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 #402
This week’s newsletter describes Hornet Node’s work on a declarative executable specification of consensus rules and summarizes a discussion about onion message jamming in the Lightning Network. 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 #401 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Remix7531 and Luis Schwab to discuss Newsletter #401.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. 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 #400 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Julian Moik to discuss Newsletter #400.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #400
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #399 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #399
This week’s newsletter describes how wallet fingerprinting can damage payjoin privacy and summarizes a proposal for a wallet backup metadata format. 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 #398 Recap Podcast
Mike Schmidt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #398.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #398
This week’s newsletter includes 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 #397 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Gregory Sanders, and Sebastian van Staa to discuss Newsletter #397.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #397
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss Newsletter #396.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396
This week’s newsletter describes a collision-resistant hash function using Bitcoin Script and summarizes continued discussion of Lightning Network traffic analysis. Also included are our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395
This week’s newsletter describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations and links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s
nVersionfield. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #394.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394
This week’s newsletter looks at a proposed BIP for including supplemental information with output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss Newsletter #393.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about recent OP_RETURN usage and describes a protocol to enforce covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss Newsletter #392.
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