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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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #415

    This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures. 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 #414 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #414

    This week’s newsletter describes a new project to apply formal verification to the Bitcoin protocol. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #413 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #413

    This week’s newsletter describes research into using fountain codes to allow pruned nodes to contribute to initial block download. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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