Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #279.

News

Update to the liquidity ads specification (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Is the Schnorr digital signature scheme a multisignature interactive scheme, and also not an aggregated non-interactive scheme? (38:49)
Is it advisable to operate a release candidate full node on mainnet? (41:40)
What is the relation between nLockTime and nSequence? (44:40)
What would happen if we provide to OP_CHECKMULTISIG more than threshold number (m) of signatures? (52:18)
What is (mempool) policy? (54:30)
What does Pay to Contract (P2C) mean? (57:31)
Can a non-segwit transaction be serialized in the segwit format? (58:18)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 23.11 (1:00:05)
Bitcoin Core 26.0rc3 (1:03:31)

Notable code and documentation changes

Rust Bitcoin #2213 (1:04:55)
BDK #1190 (1:09:04)