Bitcoin, Explained — The Technical Side of Bitcoin

Episode 102: Bitcoin Core 32.1 — Live

Aaron and Sjors discuss Bitcoin Core 32.1 and its updated security disclosure policy in this live conference recording, followed by audience questions. Links Bitcoin Core 32.1 release announcement and release notes Bitco...

2026-11-06

Episode notes

Aaron and Sjors discuss Bitcoin Core 32.1 and its updated security disclosure policy in this live conference recording, followed by audience questions.


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Pull requests and discussion



Chapters


00:00:00 Live introduction

00:05:00 Tor proof-of-work defenses and CJDNS

00:12:06 Removing libevent: dependencies and the RPC server

00:15:40 More inbound block-relay connections

00:19:16 Faster validation with parallel input fetching

00:25:16 Wallet RPCs and watch-only exports

00:28:59 AI and the security disclosure policy

00:34:19 Undo-file overflow and chain reorganizations

00:41:15 TCP urgent data and memory exhaustion

00:48:11 Audience Q&A: watch-only wallets and descriptors


Aaron’s Nostr: npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5


Sjors’ Nostr: npub1v25jqj332n630klwtqeqxgyrjl4alw4phmluhu2x6lcxzwy9m03suqexw3


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