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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #353 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #353

    This week’s newsletter describes a recently discovered theoretical consensus failure vulnerability and links to a proposal to avoid reuse of BIP32 wallet paths. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable code changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Sjors Provoost discuss Newsletter #352.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352

    This week’s newsletter links to comparisons between different cluster linearization techniques and briefly summarizes discussion about increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN size limit. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.

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