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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

• Feb 18, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #341 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #341.

• Feb 14, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #341

  This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about probabilistic payments, describes additional opinions about ephemeral anchor scripts for LN, relays statistics about evictions from the Bitcoin Core orphan pool, and announces an updated draft for a revised BIP process. 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 software.

• Feb 11, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #340 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Johan Halseth, Pieter Wuille, Sergi Delgado, Bastien Teinturier, Oleksandr Kurbatov, Antoine Poinsot and Bob McElrath to discuss Newsletter #340.

• Feb 7, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #340

  This week’s newsletter announces a fixed vulnerability affecting LDK, summarizes discussion about zero-knowledge gossip for LN channel announcements, describes the discovery of previous research that can be applied to finding optimal cluster linearizations, provides an update on the development of the Erlay protocol for reducing transaction relay bandwidth, looks at tradeoffs between different scripts for implementing LN ephemeral anchors, relays a proposal for emulating an OP_RAND opcode in a privacy-preserving manner with no consensus changes required, and points to renewed discussion about lowering the minimum transaction feerate.

• Feb 4, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #339 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Matt Morehouse and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #339.

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