Episode notes
Aaron and Sjors discuss Bitcoin Core 32.1 and its updated security disclosure policy in this live conference recording, followed by audience questions.
Links
Pull requests and discussion
- Tor proof-of-work defenses: #33414
- CJDNS support: discussion #36041 and release-note update #36202
- Replacing libevent with a custom HTTP server: #35182
- More inbound block-relay capacity: #28463
- Fetching block inputs in parallel: #35295
- Removing the experimental warning from send and sendall: #35601
- Watch-only wallet exports: RPC #32489 and GUI #872
- Undo-file overflow: advisory and fix #36669
- TCP urgent-data memory exhaustion: advisory and fix #36665
- The briefly mentioned paused-peer memory issue: advisory and fix #36667
Chapters
00:00:00 Live introduction
00:05:00 Tor proof-of-work defenses and CJDNS
00:12:06 Removing libevent: dependencies and the RPC server
00:15:40 More inbound block-relay connections
00:19:16 Faster validation with parallel input fetching
00:25:16 Wallet RPCs and watch-only exports
00:28:59 AI and the security disclosure policy
00:34:19 Undo-file overflow and chain reorganizations
00:41:15 TCP urgent data and memory exhaustion
00:48:11 Audience Q&A: watch-only wallets and descriptors
Aaron’s Nostr: npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5
Sjors’ Nostr: npub1v25jqj332n630klwtqeqxgyrjl4alw4phmluhu2x6lcxzwy9m03suqexw3
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