Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, Gregory Sanders, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #348.

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News

• ● Educational and experimental-based secp256k1 implementation (1:09)

Changing consensus

• ● Should vulnerable bitcoins be destroyed? (9:17)

• ● Securely proving UTXO ownership by revealing a SHA256 preimage (34:52)

• ● Draft BIP for destroying quantum-insecure bitcoins (44:01)

• ● Criticism of CTV motivation (51:16)

• ● CTV+CSFS benefits (1:06:02)

• ● Benefit of CTV to Ark users (1:24:37)

• ● OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY semantics (1:31:49)

• ● Draft BIP published for consensus cleanup (1:58:29)

Releases and release candidates

• ● BDK wallet 1.2.0 (2:06:03)

• ● LDK v0.1.2 (2:06:48)

• ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (2:07:13)

• ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc1 (2:08:36)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #31363 (2:09:03)

• ● Bitcoin Core #31278 (2:09:44)

• ● Eclair #3050 (2:12:41)

• ● Eclair #2963 (2:13:54)

• ● Eclair #3045 (2:14:44)

• ● LDK #3670 (2:15:47)

• ● LND #9620 (2:16:24)

Transcription

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