Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.

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News

• ● A standard for stateless VTXO verification (1:31)

• ● Draft BIP for expanded `nVersion` nonce space for miners (1:23:45)

Changing consensus

• ● Extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support (13:52)

• ● Hourglass V2 update (25:40)

• ● Algorithm agility for Bitcoin (51:15)

• ● The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin (1:05:15)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (1:36:53)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #33616 (1:38:30)

• ● Bitcoin Core #34616 (1:42:23)

• ● Eclair #3256 (1:46:20)

• ● Eclair #3258 (1:48:34)

• ● Eclair #3255 (1:50:14)

• ● LDK #4402 (1:52:27)

• ● LND #10604 (1:53:56)

• ● BIPs #1699 (1:55:34)

• ● BIPs #2106 (1:57:30)

• ● BIPs #2068 (2:01:28)

• ● BOLTs #1301 (2:04:54)

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