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The Chaincode Podcast

Chaincode Labs

A podcast about Bitcoin protocol development

Episodes

20 of 34 episodes

Rusty Russell and privacy and robustness in Lightning - episode 34

Rusty drops by to tell us about why privacy and robustness should be prioritized in Lightning. We discuss: LN symmetry (04:39) Do we want LN...

00:48:36Aug 9, 2023

Elle Mouton⁠, Oliver Gugger⁠ and Simple Taproot Channels - Episode 33

Elle Mouton and Oliver Gugger join us to talk with us about the Simple Taproot Channel proposal. We cover: Simple Taproot Channels Overview...

00:37:18Jul 17, 2023

Alekos Filini, Daniela Brozzoni and the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) - Episode 32

Alekos Filini and Daniela Brozzoni visit the podcast to discuss the Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) . Hang out with them on the BDK Discord ....

00:31:25May 25, 2023

Tadge Dryja and Lightning History and everything else - Episode 31

Tadge Dryja chats with us about writing the Lightning Network paper and working in the Bitcoin space. We discussed: Could blocks be bigger?...

00:57:19Mar 22, 2023

Andrew Chow and the Bitcoin Core Wallet - Episode 30

Andrew Chow joins us to discuss Bitcoin Core wallet development, PSBT, Output Descriptors, and HWI. We cover: - Why do we need a wallet in B...

00:40:36Mar 10, 2023

Greg Sanders, SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT, ephemeral anchors and LN symmetry (ELTOO) - Episode 29

Greg Sanders joins us to discuss ANYPREVOUT, ephemeral anchors and LN symmetry (a.k.a. ELTOO). We chat about: - Package relay (2:07) - Pinni...

00:48:35Feb 15, 2023

Sergi Delgado and Watchtowers, Lightning Privacy - Episode 28

Sergi Delgado joins us to discuss Watchtowers, his prior work in Bitcoin and Lightning privacy, Python vs. Rust and the impact of Eltoo. We...

00:59:25Feb 2, 2023

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing - Nesting, ROAST, Half-Aggregation, Adaptor Signatures (part 2)

We continue the conversation with Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing and Nesting, ROAST, Half-Aggregation, Adaptor Signatures, atomic swaps and m...

00:52:43Dec 27, 2022

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing, Schnorr, MuSig, FROST and more - Episode 26

Pieter Wuille and Tim Ruffing treat us to a conversation about Schnorr, multi-signatures, MuSig, and more. We covered a lot so this is part...

00:52:32Dec 16, 2022

Clara Shikhelman and Sergei Tikhomirov and Channel Jamming on the Lightning Network - Episode 25

Clara and Sergei stop by to chat about their recent proposal on mitigating jamming attacks in the Lightning Network. We talk unconditional f...

00:44:12Nov 23, 2022

Josibake, the Bitcoin Core wallet and wrangling bitcoin data - episode 24

Josibake joins us to talk about his work on the Bitcoin Core wallet, bitcoin data and onboarding to bitcoin development. We discussed: - Ana...

00:34:33Oct 21, 2022

Steve Lee and Lightning updates / Stratum V2 - Episode 23

Our topics: - Lightning Dev Kit (1:04) - Zeroconf Channels (2:22) - Rapid Gossip Sync (3:46) - How does LDK pick priorities? (8:55) - LDK Li...

00:43:24Sep 28, 2022

0xB10C – Tracepoints and monitoring the Bitcoin network

We catch up with 0xB10C about monitoring pools and tracing code execution in nodes. Our topics: - What he's been up to since the residency (...

00:25:09Jun 6, 2022

Gloria Zhao and Package Relay - Episode 21

Gloria Zhao sits down with us to discuss her package relay proposal and what it is like as a relative newcomer to propose a big change. - Wh...

00:26:11May 24, 2022

Martin Zumsande and Address Relay - Episode 20

Martin Zumsande joins us to tell us about the address spam in the summer of 2021 and his interests in AddrRelay and Bitcoin Core development...

00:31:50May 13, 2022

Sergei Tikhomirov and Lightning privacy - Episode 19

Postdoc Researcher Sergei joins Murch and Jonas to talk about channel balance probing in Lightning, privacy concerns in general, and the imp...

01:00:30Feb 17, 2022

Block Building with Clara and Murch - Episode 18

Postdoc Researcher Clara joins Murch to discuss their block building research. They cover their proposal , which outlines suggested improvem...

00:48:47Feb 1, 2022

Sanket Kanjalkar and Miniscript - Episode 17

Sanket describes to Murch his work on Miniscript. We explore uses for Miniscript, learn about intersections with PSBTs, Output Descriptors,...

00:45:06Nov 11, 2021

Pieter Wuille & Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 16

P2P experts Pieter and Amiti chat about the P2P network. In this episode they cover: - AddrRelay high-level goals and constraints (1:15) - V...

00:41:24Oct 26, 2021

Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 15

Amiti returns to the Chaincode office to discuss all things p2p. We discuss: Why Amiti works on P2P (1:50) A framework for p2p design (4:25)...

00:41:08Oct 18, 2021