Episode notes
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors explain what new features are included in the upcoming Bitcoin Core 0.26 release. They also briefly discuss recent developments concerning the transaction inclusion policy of mining pool F2Pool, which appears to have been compliant with the OFAC sanctions list.
Link to testing guide: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/26.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide
Chapters
00:00:00 F2Pool transaction censorship and OFAC sanctions
00:10:14 Bitcoin Core 26.0 release and testing
00:12:37 Peer-to-peer transport encryption
00:18:33 AssumeUTXO and faster node setup
00:22:28 Network diversity and eclipse protection
00:26:47 Taproot Miniscript support
00:32:24 submitpackage and the path to package relay
