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 #320
This week’s newsletter announces a new testing tool for Bitcoin Core and briefly describes a DLC-based loan contract. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #319 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss Newsletter #319.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #319
This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposal for allowing Stratum v2 pool miners to receive compensation for the transaction fees contained in the block templates they turn into shares, announces a research fund investigating the proposed
OP_CATopcode, and describes a discussion about mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities with or without a soft fork. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates as well as describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #318 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss Newsletter #318.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #318
This week’s newsletter announces a new mailing list to discuss Bitcoin mining. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #317 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #317.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #317
This week’s newsletter summarizes discussion about an anti-exfiltration protocol that only requires one round trip of communication between a wallet and a signing device. Also included are our regular sections describing updates to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #316 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Hennadii Stepanov to discuss Newsletter #316.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #316
This week’s newsletter describes a new time warp that’s particularly consequential for the new testnet4, summarizes discussion about proposed mitigations for onion message denial-of-service concerns, seeks feedback on a proposal to allow LN payers to optionally identify themselves, and announces a major change to Bitcoin Core’s build system that could affect downstream developers and integrators. 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 #315 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss Newsletter #315.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #315
This week’s newsletter announces the Dark Skippy fast seed exfiltration attack, summarizes discussion about block withholding attacks and proposed solutions, shares statistics about compact block reconstruction, describes a replacement cycling attack against transactions with pay-to-anchor outputs, mentions a new BIP specifying threshold signing with FROST, and relays an announcement of an improvement to Eftrace that allows it to opportunistically verify zero-knowledge proofs using two proposed soft forks.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #314 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado to discuss Newsletter #314.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #314
This week’s newsletter announces the disclosure of two vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core and summarizes a proposed approach to optimizing miner transaction selection when cluster mempool is in use. 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 #313 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #313.
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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.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #312 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #312.
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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.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #311 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311.
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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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #310 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss Newsletter #310.
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