Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #210 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen to discuss Newsletter #210.
The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
News
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
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● Why do invalid signatures in `OP_CHECKSIGADD` not push to the stack? (30:41)
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● What are packages in Bitcoin Core and what is their use case? (34:17)
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● How much blockspace would it take to spend the complete UTXO set? (37:43)
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● Does an uneconomical output need to be kept in the UTXO set? (39:37)
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● Is there code in libsecp256k1 that should be moved to the Bitcoin Core codebase? (47:07)
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● Mining stale low-difficulty blocks as a DoS attack (48:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
Transcription
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