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 #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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #405 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #405.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #405
This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker with sufficient proof-of-work to crash Bitcoin Core nodes and describes a draft BIP proposal for sharing the UTXO set over the P2P network. Also included are our regular sections announcing a new release candidate and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #404 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni, Naiyoma, and Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #404.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #404
This week’s newsletter describes possible solutions to node fingerprinting and links to discussion of using public fraud proofs to improve incentives around just-in-time channels. Also included are our regular sections describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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