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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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to limit public participation in Bitcoin Core repositories, announces a significant improvements to BitVM-style contracts, and summarizes research into LN channel rebalancing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent changes to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #358.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358
This week’s newsletter describes how the selfish mining danger threshold can be calculated, summarizes an idea about preventing filtering of high feerate transactions, seeks feedback about a proposed change to BIP390
musig()descriptors, and announces a new library for encrypting descriptors. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #357.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357
This week’s newsletter shares an analysis about syncing full nodes without old witnesses. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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