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 #411

    This week’s newsletter describes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of LND. 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 notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #410 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss Newsletter #410.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #410

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about wallets removing opt-in replace-by-fee signaling from the transactions they create. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #409 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #409

    This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP to replace the testnet4 test network with a successor. 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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