Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #261 Recap
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #261.
News
- Simplified LN closing protocol (1:03)
- LN Summit notes (10:48)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- How can I manually (on paper) calculate a Bitcoin public key from a private key? (57:18)
- Why are there 17 native segwit versions? (59:43)
- Does `0 OP_CSV` force the spending transaction to signal BIP125 replaceability? (1:03:04)
- How do route hints affect pathfinding? (1:08:23)
- What does it mean that the security of 256-bit ECDSA, and therefore Bitcoin keys, is 128 bits? (1:12:26)
Releases and release candidates
- HWI 2.3.0 (1:15:09)
- LDK 0.0.116 (1:16:37)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core GUI #740 (1:17:18)
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