Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #322 Recap

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #322 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss ⁠Newsletter #322⁠.

News

  • Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01)
  • Hybrid jamming mitigation testing and changes (17:51)
  • Shielded client-side validation (CSV) (25:28)
  • Draft of updated BIP process (48:47)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

  • What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order? (54:31)
  • Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting? (55:42)
  • What do I need to have set up to have `getblocktemplate` work? (58:19)
  • Can a silent payment address body be brute forced? (1:00:02)
  • Why does a tx fail `testmempoolaccept` BIP125 replacement but is accepted by `submitpackage`? (1:01:38)
  • How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer? (1:03:53)

Releases and release candidates

  • BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (1:06:41)
  • Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (1:06:57)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Eclair #2909 (1:10:15)
  • LND #9095 (1:11:12)
  • LND #8044 (1:11:55)

Activity

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