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.
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.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #312 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #312.
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.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #311 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311.
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.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #310 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss Newsletter #310.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #310
This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of 10 vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core and describes a proposal to allow BOLT11 invoices to include blinded paths. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #309 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #309.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #309
This week’s newsletter summarizes research into estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of 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 projects.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #308 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss Newsletter #308.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #308
This week’s newsletter announces the disclosure of a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND and summarizes continued discussion about PSBTs for silent payments. 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.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #307 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #307.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #307
This week’s newsletter announces a draft BIP for a quantum-safe Bitcoin address format and includes our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #306 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #306
This week’s newsletter announces an upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core, describes a draft BIP for a new version of testnet, summarizes a proposal for covenants based on functional encryption, examines an update to the proposal for performing 64-bit arithmetic in Bitcoin Script, links to a script for validating proof-of-work on signet with the
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opcode, and looks at a proposed update to the BIP21 specification ofbitcoin:
URIs. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, plus summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #305 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #305
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed light client protocol for silent payments, summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot, and links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork. 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.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #304 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss Newsletter #304.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #304
This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of several proposals for upgrading LN channels without closing and reopening them, discusses challenges in ensuring pool miners are paid appropriately, links to a discussion about safely using PSBTs for communicating information related to silent payments, announces a proposed BIP for miniscript, and summarizes a proposal for using frequent rebalancing of an LN channel to simulate a price futures contract. Also included are our regular sections summarizing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #303 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #303.
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