Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #382⁠.

News

● Stats on compact block reconstructions updates (0:34 )

● Motion to activate BIP3 (7:26 )

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Do pruned nodes store witness inscriptions? (24:27 )

● Increasing probability of block hash collisions when difficulty is too high (29:33 )

● What is the purpose of the initial 0x04 byte in all extended public and private keys? (33:25 )

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.20.0-beta (34:57 )

● Core Lightning v25.12rc1 (35:57 )

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33872 (37:55 )

● Bitcoin Core #33629 (42:05 )

● Core Lightning #8677 (49:49 )

● Core Lightning #8546 (51:28 )

● Core Lightning #8682 (53:19 )

● LDK #4197 (55:39 )

● LDK #4234 (1:00:56 )

● LDK #4148 (1:02:17 )

● BDK #2027 (1:03:04 )