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2022 First episode About Bitcoin Optech Podcast Join Bitcoin Optech as we discuss Bitcoin and Lightning technology each week and review our newsletters.
https://bitcoinops.org/
Publisher Bitcoin Optech
Category news
Language en
Explicit No
First episode 27 Jul 2022
Latest episode 4 Nov 2026 Latest episodes 223 episodes in the feed.
4 Nov 2026
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #429 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elias Rohrer, Greg Sanders, Antoine Poinsot, Oleksandr Kurbatov, and Nishant Bansal to discuss Newsletter #429 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/30/).
News
● Silent payments for multiparty wallets (41:18)
● CLN self-referential channel announcement DoS disclosure (52:57)
● Bitcoin Core security policy update (24:53)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Why does Bitcoin use both a transaction ID and a witness transaction ID? (1:02:58)
● How to sign a MuSig with Bitcoin Core (1:07:54)
● What changed in Bitcoin P2P protocol version 70017 compared to 70016? (1:09:11)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 32.1 (35:56)
● Bitcoin Core 31.2 (39:18)
● Bitcoin Core 30.4 (40:42)
● Bitcoin Core 29.5 (40:53)
● Eclair 0.14.6 (1:12:37)
● LND v0.21.5-beta (1:13:36)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #36665 (3:43)
● Bitcoin Core #36667 (14:37)
● Bitcoin Core #36669 (19:02)
● BIPs #2130 (1:15:55)
● Core Lightning #9627 (1:17:33)
● Eclair #3417 (1:19:13)
● Eclair #3416 (1:26:02)
● LDK #5314 (1:28:48)
● LDK #5412 (1:31:27)
● LND #11164 (1:33:28)
● LND #11373 (1:36:17)
● BTCPay Server #7744 (1:38:59)
28 Oct 2026
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #428 Recap Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Adam Gibson, Vincenzo Palazzo, and João Dias to discuss Newsletter #428 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/23/).
News
● Trust-minimized exits from a single-issuer layer 2 (1:32)
● Descriptor syntax for hash preimages (18:03)
Changes to services and client software
● Ibis Wallet v5.0-beta released (26:31)
● Landfall wallet for Lightning mining payouts (28:57)
● rbitcoin 0.8.0 released (38:44)
Releases and release candidates
● Eclair 0.14.4 (43:18)
● BDK chain 0.23.4 (45:37)
● LND v0.21.5-beta.rc1 (47:09)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Eclair #3409 (50:16)
● Eclair #3411 (52:20)
● LDK #5126 (55:03)
● LND #10919 (56:19)
● BTCPay Server #7679 (1:01:06)
● BTCPay Server #7684 (1:02:39)
● BDK #2325 (1:04:18)
● BOLTs #1357 (1:07:13)
● BOLTs #1352 (1:10:03)
20 Oct 2026
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #427 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Erick Cestari and Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #427 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/10/16/).
News
● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities fixed in Eclair v0.14.1 (0:53)
● Offchain contracts in Lightning channels (12:57)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 32.0rc4 (43:15)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Eclair #3396 (49:25)
● Eclair #3399 (53:23)
● Eclair #3395 (57:23)
● Eclair #3401 (59:09)
● LDK #5080 (1:01:03)
● LDK #5087 (1:02:46)
● LND #11068 (1:05:04)
● Rust Bitcoin #6956 (1:07:44)
● BDK #2319 (1:10:22)
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