Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #287 Recap
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black to discuss Newsletter #287.
News
- Kindred replace by fee (1:10)
- Opposition to CTV based on commonly requiring exogenous fees (19:11)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- How does block synchronization work in Bitcoin Core today? (28:14)
- How does headers-first prevent disk-fill attack? (30:31)
- Is BIP324 v2transport redundant on Tor and I2P connections? (33:57)
- What's a rule of thumb for setting the maximum number of connections? (34:57)
- Why isn't the upper bound (+2h) on the block timestamp set as a consensus rule? (37:01)
- Sigop count and its influence on transaction selection? (43:22)
Releases and release candidates
- HWI 2.4.0 (48:03)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #29291 (48:41)
- Eclair #2811 (49:23)
- LND #8167 (52:10)
- LND #7733 (53:01)
- LND #8275 (54:01)
- Rust Bitcoin #2366 (56:34)
- HWI #716 (58:35)
- BDK #1172 (58:49)
- BINANAs #3 (59:29)
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