René Pickhardt joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #389: - A mathematical theory of payment channel networks - 2 updates to services and client software - And more You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠.News● A mathematical theory of payment ...
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 01/27/2026 · 54m
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #389 is here: - links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks - summarizes changes to services/client software including an Electrum server for testing silent payments and a BDK WASM library - Optech Newsletter #389 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389
This week’s newsletter links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks. Also included are our regular sections describing recent update...
 René Pickhardt posted to Delving Bitcoin about the publication of his new paper called “A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Network”...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389
This week’s newsletter links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks. Also included are our regular sections describing recent update...
 Changes to services and client software: - Electrum server for testing silent payments - BDK WASM library
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389
This week’s newsletter links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks. Also included are our regular sections describing recent update...
 Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on
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Bruno Garcia explains his vision for incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core:
Craig Raw (@craigraw) on silent payments. From Optech Recap #387
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #388 is here: - links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core - announces deployment of a new BIP process - Optech Newsletter #388 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core and announces deployment of a new BIP process. Also ...
 Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about his current work on improving mutation testing in Bitcoin Core. Mutation testing is a technique that allows developers to assess the effectiveness of their tests by intentionally adding systemic bugs, called mutants, to the codebase...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core and announces deployment of a new BIP process. Also ...
 After more than two months of discussion on the mailing list and another round of amendments to the proposal, it became clear this week that BIP3 had achieved rough consensus...
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core and announces deployment of a new BIP process. Also ...
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René Pickhardt and Craig Raw joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #387: - Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug - Using Ark as a channel factory - Draft BIP for silent payment descriptors - And more You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #387.
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 01/14/2026 · 1h 24m
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #387 is here: - warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core - summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory - links to a draft BIP for silent payment descriptors - Optech Newsletter #387 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #387
This week’s newsletter warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core, summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory, ...
 Bitcoin Core posted a notice of a bug in the legacy wallet migration feature in versions 30.0 and 30.1...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #387
This week’s newsletter warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core, summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory, ...
 René Pickhardt wrote on Delving Bitcoin about his discussions and ideas around whether Ark’s best use case might be as a flexible channel factory rather than as an end-user payment solution...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #387
This week’s newsletter warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core, summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory, ...
 Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal for a draft BIP, which defines a new top-level descriptor script expression sp() for silent payments...
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #387
This week’s newsletter warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core, summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory, ...
 Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on
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Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #386: - A notice about the wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core - Building a vault using blinded co-signers - BIP for Peer feature negotiation - Year 2106 timestamp overflow - BIP54 timestamp restriction for a timestamp overflow soft fork - Mitigating a CTV footgun - CTV activation meeting - OP_CHECKCONSOLIDATION to enable cheaper consolidations - Hash-based signatures post-quantum Bitcoin - And more You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov to discuss Newsletter #386.
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 01/06/2026 · 2h 2m
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...
 Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on
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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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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 12/24/2025 · 3h 43m