Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423 Recap Podcast

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

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News

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

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

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

Changes to services and client software

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

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

● EntropyLab offline key calculator ( 59:46 59:46 )

Releases and release candidates

● Eclair 0.14.3 ( 1:31:10 1:31:10 )

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35445 ( 1:33:34 1:33:34 )

● Bitcoin Core #36076 ( 1:38:51 1:38:51 )

● Bitcoin Core #36150 ( 1:42:18 1:42:18 )

● Bitcoin Core #36174 ( 1:44:37 1:44:37 )

● Bitcoin Core #34743 ( 1:46:13 1:46:13 )

● Bitcoin Core #36081 ( 1:48:07 1:48:07 )

● Bitcoin Core #35975 ( 1:48:59 1:48:59 )

● BIPs #2241 ( 1:50:04 1:50:04 )

● BIPs #2258 ( 1:53:09 1:53:09 )

● Eclair #3380 ( 1:56:33 1:56:33 )

● Eclair #3376 ( 1:57:37 1:57:37 )

● Eclair #3372 ( 2:04:34 2:04:34 )

● LND #11163 ( 2:05:57 2:05:57 )

● BDK #2246 ( 2:07:44 2:07:44 )

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