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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #357 is here:
- shares an analysis about syncing full nodes without old witnesses
- Changing consensus covering: a quantum computing report, transaction weight limits, removing outputs from the UTXO set based on value and time
- Optech Newsletter #357 Recap
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/06/06
Jose SK posted to Delbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/06/06/#syncing-full-nodes-without-witnesses
Clara Shikhelman postbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/06/06/#quantum-computing-report
Vojtěch Strnad postedbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/06/06/#transaction-weight-limit-with-exception-to-prevent-confiscation
Robin Linus posted tobitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/06/06/#removing-outputs-from-the-utxo-set-based-on-value-and-time
Bitcoin Optech will hriverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
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Earlier today, Murch and Calm Hamster were joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss #356:
- Attributable failures and LN privacy
- Several P2P and policy questions from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- And more!
Catch up:
bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/06/03
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Last week Dave Harding was joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355:
- Cake Wallet, Sparrow, Safe Wallet, COLDCARD, tx batching using payjoin, JoinMarket fidelity bonds, Bitcoin opcode documentation, Bitkey open sourced
- LND and CLN releases
- Bitcoin Core, CLN and LND PRs
Cabitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/05/27
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #356 is here:
- summarizes a discussion about the possible effects of attributable failures on LN privacy
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- adds an attributable failures topic
- Optech Newsletter #356 Recap Podcast
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30
Carla Kirk-Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin an analybitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30/#do-attributable-failures-reduce-ln-privacy
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- Which bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Attributable failures are LN payment forwarding faibitcoinops.org/en/topics/attributable-failures
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
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Yesterday Murch Calm Hamster spoke with Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus:
- A disclosed Bitcoin Core vulnerability
- 64 bit arithmetic draft BIP
- A new approach to recursive covenants
- BitVM benefits from CTV and CSFS
- And more
Catch up:
bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/05/20
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #354 is here:
- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core
- Changing consensus covering: 64-bit arithmetic in Script, Proposed opcodes for enabling recursive covenants through quines, benefits to BitVM from OP_CTV and OP_CSFS
- Optech Newsletter #354 Rbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#vulnerability-disclosure-affecting-old-versions-of-bitcoin-core
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#proposed-bip-for-64-bit-arithmetic-in-script
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#proposed-opcodes-for-enabling-recursive-covenants-through-quines
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#description-of-benefits-to-bitvm-from-op-ctv-and-op-csfs
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Earlier this week Murch and Calm Hamster discussed Newsletter #353 with Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke:
- BIP30 consensus failure vulnerability
- Avoiding BIP32 path reuse
- Bitcoin Core’s multiprocess project
- And more…
Catch up:
bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/05/13
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Earlier this week Murch and Sjors Provoost discussed Newsletter #352:
- Cluster linearization techniques for cluster mempool
- Increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN size limit
- Bitcoin Core removing legacy wallets
- And more...
Catch up:
bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/05/06
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #353 is here:
- describes a recently discovered theoretical consensus failure vulnerability
- links to a proposal to avoid reuse of BIP32 wallet paths
- recaps the "Add bitcoin wrapper executable" PR Review Meeting
- Optech Newsletter #353 Recap
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09
Ruben Somsen posted to the Bitcoibitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#bip30-consensus-failure-vulnerability
Kevin Loaec posted to Delving Bitbitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#avoiding-bip32-path-reuse
"Add bitcoin wrapper executable" bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/09/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club
Bitcoin Optech will host an audioriverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #352 is here:
- links to comparisons between different cluster linearization techniques
- briefly summarizes discussion about increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN size limit
- Optech Newsletter #352 Recap
bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/02
Pieter Wuille posted to Delving Bitcoin about some of the fundabitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/02/#comparison-of-cluster-linearization-techniques
In a thread on Bitcoin-Dev, several developers discussed changibitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/02/#increasing-or-removing-bitcoin-core-s-op-return-size-limit
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsriverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
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