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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #263 Recap

August 10, 2023·1h 35m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Clara Shikhelman, Peter Todd, Josie Baker, and Eduardo Quintana to discuss Newsletter #263.


Action items

  • Severe Libbitcoin Bitcoin Explorer vulnerability (1:25)

News

  • Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection design philosophy (12:00)
  • HTLC endorsement testing and data collection (18:40)
  • Proposed changes to Bitcoin Core default relay policy (28:04)
  • Libbitcoin Bitcoin Explorer security disclosure (1:25)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

  • Silent Payments: Implement BIP352 (53:57)

Releases and release candidates

  • BDK 0.28.1 (1:12:41)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #27746 (1:13:06)
  • Core Lightning #6376 (1:15:51)
  • Core Lightning #6466 (1:27:13)
  • Core Lightning #6253 (1:29:13)
  • Rust Bitcoin #1945 (1:30:01)
  • BOLTs #759 (1:32:21)