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 #390

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a more efficient approach to garbled circuits and links to an LN-Symmetry update. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new software releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #389.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389

    This week’s newsletter links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks. Also included are our regular sections describing recent updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss Newsletter #388.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388

    This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core and announces deployment of a new BIP process. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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