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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #300 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss Newsletter #300.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #300

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a CTV-like proposal that uses commitments embedded in public keys, examines the analysis of a contract protocol with Alloy, announces the arrests of Bitcoin developers, and links to summaries of a CoreDev.tech developer meetup. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #299 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #299.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #299

    This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to relay weak blocks to improve compact block performance in a network with multiple divergent mempool policies and announces the addition of five BIP editors. Also included are our regular sections with selected 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 #298 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #298.

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