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 #421
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and 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 #420 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Níckolas Goline, Optout, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, and Moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #420.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420
This week’s newsletter relays advance notice of a planned Core Lightning security release, summarizes a discussion about opt-in replay protection for potential future forks, notes that the Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI) project will enter maintenance mode, and describes a request for comments on using block-range filters. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Salvatore Ingala, and spacebear to discuss Newsletter #419.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419
This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the
rawtr()output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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