Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Gregory Sanders, and Sergej Kotliar to discuss Newsletter #223.

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

News

• ● Continued discussion about full RBF (1:33)

• ● CoreDev.tech transcripts (53:38)

• ● Ephemeral anchors (1:09:44)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Why would someone use a 1-of-1 multisig? (1:23:48)

• ● Why would a transaction have a locktime in the year 1987? (1:24:12)

• ● What is the size limit on the UTXO set, if any? (1:24:48)

• ● Why is `-blockmaxweight` set to 3996000 by default? (1:25:31)

• ● Can a miner open a Lightning channel with a coinbase output? (1:26:40)

• ● What is the history on how previous soft forks were tested prior to being considered for activation? (1:27:44)

Releases and release candidates

• ● LDK 0.0.112 (1:28:27)

• ● Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (1:28:44)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #23443 (1:29:17)

• ● Eclair #2463 (1:31:38)

Transcription

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