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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #390 Recap
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.
News
● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48)
● LN-Symmetry update (26:05)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● What is stored in dbcache and with what priority? (34:21)
● Can one do a coinjoin in Shielded CSV? (24:02)
● In Bitcoin Core, how to use Tor for broadcasting new transactions only? (36:47)
● Brassard-Høyer-Tapp (BHT) algorithm and Bitcoin (BIP360) (38:31)
● Why does BitHash alternate sha256 and ripmed160? (39:24)
Releases and release candidates
● Libsecp256k1 0.7.1 (41:09)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33822 (42:59)
● Bitcoin Core #34269 (44:50)
● Core Lightning #8850 (47:38)
● LDK #4349 (49:16)
● Rust Bitcoin #5470 (50:54)
● Rust Bitcoin #5443 (51:26)
● BDK #2037 (52:51)
● BIPs #2076 (55:49)
● BIPs #1500 (59:39)