Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #343.

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News

• ● Ignoring unsolicited transactions (0:30)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● What’s the rationale for how the loadtxsoutset RPC is set up? (19:52)

• ● Are there classes of pinning attacks that RBF rule #3 makes impossible? (23:41)

• ● Unexpected locktime values (25:38)

• ● Why is it necessary to reveal a bit in a script path spend and check that it matches the parity of the Y coordinate of Q? (28:42)

• ● Why does Bitcoin Core use checkpoints and not the assumevalid block? (32:19)

• ● How does Bitcoin Core handle long reorgs? (36:58)

• ● What is the definition of discard feerate? (37:59)

• ● Policy to miniscript compiler (40:37)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Core Lightning 25.02rc3 (43:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Core Lightning #8116 (43:34)

• ● Core Lightning #8095 (46:06)

• ● Core Lightning #7772 (47:53)

• ● Core Lightning #8094 (48:31)

• ● Eclair #2993 (51:38)

• ● LND #9491 (53:14)

Transcription

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