Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #305 Recap
Update: 2024-06-04
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305.
News
- Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52 )
- Raw taproot descriptors (14:56 )
- Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02 )
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size? (1:13:32 )
- Understanding Script's number encoding, CScriptNum (1:14:18 )
- Is there a way to make a BTC wallet address public but hide how many BTC it contains? (1:16:04 )
- Testing increased feerates in regtest (1:18:05 )
- Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? (1:20:41 )
- Does a P2PKH transaction send to the hash of the uncompressed key or the compressed key? (1:21:58 )
- What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? (1:23:20 )
Releases and release candidates
Notable code and documentation changes
Comments
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