Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss Newsletter #423.

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

News

• ● Vardiff controllers that strand slowing miners (23:06)

• ● Improvements in Utreexo initial block download (1:18)

• ● New BIP draft for unspendable internal keys (1:17:51)

Changes to services and client software

• ● BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments (1:24:09)

• ● Covenants.diy script editor (1:28:40)

• ● EntropyLab offline key calculator (59:46)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Eclair 0.14.3 (1:31:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #35445 (1:33:34)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36076 (1:38:51)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36150 (1:42:18)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36174 (1:44:37)

• ● Bitcoin Core #34743 (1:46:13)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36081 (1:48:07)

• ● Bitcoin Core #35975 (1:48:59)

• ● BIPs #2241 (1:50:04)

• ● BIPs #2258 (1:53:09)

• ● Eclair #3380 (1:56:33)

• ● Eclair #3376 (1:57:37)

• ● Eclair #3372 (2:04:34)

• ● LND #11163 (2:05:57)

• ● BDK #2246 (2:07:44)

Transcription

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