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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #395 Recap
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.
News
● A standard for stateless VTXO verification (1:31)
● Draft BIP for expanded `nVersion` nonce space for miners (1:23:45)
Changing consensus
● Extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support (13:52)
● Hourglass V2 update (25:40)
● Algorithm agility for Bitcoin (51:15)
● The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin (1:05:15)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (1:36:53)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33616 (1:38:30)
● Bitcoin Core #34616 (1:42:23)
● Eclair #3256 (1:46:20)
● Eclair #3258 (1:48:34)
● Eclair #3255 (1:50:14)
● LDK #4402 (1:52:27)
● LND #10604 (1:53:56)
● BIPs #1699 (1:55:34)
● BIPs #2106 (1:57:30)
● BIPs #2068 (2:01:28)
● BOLTs #1301 (2:04:54)