Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.

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

Action items

  • ● Move funds secured by COLDCARD-generated keys (1:07)

News

  • ● Wallets generated by COLDCARD at risk of theft (2:18)

  • ● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Core Lightning (36:26)

  • ● Proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves (49:54)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • ● What is Bitcoin's objective definition of transaction neutrality? (1:03:07)

  • ● Why does BIP110's decentralization benefit not outweigh its impact on transaction neutrality? (1:05:17)

  • ● Why does BIP110 require a 55% signaling threshold if its nodes reject non-signaling blocks? (1:09:46)

  • ● Why use ElligatorSwift encoding in BIP324? (1:17:12)

  • ● Was the OP_SUCCESSx reservation in BIP342 designed with specific opcode families in mind? (1:25:36)

  • ● What is the difference between the long-term feerate and the discard feerate? (1:29:14)

  • ● What is the quickest method for migrating a legacy wallet to a descriptor wallet on a pruned node? (1:32:40)

  • ● Is there historical data on orphan/stale block rates during high-fee periods? (1:36:09)

Releases and release candidates

Notable code and documentation changes

Transcription

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