Publications
Recent publications from our blog posts and newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #184
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to extend PSBTs with fields for spending outputs constructed using a pay-to-contract protocol and includes our regular sections with summaries of top posts from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #183
This week’s newsletter shares the announcement of a new legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers and summarizes some recent discussion about the proposed
OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFYsoft fork. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of some recent changes to services and client software, plus summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #182
This week’s newsletter describes an idea to add accounts to Bitcoin for paying transaction fees and includes our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #181
This week’s newsletter describes an alternative proposal to slowly phase in full replace-by-fee and announces a series of meetings to review the proposed
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #180: 2021 Year-in-Review Special
This special edition of the Optech Newsletter summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2021. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #179
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow relay of transactions with zero-value outputs in some cases and summarizes a discussion about preparing LN for the adoption of PTLCs. Also included are our regular sections with a list of recent changes to services and client software, popular questions on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #178
This week’s newsletter describes a post about fee-bumping research and contains our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, the latest releases and release candidates for Bitcoin software, and notable changes to popular infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #177
This week’s newsletter describes a recently fixed interoperability issue between different LN software and includes our regular sections with a list of new releases and release candidates plus notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #176
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion about how to allow LN users to choose between higher fees and higher payment reliability. Also included are our regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #175
This week’s newsletter provides information about the activation of taproot and includes our regular sections with summaries of changes to services and client software, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #174
This week’s newsletter summarizes a post about ways of integrating discreet log contracts with LN channels, links to a detailed summary of the recent LN developer conference, and describes ideas for performing additional verification of compact block filters. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, our final column about preparing for taproot activation, descriptions of new releases and release candidates, and a list of notable changes to popular infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #173
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about submitting transactions directly to miners, links to a set of recommended taproot test vectors for wallet implementations, and includes our regular sections about preparing for taproot, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #172
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with summaries of popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, information about preparing for taproot activation, a list of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #171
This week’s newsletter summarizes a thread about paying frequently-offline LN nodes, describes a set of proposals for lowering the cost of LN payment path probing in order to make certain attacks more expensive, and links to instructions useful for creating taproot transactions on signet and testnet. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to clients and services, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #170
This week’s newsletter describes a vulnerability recently fixed in several LN implementations and summarizes a proposal providing multiple benefits for upgrading the LN protocol to take advantage of features in taproot. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a recent Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, information about preparing for taproot, listings of new software releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #169
This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposal to add transaction heritage identifiers to Bitcoin and includes our regular sections with information about preparing for taproot, a list of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #168
This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposal to implement breaking changes in the DLC specification, examines options for allowing recovery of closed LN channels using just a BIP32 seed, and describes an idea to generate stateless LN invoices. Also included are our regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, ideas for preparing for taproot’s activation, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #167
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed modification to the BIP process, summarizes a plan to add support for package relay to Bitcoin Core, and links to a discussion about adding LN node information to DNS. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of changes to services and client software, how you can prepare for taproot, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #166
This week’s newsletter describes a new proposal for a covenant opcode and summarizes a request for feedback on implementing regular reorgs on signet. Also included are our regular sections with ideas for preparing for taproot activation, a list of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #165
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for Bitcoin-related MIME types and summarizes a paper about a design for a new decentralized mining pool. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, how to prepare for taproot, new releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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