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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #323

    This week’s newsletter announces a planned security disclosure and includes our regular sections describing new releases, release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #322 Recap Podcast

    Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #322.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #322

    This week’s newsletter announces a fixed vulnerability affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core, provides an update on hybrid channel jamming mitigation, summarizes a paper about more efficient and private client-side validation, and announces a proposal to update the BIP process. Also included are our regular sections summarizing top questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #321 Recap Podcast

    Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss Newsletter #321.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #321

    This week’s newsletter links to a proof-of-concept implementation for proving in zero-knowledge that an output is part of the UTXO set, describes one new and two previous proposals for allowing offline LN payments, and summarizes research about DNS seeding for non-IP network addresses. Also included are our regular sections describing changes to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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