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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #327 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #327.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #327

    This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for timeout tree channel factories and summarizes a draft BIP for proofs of discrete log equivalence to be used when generating silent payments. Also included are our regular sections with announcements of new software releases and descriptions of notable changes made to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast

    Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #326 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #326

    This week’s newsletter summarizes updates to a proposal for new LN channel announcements and describes a BIP for sending silent payments with PSBTs. Also included are our regular sections with popular 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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