Bitcoin Optech newsletter #386 is here: - summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 - describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate support for new P2P features - links to 2106 timestamp overflow discussion and considerations around BIP54 - notes a CTV activation meeting and CTV footgun discussion - summarizes the OP_CHECKCONSOLIDATION proposal - links to a report of hash-based post-quantum signature schemes - Optech Newsletter #386 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Jonathan T. Halseth posted to Delving Bitcoin a prototype of a vault-like scheme using blinded co-signers. Unlike traditional setups using co-signers, this scheme uses a blinded version of MuSig2 to ensure the signers know as little as possible about the funds they are involved in signing...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Anthony Towns posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a proposal for a new BIP to define a P2P message that would allow peers to announce and negotiate support for new features...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Asher Haim posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list asking Bitcoin developers to act promptly to prepare for a migration from uint32 to uint64 block timestamps...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Josh Doman posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list and Delving Bitcoin asking whether it’s might be worthwhile to modify the consensus cleanup proposal to be more permissive to odd block timestamp behavior to allow a potential soft fork solution to the 2106 block timestamp overflow issue...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Chris Stewart posted to Delving Bitcoin a discussion of a “footgun” with OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV)...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Developer 1440000bytes hosted a CTV (BIP119) activation meeting...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

billymcbip proposed an opcode specifically optimized for consolidations. OP_CHECKCONSOLIDATION (CC) would evaluate to 1 if and only if it’s executed on an input with the same scriptPubKey as an earlier input in the same transaction...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

Mikhail Kudinov and Jonas Nick posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about their work on evaluating hash-based signatures for use in Bitcoin...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #386

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vault-like scheme using blinded MuSig2 and describes a proposal for Bitcoin clients to announce and negotiate...

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Bastien Teinturier, Rearden Code, and Pieter Wuille joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special. Catch up on Bitcoin developments in 2025. You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special is here: - notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2025 - feature: Vulnerability disclosures - feature: Quantum - feature: Soft fork proposals - feature: Stratum v2 - feature: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects - feature: Optech

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

In 2025, Optech summarized more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

With the increased attention on the potential for a future quantum computer to weaken or break the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm (ECDL) hardness assumption that Bitcoin relies on to prove the ownership of coins, several conversations and proposals were put forward throughout the year to discuss and mitigate the impact of such a development.

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

This year saw a bevy of discussions around soft fork proposals, ranging from the tightly scoped and minimally impactful, to the broadly scoped and powerful…

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

Stratum v2 is a mining protocol designed to replace the original Stratum protocol used between miners and mining pools. Throughout 2025, Bitcoin Core received several updates to better support Stratum v2 implementations....

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

Optech covered major releases of popular infrastructure projects throughout the year...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

In Optech’s eighth year, we published: - 50 newsletters - over 80,000 words, a 225pg book equivalent - over 60hrs of podcasts, with 500,000 words of transcripts w/75 guests - 150+ non-English translations

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special

The eighth annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2025.

A special thank you After contributing as the primary author for 376 consecutive Bitcoin Optech newsletters, Dave Harding stepped back from contributing regularly this year. We cannot thank Harding enough for anchoring the newsletter for eight years and all of the Bitcoin education, elucidation, and understanding he brought the community. We are eternally grateful and wish him all the best. Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this special newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

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Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #384: - Vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0 - A virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices - 7 updates to services and client software - 3 questions from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange - And More You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #384.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 12/16/2025 · 1h 13m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #384 is here: - discloses vulnerabilities in LND - describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element - summarizes changes to services/client software - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #384 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...

Matt Morehouse posted to Delving Bitcoin about critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...

Salvatoshi posted to Delving Bitcoin about Vanadium, a virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...

Changes to services and client software: - Interactive transaction visualization tool - BlueWallet v7.2.2 released - Stratum v2 updates - Auradine announces Stratum v2 support - LDK Node 0.7.0 released - BIP-329 Python Library 1.0.0 release - Bitcoin Safe 1.6.0 released

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Does a clearnet connection to my Lightning node require a TLS certificate? - Why do different implementations produce different DER signatures for the same private key and hash? - Why is the miniscript after value limited at 0x80000000?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...

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Moonsettler and Julian joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #383: - A consensus bug in the NBitcoin library found with differential fuzzing - LNHANCE soft fork proposal updates - Benchmarking Bitcoin Script under the proposed varops budget - Optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures - And More You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Moonsettler and Julian to discuss Newsletter #383.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 12/09/2025 · 1h 21m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here: - describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library - summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal - relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget - highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures - Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...

Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about a theoretical consensus failure in NBitcoin that could occur when using OP_NIP...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...

Moonsettler proposes a soft fork for LNHANCE now that all four of its constituent opcodes have updated BIPs and reference implementations...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...

Julian posted a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under the varops budget...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...

Continuing the discussions around hardening Bitcoin against quantum computing, conduition presented his work on optimizing the SPHINCS signing algorithm...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #382: - Updated stats on compact block reconstructions - A motion to activate BIP3 and replace the current BIP process - 3 questions from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange - And more You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #382.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 1h 6m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #382 is here: - provides an update on compact block reconstruction discussions - relays a call to activate BIP3 - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #382 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382

This week’s newsletter provides an update on compact block reconstruction discussions and relays a call to activate BIP3. Also included are our r...

0xB10C posted an update to Delving Bitcoin about his statistics around compact block reconstruction...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382

This week’s newsletter provides an update on compact block reconstruction discussions and relays a call to activate BIP3. Also included are our r...

Murch posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a formal motion to activate BIP3...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382

This week’s newsletter provides an update on compact block reconstruction discussions and relays a call to activate BIP3. Also included are our r...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Do pruned nodes store witness inscriptions? - Increasing probability of block hash collisions when difficulty is too high - What is the purpose of the initial 0x04 byte in all extended public and private keys?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382

This week’s newsletter provides an update on compact block reconstruction discussions and relays a call to activate BIP3. Also included are our r...

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Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #381: - Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization - Private key handover for collaborative closure - Updates to services and client software - And more You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #381.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 11/25/2025 · 1h 36m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #381 is here: - looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue - describes a new approach for resolving protocols where multiple parties share funds - summarizes changes to services/client software - Optech Newsletter #381 Podcast

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381

This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving pr...

Antoine Poinsot posted to Delving Bitcoin about modeling stale block rates and how block propagation time affects a miner’s revenue as a function of its hashrate...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381

This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving pr...

ZmnSCPxj posted to Delving Bitcoin about private key handover, an optimization that protocols can implement when funds, previously owned by two parties, need to be refunded to a single entity...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381

This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving pr...

Changes to services and client software: - Arkade launches - Mempool monitoring mobile application - Web-based policy and miniscript IDE - Phoenix Wallet adds taproot channels - Nunchuk 2.0 launches - LN gossip traffic analysis tool announced

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381

This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving pr...

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TheCharlatan joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #380: - The Bitcoin Kernel - And more You can listen on our website:

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 11/18/2025 · 44m

Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #379: - ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 - Multiple discussions about restricting data - Post-quantum signature aggregation - Native STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script - BIP54 implementation and test vectors - And more You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinso...

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 11/12/2025 · 2h 7m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #379 is here: - shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries - highlights multiple discussions about restricting data - summarizes a proposed post-quantum signature aggregation opcode - summarizes an idea for STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script - updates progress on BIP54's consensus cleanup - Optech Newsletter #379 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

Sebastian Falbesoner posted to Delving about comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation between OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 over the last decade...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

Multiple conversations examined ideas to change the limits of various fields in consensus...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

Tadge Dryja posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal for an OP_CHECKINPUTVERIFY (OP_CIV) opcode that enables a locking script to commit to a specific UTXO being spent in the same transaction...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

Abdelhamid Bakhta posted to Delving Bitcoin a detailed proposal for a new tapscript opcode OP_STARK_VERIFY which would enable the verification of a specific variant of STARK proof in Bitcoin Script...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

Antoine Poinsot posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list an update on his consensus cleanup work on BIP54...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379

This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our r...

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378: - Disclosure of four low-severity vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Core - Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange including questions on datacarriersize, OP_TEMPLATEHASH and others - And more You can listen on our website:

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.News● CPU DoS from unconfirmed transaction processing (1:00) Selected Q&A from...

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 11/04/2025 · 1h 3m

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #378 is here: - announces four vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the Bitcoin Core full node - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #378 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #378

This week’s newsletter announces four vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the Bitcoin Core full node. Also included are our regular secti...

Antoine Poinsot recently posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list four Bitcoin Core security advisories for low-severity vulnerabilities that were fixed in Bitcoin Core 30.0...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #378

This week’s newsletter announces four vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the Bitcoin Core full node. Also included are our regular secti...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Why was -datacarriersize redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? - What is the smallest valid transaction that can be included in a block? - Why does Bitcoin Core continue to give witness data a discount even when it is used for inscriptions? - The ever-growing Bitcoin blockchain size? - I read that OP_TEMPLATEHASH is a variant of OP_CTV. How do they differ?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #378

This week’s newsletter announces four vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the Bitcoin Core full node. Also included are our regular secti...

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Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #377: - Detecting block template feerate increases using cluster mempool - Channel jamming mitigation simulation results and updates - BULL wallet launches, Sparrow 2.3.0 released - And more You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #377 Recap Podcast

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss Newsletter #377.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 55m

Francesco Madonna and supertestnet joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #376: - Continued discussion of block template sharing - B-SSL a Secure Bitcoin Signing Layer - Bitcoin Core 30.0 - And more You can listen on our website:

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Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Francesco Madonna and supertestnet to discuss Newsletter #376.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 10/28/2025 · 39m

Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj and Eugene Siegel joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #375: - Optimal Threshold Signatures - Flattening certain nested threshold signatures - Theoretical limitations on embedding data in the UTXO set - The ‘Compact block harness’ Bitcoin Core PR Review Club - And more You can listen on our website:

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #375 Recap Podcast

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj, and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #375.

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #376 is here: - shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template - summarizes a paper outlining a covenant-less vault construction - Bitcoin Core 30.0 release - Optech Newsletter #376 Podcast

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376

This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...

Discussion continued around the proposal for full node peers to occasionally send each other their current template for the next block using compact block relay encoding...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376

This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...

Francesco Madonna posted to Delving Bitcoin about a concept which is a covenant-less vault model using taproot, OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376

This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...

Bitcoin Core 30.0 is the latest version release of the network’s predominant full node. Its release notes describe several significant improvements...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376

This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

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