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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #337

    This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares and describes a new proposal for enabling offchain resolution of DLCs. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss Newsletter #336.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336

    This week’s newsletter describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners, summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks, and discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetry variant with optional penalties. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335 Recap Podcast

    Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss Newsletter #335.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335

    This week’s newsletter links to information about longstanding deanonymization vulnerabilities in software using centralized coinjoin protocols and summarizes an update to a draft BIP about the ChillDKG distributed key generation protocol compatible with scriptless threshold signing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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