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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #365 Recap

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #365 Recap

Update: 2025-08-06
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.


News

● Testing compact block prefilling (1:13:00 )

● Mempool-based fee estimation library (1:33:53 )


Changing consensus

● Migration from quantum-vulnerable outputs (49:17 )

● Taproot-native `OP_TEMPLATEHASH` proposal (1:13 )

● Proposal to allow longer relative timelocks (12:57 )

● Security against quantum computers with taproot as a commitment scheme (23:48 )


Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (1:46:55 )


Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #29954 (1:48:12 )

● Bitcoin Core #33004 (1:49:13 )

● LDK #3246 (1:52:37 )

● LDK #3892 (1:53:35 )

● LDK #3662 (1:54:31 )

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