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Bitcoin Optech
@bitcoinoptech
We provide weekly newsletters, workshops, case studies, and research for the #Bitcoin community.
Joined June 2018
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #95 is here: - summarizes disclosure of issue affecting the safety of routed LN payments - announces new presigned vault proposal - popular StackExchange Q&A - announcements of RCs - notable code changes in popular Bitcoin repos
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #100 is here: - summarizes proposed coinswap implementation - describes new middleware for lightweight wallets to request info directly from a user’s node - highlights 2 tx size calculators - celebration of Newsletter #100
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #274 is here: - describes the replacement cycling attack against HTLCs used in LN and other systems, examines deployed mitigations, and summarizes additional mitigation proposals - notes a bug affecting a Bitcoin Core RPC ...
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #231: 2022 Year-in-Review Special is here: - notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2022 - feature: Replace-By-Fee - feature: Major releases of popular projects - feature: Bitcoin Optech - feature: Soft fork proposals
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #78 Year-in-Review Special is here: - summarizes developments in Bitcoin during 2019 - major releases of infrastructure projects - notable technical conferences / events - new open source infrastructure - Bitcoin Optech efforts
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    The Bitcoin Optech 2018 Year-in-Review summary is here! We've rounded up the most important technical developments of the year in one newsletter. This newsletter contains lots of graphs and tables, so is best viewed on the website with a larger screen.
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    Over the past 18 months, we've published the equivalent of about 350 printed pages worth of Bitcoin news and documentation. Today, we’re pleased to announce a new index that organizes that content by topic.
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #129 Year-in-Review Special is here: - summarizes developments in Bitcoin during 2020 - outlines taproot, tapscript, and schnorr signatures - notes major releases of infrastructure projects - reviews Bitcoin Optech efforts
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special is here: - notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2024 - Vulnerability disclosures - Cluster mempool - P2P transaction relay - Covenants and script upgrades - Major releases - Optech
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    We're proud to announce the launch of Bitcoin Optech today. We're here to help Bitcoin businesses integrate scaling technology.
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    Announcing the Bitcoin Optech Podcast! The last few months we've had the pleasure of hosting Twitter Spaces discussions with prominent Bitcoin/Lightning developers & researchers who author the software and mail list posts covered in our newsletters...
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    Last month, we held two workshops on the schnorr/taproot proposal. We're releasing all content (videos, slides, transcripts, jupyter notebooks) from those workshops so anyone can learn about the proposals and play with the technology: bitcoinops.org/en/schorr-tapr…
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #180: 2021 Year-in-Review is here: - notes developments in Bitcoin during each month of 2021 - featured summary: taproot - featured summary: major releases of popular infrastructure projects - featured summary: Bitcoin Optech
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    Bitcoin Optech newsletter #101 is here: - links to a post/paper about eclipse attacks to steal from LN channels - describes history of a fee overpayment attack affecting hardware wallets - summary of Connection eviction logic tests PR Review Club meeting