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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #274 Recap
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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Fabian Jahr, Ethan Heilman, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #274.
News
Replacement cycling vulnerability against HTLCs (1:40)
Bitcoin UTXO set summary hash replacement (24:21)
Research into generic covenants with minimal Script language changes (40:02)
Proposed BIP for OP_CAT (45:38)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
How does the Branch and Bound coin selection algorithm work? (52:17)
Why is each transaction broadcast twice in the Bitcoin network? (54:29)
Why are OP_MUL and OP_DIV disabled in Bitcoin? (56:57)
Why are hashSequence and hashPrevouts computed separately? (58:56)
Why does Miniscript add an extra size check for hash preimage comparisons? (59:52)
How can the next block fee be less than the mempool purging fee rate? (1:00:51)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 25.1 (1:12:00)
Bitcoin Core 24.2 (1:12:00)
Bitcoin Core 26.0rc1 (1:14:23)
News
Replacement cycling vulnerability against HTLCs (1:40)
Bitcoin UTXO set summary hash replacement (24:21)
Research into generic covenants with minimal Script language changes (40:02)
Proposed BIP for OP_CAT (45:38)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
How does the Branch and Bound coin selection algorithm work? (52:17)
Why is each transaction broadcast twice in the Bitcoin network? (54:29)
Why are OP_MUL and OP_DIV disabled in Bitcoin? (56:57)
Why are hashSequence and hashPrevouts computed separately? (58:56)
Why does Miniscript add an extra size check for hash preimage comparisons? (59:52)
How can the next block fee be less than the mempool purging fee rate? (1:00:51)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 25.1 (1:12:00)
Bitcoin Core 24.2 (1:12:00)
Bitcoin Core 26.0rc1 (1:14:23)
Released:
Oct 26, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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