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.

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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

• Nov 25, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #381.

• Nov 21, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381

  This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving protocols where multiple parties share funds. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

• Nov 18, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #380 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.

• Nov 14, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #380

  This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

• Nov 11, 2025

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.

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