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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #378 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.
News
● CPU DoS from unconfirmed transaction processing (1:00)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Why was -datacarriersize redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (17:53)
● What is the smallest valid transaction that can be included in a block? (22:59)
● Why does Bitcoin Core continue to give witness data a discount even when it is used for inscriptions? (25:38)
● The ever-growing Bitcoin blockchain size? (39:17)
● I read that OP_TEMPLATEHASH is a variant of OP_CTV. How do they differ? (44:59)
Releases and release candidates
● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc1 (49:59)
● Eclair 0.13.1 (50:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #29640 (51:21)
● Core Lightning #8400 (54:15)
● Eclair #3173 (54:53)
● LND #10280 (56:56)
● BIPs #2006 (57:27)
● BIPs #1975 (1:00:58)
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