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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352

    This week’s newsletter links to comparisons between different cluster linearization techniques and briefly summarizes discussion about increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN size limit. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351

    This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wallet descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent Bitcoin Stack Exchange questions and answers, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #350.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350

    This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. Also included is a correction to some details from our story last week about SwiftSync.

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