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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #293 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #293.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #293

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a post about trustless onchain betting for potential soft forks and links to a detailed overview of Chia Lisp for Bitcoiners. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #292 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #292.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #292

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about updating the specification for BIP21 bitcoin: URIs, describes a proposal to manage multiple concurrent MuSig2 signing sessions with a minimum of state, links to a thread about adding editors for the BIPs repository, and discusses a set of tools that allow quickly porting the Bitcoin Core GitHub project to a self-hosted GitLab project. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #291 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss Newsletter #291.

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