Bitcoin Optech newsletter #370 is here: - details the design of Simplicity - links to a draft BIP for adding elliptic curve operations to tapscript - describes the draft BIP for OP_TWEAKADD - Optech Newsletter #370 Podcast
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release an...
 Russell O’Connor made three posts so far to Delving Bitcoin about “the philosophy and design of the Simplicity language”...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release an...
 Olaoluwa Osuntokun posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a link to a draft BIP for adding several opcodes to tapscript that will allow elliptic curve operations to be performed on the script evaluation stack...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release an...
 Jeremy Rubin posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a link a draft BIP to add OP_TWEAKADD to tapscript...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release an...
 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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Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #369: News 24:56 Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations 0:58 Garbled locks for accountable computing contracts Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange 39:45 Is it possible to recover a private key from an aggregate public key under strong assumptions? 41:24 Are all taproot addresses vulnerable to quantum computing? 45:20 Why cant we set the chainstate obfuscation key? 52:09 Is it possible to revoke a spending branch after a block height? 53:45 Configure Bitcoin Core to use onion nodes in addition to IPv4 and IPv6 nodes? Releases and release candidates 54:22 Bitcoin Core 29.1rc2 56:45 Core Lightning v25.09rc4 Notable code and documentation changes 57:37 Bitcoin Core #31802 1:04:46 LDK #3979 1:06:19 LND #10102 1:07:04 Rust Bitcoin #4907 You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.News● Update on differential fuzz...
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 09/02/2025 · 1h 8m
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369 is here: - shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations - links to a new paper about garbled locks for accountable computing contracts - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #369 Podcast
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369
This week’s newsletter shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations and links to a new paper about garbled locks fo...
 Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe recent progress and accomplishments of bitcoinfuzz, a library and related data for fuzz testing Bitcoin-based software and libraries...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369
This week’s newsletter shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations and links to a new paper about garbled locks fo...
 Liam Eagen posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a paper he’s written about a new mechanism for creating accountable computing contracts but based on garbled circuits...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369
This week’s newsletter shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations and links to a new paper about garbled locks fo...
 Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Is it possible to recover a private key from an aggregate public key under strong assumptions? - Are all taproot addresses vulnerable to quantum computing? - Why cant we set the chainstate obfuscation key? - Is it possible to revoke a spending branch after a block height? - Configure Bitcoin Core to use onion nodes in addition to IPv4 and IPv6 nodes?
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369
This week’s newsletter shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations and links to a new paper about garbled locks fo...
 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!
Riverside.FM Studio
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368 is here: - summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes - announces a library that allows trusted delegation of script evaluation - summarizes changes to services/client software - Optech Newsletter #368 Podcast
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368
This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...
 Anthony Towns posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list the draft of a BIP for how nodes can communicate to their peers the transactions they would attempt to mine in their next block...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368
This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...
 Josh Doman posted to Delving Bitcoin about a library he’s written that uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) that will only sign a taproot keypath spend if the transaction containing that spend satisfies a script...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368
This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...
 Changes to services and client software: - ZEUS v0.11.3 released - Rust Utreexo resources - Peer-observer tooling and call to action - Bitcoin Core Kernel-based node announced - SimplicityHL released - LSP plugin for BTCPay Server - Proto mining hardware and software announced - Oracle resolution demo using CSFS - Relai adds taproot support
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368
This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...
 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!
Riverside.FM Studio
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367 is here: - LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 - Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 - Optech Newsletter #367 Podcast
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrast...
 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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David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #365: - Compact block prefilling - Mempool-based fee estimation - Migration from quantum-vulnerable outputs - The OP_TEMPLATEHASH proposal - Proposal to allow longer relative timelocks - Security against quantum computers with taproot as a commitment scheme - And more You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Ne...
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 08/06/2025 · 1h 56m