Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.

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News

  • ● Interactive aggregate signatures compatible with secp256k1 (0:50)

  • ● Standardized backup for wallet descriptors (21:34)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • ● Practicality of half-aggregated schnorr signatures? (17:16)

  • ● What's the largest size OP_RETURN payload ever created? (41:17)

  • ● Non-LN explanation of pay-to-anchor? (43:29)

  • ● Up-to-date statistics about chain reorganizations? (48:08)

  • ● Are Lightning channels always P2WSH? (52:33)

  • ● Child-pays-for-parent as a defense against a double spend? (53:40)

  • ● What values does CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY hash? (59:06)

  • ● Why can't Lightning nodes opt to reveal channel balances for better routing efficiency? (59:32)

  • ● Does post-quantum require hard fork or soft fork? (1:02:27)

Releases and release candidates

Notable code and documentation changes

Transcription

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