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 #362
This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black to discuss Newsletter #361.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus and listing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing support for
Hin BIP32 paths in the BIP380 specification of descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing top questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to limit public participation in Bitcoin Core repositories, announces a significant improvements to BitVM-style contracts, and summarizes research into LN channel rebalancing. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent changes to clients and services, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #358.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #358
This week’s newsletter describes how the selfish mining danger threshold can be calculated, summarizes an idea about preventing filtering of high feerate transactions, seeks feedback about a proposed change to BIP390
musig()descriptors, and announces a new library for encrypting descriptors. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #357.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357
This week’s newsletter shares an analysis about syncing full nodes without old witnesses. 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.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #356 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #356
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about the possible effects of attributable failures on LN privacy. 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 recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355 Recap Podcast
Dave Harding is joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #355
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 #354 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #354.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #354
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core. Also included are our regular sections summarizing recent discussions 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 #353 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #353
This week’s newsletter describes a recently discovered theoretical consensus failure vulnerability and links to a proposal to avoid reuse of BIP32 wallet paths. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable code changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Sjors Provoost discuss Newsletter #352.
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