Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326.

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

News

• ● Updates to the version 1.75 channel announcements proposal (1:36)

• ● Draft BIP for sending silent payments with PSBTs (16:28)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Duplicate blocks in blk*.dat files? (30:07)

• ● How was the structure of pay-to-anchor decided? (32:45)

• ● What are the benefits of decoy packets in BIP324? (36:38)

• ● Why is the opcode limit 201? (39:20)

• ● Will my node relay a transaction if it is below my minimum tx relay fee? (40:31)

• ● Why doesn't the Bitcoin Core wallet support BIP69? (42:09)

• ● How can I enable testnet4 when using Bitcoin Core 28.0? (44:50)

• ● What are the risks of broadcasting a transaction that reveals a `scriptPubKey` using a low-entropy key? (47:33)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Core Lightning 24.08.2 (52:12)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Eclair #2925 (52:56)

• ● LND #9172 (53:37)

• ● Rust Bitcoin #2960 (55:47)

Transcription

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