Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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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. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Michael Ford (fanquake) and Martin Zumsande to discuss Newsletter #418.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming, reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing, and summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach. 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 #417 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition, Ram, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #417.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #417
This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for relaying stale block tips between peers. 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 #416 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #416
This week’s newsletter warns about a severe vulnerability affecting wallets generated by COLDCARD signing devices, summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Core Lightning, and describes a proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #415 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr, Kruw, and Mojo to discuss Newsletter #415.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #415
This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #414 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #414
This week’s newsletter describes a new project to apply formal verification to the Bitcoin protocol. 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 #413 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #413
This week’s newsletter describes research into using fountain codes to allow pruned nodes to contribute to initial block download. 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 #412 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #412.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing 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 #411 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Nishant Bansal and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #411.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #411
This week’s newsletter describes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of LND. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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