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Recent newsletters and blog posts

• Jan 26, 2022

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #184

  This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to extend PSBTs with fields for spending outputs constructed using a pay-to-contract protocol and includes our regular sections with summaries of top posts from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

• Jan 19, 2022

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #183

  This week’s newsletter shares the announcement of a new legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers and summarizes some recent discussion about the proposed OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY soft fork. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of some recent changes to services and client software, plus summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

• Jan 12, 2022

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #182

  This week’s newsletter describes an idea to add accounts to Bitcoin for paying transaction fees and includes our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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