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We provide workshops, weekly newsletters, original research, case studies and announcements, analysis of Bitcoin software and services, a podcast, and help facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community.
Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336
This week’s newsletter describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners, summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks, and discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetry variant with optional penalties. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335 Recap Podcast
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss Newsletter #335.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335
This week’s newsletter links to information about longstanding deanonymization vulnerabilities in software using centralized coinjoin protocols and summarizes an update to a draft BIP about the ChillDKG distributed key generation protocol compatible with scriptless threshold signing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing 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 #334 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special
The seventh annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2024.
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