Episode notes
In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss the newly released Bitcoin Core 0.21.0. Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 is the 21st and latest major release of the Bitcoin Core software, the oldest and most important Bitcoin node implementation, which is often also regarded as the reference implementation for the Bitcoin protocol.
Chapters
00:00:00 Bitcoin Core 0.21 and transaction rebroadcast privacy
00:04:50 Tor v3 support
00:05:45 Anchor connections against eclipse attacks
00:06:48 Serving compact block filters
00:09:25 Signet and testing Taproot
00:14:54 BIP339 witness transaction ID relay
00:18:57 RPC and ZeroMQ interfaces
00:22:00 The send RPC and hardware-wallet progress
00:24:59 Descriptor wallets and SQLite
00:29:19 Fee units, contributors and upgrading
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