Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #313⁠.

News

• Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31 )

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Why is restructure of mempool required with cluster mempool? (29:54 )


• DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS for Bitcoin Core is 125 or 130? (36:32 )


• Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue? (38:34 )


• Is there an economic incentive to use P2WSH over P2TR? (42:26 )


• How many blocks per second can sustainably be created using a time warp attack? (45:30 )


• pkh() nested in tr() is allowed? (49:01 )


• Can a block more than a week old be considered a valid chain tip? (51:25 )


• SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY mediated tx modification (57:35 )


• Why does RBF rule #3 exist? (1:00:35 )

Releases and release candidates

• BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (1:02:05 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #30320 (1:02:58 )


• Bitcoin Core #29523 (1:07:42 )


• Core Lightning #7461 (1:10:03 )


• Eclair #2881 (1:11:06 )