Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss ⁠Newsletter #318⁠.

News

• New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48 )

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03 )


• Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13 )


• Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35 )


• Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28 )


• How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13 )


• Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25 )


• How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29 )

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45 )


• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13 )


• BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43 )


• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• LDK #3263 (48:15 )


• LDK #3247 (49:10 )


• BDK #1569 (50:13 )