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We provide weekly newsletters, a podcast, case studies and announcements, analyses of Bitcoin software and services, workshops and help to facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community.

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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401

    This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. 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 #400 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Julian Moik to discuss Newsletter #400.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #400

    This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #399 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #399

    This week’s newsletter describes how wallet fingerprinting can damage payjoin privacy and summarizes a proposal for a wallet backup metadata format. 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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