
Bitcoin Optech helps Bitcoin users and businesses integrate scaling technologies.
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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss Newsletter #396.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396
This week’s newsletter describes a collision-resistant hash function using Bitcoin Script and summarizes continued discussion of Lightning Network traffic analysis. Also included are 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 #395 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395
This week’s newsletter describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations and links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s
nVersionfield. 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. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #394.
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