Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss ⁠Newsletter #315⁠.

News

• Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24 )


• Block withholding attacks and potential solutions (17:21 )


• Statistics on compact block reconstruction (21:47 )


• Replacement cycle attack against pay-to-anchor (36:23 )


• Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures (42:24 )


• Optimistic verification of zero-knowledge proofs using CAT, MATT, and Elftrace (50:40 )

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (33:15 )

Releases and release candidates

• Libsecp256k1 0.5.1 (53:11 )


• BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:43 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #30493 (54:38 )


• Bitcoin Core #30285 (57:33 )


• Bitcoin Core #30352 (1:02:26 )


• Bitcoin Core #29775 (1:02:39 )


• Core Lightning #7476 (1:08:21 )


• Eclair #2884 (1:08:55 )


• LND #8952 (1:12:10 )


• LND #8735 (1:13:40 )


• BIPs #1601 (1:14:44 )