The Chaincode Podcast

0xB10C – Tracepoints and monitoring the Bitcoin network

We catch up with 0xB10C about monitoring pools and tracing code execution in nodes.

Gloria Zhao and Package Relay

Gloria Zhao talks with us about her package relay proposal.

Martin Zumsande and Address Relay

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.

Sergei Tikhomirov and Lightning privacy

Postdoc Researcher Sergei joins Murch and Jonas to talk about channel balance probing in Lightning, privacy concerns in general, and the importance of researcher-developer collaboration.

Block Building with Clara and Murch

Postdoc Researcher Clara joins Murch to discuss their block building research. They cover their proposal, which outlines suggested improvements to the current Bitcoin Core block building algorithm using candidate sets.

Sanket Kanjalkar and Miniscript

Sanket describes to Murch his work on Miniscript. We explore uses for Miniscript, learn about intersections with PSBTs, Output Descriptors, and Taproot, and suss out the difference between Miniscript and Miniscript Policy.