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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #299 Recap

April 25, 2024·49m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠.


News

  • Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56)
  • BIP editors update (20:08)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • Where exactly is the off-by-one difficulty bug? (26:44)
  • How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective? (32:10)
  • Are replacement transactions larger in size than their predecessors and than non-RBF transactions? (34:15)
  • Are Bitcoin signatures still vulnerable to nonce reuse? (36:59)
  • How do miners manually add transactions to a block template? (39:48)

Releases and release candidates

  • LND v0.17.5-beta (41:40)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #29850 (46:35)