Podcast website: https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/02...
This is our first **Chaincode Decoded Podcast**. In this new podcast format, we'll dive into the details of a concept we've talked about on previous shows. No guests, no news, just Jonas and John talking about Bitcoin.

In the first episode, we talk about the UTXO set.

Ultraprune (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pu...) - [episode 1](https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/01...) (1:20)
AssumeUTXO (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/is...) - episode 4 (https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/02...) (1:28)
The cache layer (8:02)
dbcache parameter (9:48)
John talks about latency comparisons on a human scale (https://www.prowesscorp.com/computer-....
(Note: He incorrectly says that 1 second for RAM access equates to "months or years" for disk access. Actually, 4 minutes for RAM access equates to 1-9 months for disk access.)
Different ideas on how to keep track of the UTXO set (11:29)
utreexo (https://dci.mit.edu/utreexo) (13:48)
What’s the future of the size of the UTXO set? (13:54)
UTXO consolidation (15:02)
UTXO selection (16:48)
Murch’s thesis on coin selection Branch and bound (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pu....

H/T to Amiti (  / amizi  ) for the idea of the format. Thanks as always to Matthew Zipkin (  / matthewzipkin  ) for the sound engineering.