Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen to discuss Newsletter #210.

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News

  • ● Multiformat single-sig message signing (2:05)

  • ● Proof of micro-burn (9:43)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • ● Why do invalid signatures in `OP_CHECKSIGADD` not push to the stack? (30:41)

  • ● What are packages in Bitcoin Core and what is their use case? (34:17)

  • ● How much blockspace would it take to spend the complete UTXO set? (37:43)

  • ● Does an uneconomical output need to be kept in the UTXO set? (39:37)

  • ● Is there code in libsecp256k1 that should be moved to the Bitcoin Core codebase? (47:07)

  • ● Mining stale low-difficulty blocks as a DoS attack (48:32)

Notable code and documentation changes

Transcription

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