Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.

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

News

• ● Hornet Node's declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules (1:02)

• ● Onion message jamming in the Lightning Network (23:22)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Why did BIP342 replace CHECKMULTISIG with a new opcode, instead of just removing FindAndDelete from it? (40:53)

• ● Does SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT commit to the tapleaf hash or the full taproot merkle path? (43:28)

• ● What does the BIP86 tweak guarantee in a MuSig2 Lightning channel, beyond address format? (45:23)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 31.0 (47:10)

• ● Core Lightning 26.04 (54:26)

• ● LND 0.21.0-beta.rc1 (56:29)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #33477 (57:55)

• ● Bitcoin Core #35006 (1:02:26)

• ● BIPs #1895 (1:04:31)

• ● BIPs #2142 (1:12:47)

• ● LDK #4555 (1:15:03)

• ● LND #10713 (1:16:23)

• ● LND #10754 (1:18:02)

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