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 #252
This week’s newsletter describes research into zero-knowledge validity proofs for Bitcoin and related protocols. Also included is another entry in our limited weekly series about mempool policy, plus our regular sections describing updates to clients and services, new releases and release candidates, and changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #251
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to begin testing HTLC endorsement, relays a request for feedback about proposed specifications for Lightning Service Providers (LSPs), discusses challenges with opening zero-conf channels when using dual funding, looks at a suggestion for advanced applications of payjoin transactions, and links to summaries of a recent in-person meeting of Bitcoin Core developers. Also included in this week’s newsletter is the first part of a new series about policies for transaction relay and mempool inclusion, plus our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates (including a security release of libsecp256k1) and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #250 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Larry Ruane and Thomas Hartman to discuss Newsletter #250.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #250
This week’s newsletter summarizes a paper about the PoWswap protocol and 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. Also included is a short section celebrating five years of Bitcoin Optech and our 250th newsletter.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #249 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Salvatore Ingala, James O’Beirne, Adam Gibson, and Steve Lee to discuss Newsletter #249.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #249
This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of using a flexible covenant design to reimplement the
OP_VAULTproposal, summarizes a post about signature adaptor security, and relays a job announcement that may be particularly interesting to some readers. Also included are our regular sections describing new releases, release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #248 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Will Clark to discuss Newsletter #248.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #248
This week’s newsletter relays a request for feedback about a proposal to remove support for the BIP35
mempoolP2P protocol message from Bitcoin Core and includes 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. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #247 Recap Podcast
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Maxim Orlovsky to discuss Newsletter #247.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #247
This week’s newsletter provides an update on development of the RGB protocol and includes our regular sections that summarize recent updates to clients and services, announce new releases and release candidates, and describe notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #246 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #246.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #246
This week’s newsletter describes a discussion about LN splicing and links to a proposed BIP for recommended transaction terminology. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcements of new releases and release candidates—including a security update for libsecp256k1—and and descriptions of notable changes made to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #245 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado Segura to discuss Newsletter #245.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #245
This week’s newsletter summarizes an idea for watchtower accountability proofs and includes 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 #244 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #244
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to improve capital efficiency on LN using tunable penalties. Also included are our regular sections with summaries of top 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 #243 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Alekos Filini to discuss Newsletter #243.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #243
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with descriptions of changes to services and client software, plus summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #242 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Calvin Kim, James O’Beirne, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #242.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #242
This week’s newsletter relays the announcement of a service bit being used for testing Utreexo, links to several new software releases and release candidates, and describes a merged Bitcoin Core pull request.
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