Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black to discuss ⁠Newsletter #287⁠. News Kindred replace by fee (1:10) Opposition to CTV based on commonly requiring exogenous fees (19:11) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How does block synchronization work in Bitcoin Core today? (28:14) How does headers-first prevent disk-fill attack? (30:31) Is BIP324 v2transport redundant on Tor and I2P connections? (33:57) What's a rule of thumb for setting the maximum number of connections? (34:57) Why isn't the upper bound (+2h) on the block timestamp set as a consensus rule? (37:01) Sigop count and its influence on transaction selection? (43:22) Releases and release candidates HWI 2.4.0 (48:03) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29291 (48:41) Eclair #2811 (49:23) LND #8167 (52:10) LND #7733 (53:01) LND #8275 (54:01) Rust Bitcoin #2366 (56:34) HWI #716 (58:35) BDK #1172 (58:49) BINANAs #3 (59:29)