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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #210 Recap
Published 3 years, 8 months ago
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen to discuss Newsletter #210.
News
- Multiformat single-sig message signing (2:05)
- Proof of micro-burn (9:43)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Why do invalid signatures in `OP_CHECKSIGADD` not push to the stack? (30:41)
- What are packages in Bitcoin Core and what is their use case? (34:17)
- How much blockspace would it take to spend the complete UTXO set? (37:43)
- Does an uneconomical output need to be kept in the UTXO set? (39:37)
- Is there code in libsecp256k1 that should be moved to the Bitcoin Core codebase? (47:07)
- Mining stale low-difficulty blocks as a DoS attack (48:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #25351 (51:42)
- Core Lightning #5370 (53:51)
- BOLTs #1001 (56:25)