Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.

News

Preventing stranded capital with multiparty channels and channel factories (1:00)


Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Why isn’t the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core? (28:06)
What restrictions does the version field in the block header have? (32:23)
What is the relation between transaction data and ids? (39:04)
Can I request tx messages from other peers? (43:33)
Eltoo: Does the relative locktime on the first UTXO set the lifetime of the channel? (47:34)


Releases and release candidates

Rust Bitcoin 0.30.0 (52:23)
LND v0.16.0-beta.rc5 (53:43)
BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (54:16)


Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #27278 (54:45)
Bitcoin Core #26531 (1:00:26)
Core Lightning #5898 (1:03:23)
Core Lightning #5986 (1:05:21)
Eclair #2616 (1:07:43)
LDK #2024 (1:10:34)
Rust Bitcoin #1737 (1:12:43)
BTCPay Server #4608 (1:13:03)
BIPs #1425 (1:15:43)
Bitcoin Inquisition #22 (1:16:51)