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 #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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #410 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss Newsletter #410.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #410
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about wallets removing opt-in replace-by-fee signaling from the transactions they create. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #409 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #409
This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP to replace the testnet4 test network with a successor. 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 #408 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pyth and Daniel Roberts (Ademan) to discuss Newsletter #408.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #408
This week’s newsletter summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure and describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets. 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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