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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #244 Recap
Published 3 years ago
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.
News
- Preventing stranded capital with multiparty channels and channel factories (1:00)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Why isn’t the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core? (28:06)
- What restrictions does the version field in the block header have? (32:23)
- What is the relation between transaction data and ids? (39:04)
- Can I request tx messages from other peers? (43:33)
- Eltoo: Does the relative locktime on the first UTXO set the lifetime of the channel? (47:34)
Releases and release candidates
- Rust Bitcoin 0.30.0 (52:23)
- LND v0.16.0-beta.rc5 (53:43)
- BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (54:16)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #27278 (54:45)
- Bitcoin Core #26531 (1:00:26)
- Core Lightning #5898 (1:03:23)
- Core Lightning #5986 (1:05:21)
- Eclair #2616 (1:07:43)
- LDK #2024 (1:10:34)
- Rust Bitcoin #1737 (1:12:43)
- BTCPay Server #4608 (1:13:03)
- BIPs #1425 (1:15:43)
- Bitcoin Inquisition #22 (1:16:51)