Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #322.

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

News

  • ● Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01)

  • ● Hybrid jamming mitigation testing and changes (17:51)

  • ● Shielded client-side validation (CSV) (25:28)

  • ● Draft of updated BIP process (48:47)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • ● What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order? (54:31)

  • ● Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting? (55:42)

  • ● What do I need to have set up to have `getblocktemplate` work? (58:19)

  • ● Can a silent payment address body be brute forced? (1:00:02)

  • ● Why does a tx fail `testmempoolaccept` BIP125 replacement but is accepted by `submitpackage`? (1:01:38)

  • ● How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer? (1:03:53)

Releases and release candidates

Notable code and documentation changes

Transcription

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