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Recent newsletters, blog posts, and podcasts
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #334 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special
The seventh annual Bitcoin Optech Year-in-Review special summarizes notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2024. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #333 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #333
This week’s newsletter describes a vulnerability that allowed stealing from old versions of various LN implementations, announces a deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software, summarizes a post and discussion about LN channel depletion, links to a poll for opinions about selected covenant proposals, describes two types of incentive-based pseudo-covenants, and references summaries of the periodic in-person Bitcoin Core developer meeting. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, listing changes to services and client software, linking to popular Bitcoin Stack Exchange questions and answers, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s Lightning Network channel depletion research.
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