Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Andreas Kouloumos to discuss Newsletter #219.

The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0

News

• ● LN fee ratecards (0:51)

• ● Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft forks on signet (11:35)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Is it possible to determine whether an HD wallet was used to create a given transaction? (34:10)

• ● Why is there a 5-day gap between the genesis block and block 1? (38:08)

• ● Is it possible to set RBF as always-on in bitcoind? (42:09)

• ● Why would I need to ban peer nodes on the Bitcoin network? (45:53)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Core Lightning 0.12.1 (49:06)

• ● Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC1 (49:17)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #26116 (59:05)

• ● Core Lightning #5594 (1:00:04)

• ● Core Lightning #5315 (1:01:02)

• ● Rust Bitcoin #1258 (1:04:09)

Transcription

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