Bitcoin Optech helps Bitcoin users and businesses integrate scaling technologies.
We provide weekly newsletters, a podcast, case studies and announcements, analyses of Bitcoin software and services, workshops and help to facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community.
Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #429
This week’s newsletter describes a protocol for creating silent payment transactions from multiparty wallets, summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of Core Lightning, and explains Bitcoin Core’s updated security policy for easily discoverable vulnerabilities. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #428 Recap Podcast
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Adam Gibson, Vincenzo Palazzo, and João Dias to discuss Newsletter #428.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #428
This week’s newsletter describes a design for a single-issuer layer 2 whose users can redeem their bitcoin onchain without the issuer’s cooperation and summarizes a proposal for including hash preimages in output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #427 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Erick Cestari and Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #427.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #427
This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair and describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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