Bitcoin Optech helps Bitcoin users and businesses integrate scaling technologies.
We provide weekly newsletters, a podcast, case studies and announcements, analyses of Bitcoin software and services, workshops and help to facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community.
Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366 Recap Podcast
Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366
This week’s newsletter announces draft BIPs for Utreexo, summarizes continued discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate, and describes a proposal to allow nodes to share their block templates to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies. 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. We also include a correction to last week’s newsletter and a recommendation to readers.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365
This week’s newsletter summarizes the results of a test of compact block relay prefilling and links to a mempool-based fee estimation library. 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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