Securing Bitcoin: The Importance of Software Updates

Joining me is Antoine (@darosior), to discuss the latest developments around Liana and the growing importance of inheritance planning. We also delve into The Great Consensus clean up, important bug fixes and disclosure of Bitcoin core vulnerabilities. 

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro

(00:40) - The latest developments with Liana

(02:16) - Inheritance planning with Liana

(05:59) - What is The Great Consensus Clean up?

(07:30) - What is the Timewarp bug?

(15:51) - What would it take to fix the bug?

(19:08) - Sponsors

(21:08) - The Block Validation Problem

(28:46) - The way forward with the fixes

(31:23) - Sponsors

(32:34) - Bitcoin core vulnerabilities

(44:10) - Lesson from disclosures of Bitcoin core vulnerabilities

(47:28) - Closing thoughts 

Links: 

• https://x.com/darosior 

• https://wizardsardine.com/liana/ 

• https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710 

• https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/07/03/disclose-bip70-crash/ 

Sponsors:

• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

• Mempool.space

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