Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.

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

News

• ● Fingerprinting nodes using `addr` messages (1:00)

• ● Does any software use `H` in descriptors? (29:36)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Is there any way to block Bitcoin Knots nodes as my peers? (33:42)

• ● What does OP_CAT do with integers? (42:00)

• ● Async Block Relaying With Compact Block Relay (BIP152) (43:03)

• ● Why is attacker revenue in selfish mining disproportional to its hash-power? (52:47)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 28.2 (57:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #31981 (59:21)

• ● Eclair #3109 (1:00:48)

• ● LND #9950 (1:01:31)

• ● LDK #3868 (1:01:56)

• ● LDK #3873 (1:03:10)

• ● Libsecp256k1 #1678 (1:04:11)

• ● BIPs #1803 (1:06:21)

Transcription

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