Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #360 Recap
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
News
● Fingerprinting nodes using `addr` messages (1:00 )
● Does any software use `H` in descriptors? (29:36 )
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Is there any way to block Bitcoin Knots nodes as my peers? (33:42 )
● What does OP_CAT do with integers? (42:00 )
● Async Block Relaying With Compact Block Relay (BIP152) (43:03 )
● Why is attacker revenue in selfish mining disproportional to its hash-power? (52:47 )
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 28.2 (57:51 )
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #31981 (59:21 )
● Eclair #3109 (1:00:48 )
● LND #9950 (1:01:31 )
● LDK #3868 (1:01:56 )
● LDK #3873 (1:03:10 )
● Libsecp256k1 #1678 (1:04:11 )
● BIPs #1803 (1:06:21 )
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