Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.

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

News

• ● Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11)

• ● Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00)

• ● Insights into channel depletion (18:12)

• ● Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14)

• ● Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49)

• ● Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• ● Track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution (48:18)

Changes to services and client software

• ● Java-based HWI released (1:00:32)

• ● Saving Satoshi Bitcoin development education game announced (1:01:24)

• ● Neovim Bitcoin Script plugin (1:02:19)

• ● Proton Wallet adds RBF (1:03:36)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● How long does Bitcoin Core store forked chains? (1:03:51)

• ● What is the point of solo mining pools? (1:05:02)

• ● Is there a point to using P2TR over P2WSH if I only want to use the script path? (1:11:17)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Core Lightning 24.11 (1:13:23)

• ● BTCPay Server 2.0.4 (1:16:59)

• ● LND 0.18.4-beta.rc2 (1:17:23)

• ● Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (1:17:44)

• ● BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 (1:18:36)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #31096 (1:18:58)

• ● Bitcoin Core #31175 (1:19:51)

• ● Bitcoin Core #31112 (1:21:37)

• ● LDK #3446 (1:22:56)

• ● Rust Bitcoin #3682 (1:26:13)

• ● BTCPay Server #5743 (1:27:17)

• ● BDK #1756 (1:30:23)

• ● BIPs #1535 (1:31:12)

• ● BOLTs #1180 (1:32:33)

Transcription

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