Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.News● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48) ● LN-Symmetry ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #389 Recap (00:53:51)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #389.News● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31) Changes to services and client software● ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #388 Recap (00:58:51)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss Newsletter #388.News● An overview of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core (0:43) ● BIP pro...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #387 Recap (01:24:23)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #387.News● Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug (0:55) ● Using Ark as a ch...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #386 Recap (02:02:17)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov to discuss Newsletter #386.News● Building a vault using blinded co-signers (1:04:09) ● P...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special Recap (03:42:37)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Rearden Code, and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special.January● Updated ChillDKG draft (43:08) ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #384 Recap (01:12:55)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #384.News● Critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0 (0:59) ●...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #383 Recap (01:20:37)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Moonsettler and Julian to discuss Newsletter #383.News● Consensus bug in NBitcoin library (1:04) Changing consensus● LNHANCE...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #382 Recap (01:05:34)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #382.News● Stats on compact block reconstructions updates (0:34) ● Motion to activate BIP3 (7:26) Selected Q&A from B...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #381 Recap (01:36:28)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #381.News● Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centraliz...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #380 Recap (00:44:04)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.Releases and release candidates● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc4 (1:30) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #379 Recap (02:07:25)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.News● Comparing performance ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #378 Recap (01:02:37)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.News● CPU DoS from unconfirmed transaction processing (1:00) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Why was -datacarriersize redefined ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #377 Recap (00:55:28)
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss Newsletter #377.News● Detecting block template feerate increases using cluster mempool (1:0...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #376 Recap (00:38:54)
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Francesco Madonna and supertestnet to discuss Newsletter #376.News● Continued discussion of block template sharing (17:30) ● B-SSL a Secure Bitcoin...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #375 Recap (01:02:37)
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj, and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #375.News● Optimal Threshold Signatures (1:56) ● Flattening certain nested ...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #374 Recap (00:46:12)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #374.Changing consensus● Draft BIPs for Script Restoration (0:40) Releases and release candidates● Bitco...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #373 Recap (01:44:30)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Daniela Brozzoni, and Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #373.News● Eclair vulnerability (18:50) ● Research into feerate se...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #372 Recap (01:26:56)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.News● LSP-funded redundant overpayments (16:24) ● Partitioning and eclipse attacks us...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #371 Recap (01:00:50)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #370.News● Provable Cryptography Workbook (0:48) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Co...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #370 Recap (01:05:57)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.Changing consensus● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56)...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #368 Recap (01:07:15)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.News● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30) ● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07) Changes to services and client softwar...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #369 Recap (01:08:11)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.News● Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (24:56) ● Garbled lock...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #367 Recap (00:23:38)
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #367.Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (0:19) ● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (0:46) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitco...
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #366 Recap (01:43:44)
Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366.News● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03) ● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum rel...
