Bitcoin Optech helps Bitcoin users and businesses integrate scaling technologies.

We provide workshops, documentation, 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.

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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #313

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a wide-ranging discussion about free relay and fee-bumping upgrades in Bitcoin Core. Also included are our regular sections sharing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #312 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #312.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #312

    This week’s newsletter describes a distributed key generation protocol for the FROST scriptless threshold signature scheme and links to a comprehensive introduction to cluster linearization. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to clients, services, and popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #311 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #311

    This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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