Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270.

News

• Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42)
• Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48)
• Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56)
• Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56)
• Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50)
• When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54)
• Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13)
• Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49)
• Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18)
• Core Lightning #6311 (46:30)
• Core Lightning #6617 (47:23)
• Core Lightning #6686 (47:55)
• Eclair #2613 (48:44)
• LND #7994 (50:18)
• LDK #2547 (51:10)
• LDK #2534 (53:01)