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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #261 Recap

July 27, 2023·1h 19m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #261.


News

  • Simplified LN closing protocol (1:03)
  • LN Summit notes (10:48)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • How can I manually (on paper) calculate a Bitcoin public key from a private key? (57:18)
  • Why are there 17 native segwit versions? (59:43)
  • Does `0 OP_CSV` force the spending transaction to signal BIP125 replaceability? (1:03:04)
  • How do route hints affect pathfinding? (1:08:23)
  • What does it mean that the security of 256-bit ECDSA, and therefore Bitcoin keys, is 128 bits? (1:12:26)

Releases and release candidates

  • HWI 2.3.0 (1:15:09)
  • LDK 0.0.116 (1:16:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core GUI #740 (1:17:18)