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 #408
This week’s newsletter summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure and describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and 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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Chandra Pratap to discuss Newsletter #407.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407
This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes and links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #406 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Oliver Gugger and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #406.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #406
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of updates to BIP322’s generic signed message format and describes an idea to use TCP hole punching to help Bitcoin nodes behind NATs accept inbound connections. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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