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 #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus and listing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing support for
Hin BIP32 paths in the BIP380 specification of descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing top questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to limit public participation in Bitcoin Core repositories, announces a significant improvements to BitVM-style contracts, and summarizes research into LN channel rebalancing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent changes to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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