Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss ⁠Newsletter #322⁠.

News

• Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01 )


• Hybrid jamming mitigation testing and changes (17:51 )


• Shielded client-side validation (CSV) (25:28 )


• Draft of updated BIP process (48:47 )

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order? (54:31 )


• Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting? (55:42 )


• What do I need to have set up to have `getblocktemplate` work? (58:19 )


• Can a silent payment address body be brute forced? (1:00:02 )


• Why does a tx fail `testmempoolaccept` BIP125 replacement but is accepted by `submitpackage`? (1:01:38 )


• How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer? (1:03:53 )

Releases and release candidates

• BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (1:06:41 )


• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (1:06:57 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• Eclair #2909 (1:10:15 )


• LND #9095 (1:11:12 )


• LND #8044 (1:11:55 )