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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #303
This week’s newsletter summarizes a new scheme for anonymous usage tokens that could be used for LN channel announcements and multiple other sybil-resistant coordination protocols, links to discussion about a new BIP39 seed phrase splitting scheme, announces an alternative to BitVM for verifying successful execution of arbitrary programs in interactive contract protocols, and relays suggestions for updating the BIPs process.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #302 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss Newsletter #302.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #302
This week’s newsletter announces the beta release of a full node supporting utreexo and summarizes a two proposed extensions to BIP119
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #301 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #301.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #301
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for securing transactions with lamport signatures without requiring any consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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