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 #393

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about recent OP_RETURN usage and describes a protocol to enforce covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392

    This week’s newsletter summarizes discussion of improving worst-case silent payment scanning performance and describes an idea for enabling many spending conditions in a single key. Also included are our regular sections announcements of new releases and release candidates and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #391.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391

    This week’s newsletter links to work on a constant-time parallelized UTXO database, summarizes a new high-level language for writing Bitcoin Script, and describes an idea to mitigate dust attacks. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.

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