Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #395 Recap

March 11
2h 7m

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Episode 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)

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