Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326.

News

• Updates to the version 1.75 channel announcements proposal (1:36 )


• Draft BIP for sending silent payments with PSBTs (16:28 )

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Duplicate blocks in blk*.dat files? (30:07 )


• How was the structure of pay-to-anchor decided? (32:45 )


• What are the benefits of decoy packets in BIP324? (36:38 )


• Why is the opcode limit 201? (39:20 )


• Will my node relay a transaction if it is below my minimum tx relay fee? (40:31 )


• Why doesn't the Bitcoin Core wallet support BIP69? (42:09 )


• How can I enable testnet4 when using Bitcoin Core 28.0? (44:50 )


• What are the risks of broadcasting a transaction that reveals a `scriptPubKey` using a low-entropy key? (47:33 )

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08.2 (52:12 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• Eclair #2925 (52:56 )


• LND #9172 (53:37 )


• Rust Bitcoin #2960 (55:47 )