Ep. 102

Episode 102: Bitcoin Core 32.1 — Live

Nov 6, 2026

• 50min 29s

Episode description

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

Pull requests and discussion

Tor proof-of-work defenses: #33414
CJDNS support: discussion #36041 and release-note update #36202
Replacing libevent with a custom HTTP server: #35182
More inbound block-relay capacity: #28463
Fetching block inputs in parallel: #35295
Removing the experimental warning from send and sendall: #35601
Watch-only wallet exports: RPC #32489 and GUI #872
Undo-file overflow: advisory and fix #36669
TCP urgent-data memory exhaustion: advisory and fix #36665
The briefly mentioned paused-peer memory issue: advisory and fix #36667

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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