Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould joined Murch and schmidty to discuss: - Syncing full nodes without witnesses - Quantum computing report - Transaction weight limit with exception to prevent confiscation - Removing outputs from the UTXO set based on value and time - And More…bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/06/10

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

Earlier today, Murch and schmidty 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

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

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

Yesterday Murch schmidty 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

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 riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech

Earlier this week Murch and schmidty 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

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