Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #291 Recap
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss Newsletter #291.
News
- Trustless contract for miner feerate futures (1:31)
- Coin selection for liquidity providers (7:18)
- Simple vault prototype using `OP_CAT` (21:15)
- Sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs (44:44)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Why can't nodes have the relay option to disallow certain transaction types? (49:41)
- What is the circular dependency in signing a chain of unconfirmed transactions? (53:28)
- How does Ocean’s TIDES payout scheme work? (34:02)
- What data does the Bitcoin Core wallet search for during a blockchain rescan? (57:57)
- How does transaction rebroadcasting for watch-only wallets work? (59:37)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.02 (1:02:20)
Notable code and documentation changes
- LDK #2770 (1:04:20)
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