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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #375

    This week’s newsletter describes research into tradeoffs between usability and security in threshold signatures, summarizes an approach to convert nested threshold signatures into a single-layer signing group, and examines the extent to which data could be embedded in the UTXO set under a restrictive set of rules. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #374 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #374.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #374

    This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #373 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Daniela Brozzoni, and Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #373.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #373

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of Eclair and summarizes research into full node feerate settings. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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