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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts

• Feb 23, 2023

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #239 Recap Podcast

  Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239.

• Feb 22, 2023

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #239

  This week’s newsletter links to a draft BIP for the proposed OP_VAULT opcode, summarizes a discussion about allowing LN nodes to set a quality-of-service flag on their channels, relays a request for feedback on LN neighbor-node evaluation criteria, and describes a draft BIP for a seed backup and recovery scheme that can be reliably performed without electronics. Also included are our regular sections with summaries of popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

• Feb 15, 2023

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #238

  This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about storing data in the Bitcoin block chain, describes a hypothetical fee dilution attack against some types of multiparty protocols, and describes how a tapscript signature commitment can be used with different parts of the same tree. Also included are our regular sections with summaries of changes to services and client software, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. We additionally provide one of our rare recommendations for a new search engine focused on Bitcoin technical documentation and discussion.

• Feb 8, 2023

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #237

  This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about storing data in transaction witnesses and references a conversation about mitigating LN jamming. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

• Feb 1, 2023

  Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #236

  This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposal for serverless payjoin and describes an idea for allowing proof of payment for LN async payments. Also included is our regular section with descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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