Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #309.

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

News

• ● Estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible (1:04)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● How is the progress of Initial Block Download (IBD) calculated? (31:25)

• ● What is `progress increase per hour` during synchronization? (33:50)

• ● Should an even Y coordinate be enforced after every key-tweak operation, or only at the end? (34:45)

• ● Signet mobile phone wallets? (37:28)

• ● What block had the most transaction fees? Why? (39:01)

• ● bitcoin-cli listtransactions fee amount is way off, why? (41:48)

• ● Did uncompressed public keys use the `04` prefix before compressed public keys were used? (44:57)

• ● What happens if an HTLC's value is below the dust limit? (46:34)

• ● How does subtractfeefrom work? (47:11)

• ● What's the difference between the 3 index directories blocks/index/, bitcoin/indexes and chainstate? (51:19)

Releases and release candidates

• ● LND v0.18.1-beta (52:18)

• ● Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (53:02)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #29575 (53:29)

• ● Bitcoin Core #28984 (56:38)

• ● Core Lightning #7388 (1:00:28)

• ● LND #8734 (1:03:24)

• ● LDK #3127 (1:03:59)

• ● Rust Bitcoin #2794 (1:05:39)

• ● BDK #1395 (1:07:05)

• ● BIPs #1620 (1:08:55)

• ● BOLTs #869 (1:11:57)

Transcription

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