Bitcoin Optech newsletter #371 is here: - announces the availability of a workbook dedicated to provable cryptography - Bitcoin Core 29.1, Eclair v0.13.0, Bitcoin Core 30.0rc1 - Optech Newsletter #371 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #371

This week’s newsletter announces the availability of a workbook dedicated to provable cryptography. Also included are our regular sections with l...

Jonas Nick posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce a short workbook he created for a four day event to “teach developers the basics of provable cryptography, […] consisting of cryptographic definitions, propositions, proofs and exercises.”

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #371

This week’s newsletter announces the availability of a workbook dedicated to provable cryptography. Also included are our regular sections with l...

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Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin join Optech to discuss Newsletter #370: Changing consensus 37:56 Details about the design of Simplicity 1:52 Draft BIP for adding elliptic curve operations to tapscript 19:23 Draft BIP for OP_TWEAKADD Releases and release candidates 59:40 Core Lightning v25.09 1:00:24 Bitcoin Core 29.1rc2 Notable code and documentation changes 1:00:55 LDK #3726 1:02:24 LDK #4019 1:03:09 LND #9455 1:04:00 LND #10103 1:05:20 HWI #795 You can listen on our website:


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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 09/10/2025 · 1h 6m

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discussed Newsletter #368: News 0:30 Draft BIP for block template sharing 28:07 Trusted delegation of script evaluation Changes to services and client software 33:07 ZEUS v0.11.3 released 33:25 Rust Utreexo resources 34:11 Peer-observer tooling and call to action 37:22 Bitcoin Core Kernel-based node announced 38:23 SimplicityHL released 39:17 LSP plugin for BTCPay Server 39:42 Proto mining hardware and software announced 40:46 Oracle resolution demo using CSFS 41:11 Relai adds taproot support Releases and release candidates 43:09 LND v0.19.3-beta 43:29 Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 43:55 Core Lightning v25.09rc2 Notable code and documentation changes 44:33 Bitcoin Core #32896 46:57 Bitcoin Core #33106 1:02:49 Core Lightning #8467 1:03:26 Core Lightning #8354 1:04:07 Eclair #3103 1:04:43 Eclair #3134 1:05:56 LDK #3897

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

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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...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #370

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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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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

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367 is here: - LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 - Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 - Optech Newsletter #367 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrast...

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Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt were joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366: - Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo - Continued discussion about lowering the minimum relay feerate - Peer block template sharing to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies - A watch only wallet PR Review Club - And more You can listen on our website:

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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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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 08/06/2025 · 1h 56m

Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner (@jesseposner) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #364: News 0:53 LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability 15:16 Chain code withholding for multisig scripts 38:46 Research indicates common Bitcoin primitives are compatible with quantum-resistant signature algorithms Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange 57:36 How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? 1:01:29 Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive? 1:03:21 Spending a taproot output through the keypath and scriptpath? Releases and release candidates 1:04:26 Libsecp256k1 v0.7.0 Notable code and documentation changes 1:05:16 Bitcoin Core #32521 1:15:00 Bitcoin Core #31829 1:19:51 LDK #3801 1:21:11 LDK #3842 1:21:57 BIPs #1890 1:23:53 BOLTs #1232

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #364 is here: - summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND - describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer services - examines the impact of switching to quantum-resistant signature algorithms on HD wallets, scriptless multisig, and silent payments - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #364 Recap

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Matt Morehouse posted to Delving Bitcoin about a vulnerability affecting past versions of LND that he previously responsibly disclosed...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Jurvis Tan posted to Delving Bitcoin about research he performed with Jesse Posner into improving the privacy and security of multisig collaborative custody...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Jesse Posner posted to Delving Bitcoin several links to research papers that indicate that quantum-resistant signature algorithms provide comparable primitives to those currently used in Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? - Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive? - Spending a taproot output through the keypath and scriptpath?

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

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Davidson Souza joined Optech discuss Newsletter #363: Changes to services and client software 0:45 Floresta v0.8.0 released 20:38 RGB v0.12 announced 25:34 FROST signing device available 29:44 Gemini adds taproot support 38:14 Electrum 4.6.0 released Releases and release candidates 38:51 LND v0.19.2-beta Notable code and documentation changes 39:38 Bitcoin Core #32604 40:55 Bitcoin Core #32618 43:03 Bitcoin Core #31553 46:53 Core Lightning #7725 47:23 Eclair #2716 52:19 LDK #3628 53:22 LDK #3890 54:30 LND #10001

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #363 is here: - summarizes changes to services/client software including Floresta, RGB, Frostsnap and more - LND v0.19.2-beta - Optech Newsletter #363 Recap

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release can...

Changes to services and client software: - Floresta v0.8.0 released - RGB v0.12 announced - FROST signing device available - Gemini adds taproot support - Electrum 4.6.0 released

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363

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Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao joined Optech to discuss ⁠⁠Newsletter #362⁠⁠: News 0:34 Compressed descriptors Bitcoin Core PR Review Club 9:14 Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds Releases and release candidates 46:22 LND v0.19.2-beta.rc2 Notable code and documentation changes 47:17 Core Lightning #8377 50:41 BDK #1957 51:18 BIPs #1888

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #362 is here: - briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes - recaps the "Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds" PR Review Meeting - #362 Recap Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

Josh Doman posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce a library he’s written that encodes output script descriptors into a binary format that reduces their size by about 40%...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds is a PR by glozow that changes TxOrphanage eviction logic to guarantee each peer the resources for at least 1 maximum-size package worth of orphan resolution...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

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Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black joined Optech this week to discuss: - A new onion message network - CTV+CSFS and benefits to PTLCs and BitVM - Vault descriptors - The CTV and CSFS open letter - Winternitz signatures using OP_CAT - Commit/reveal function for post-quantum recovery - OP_TXHASH variant with support for transaction sponsorship - And more

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black to discuss Newsl...

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #361 is here: - describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN - CTV+CSFS advantages for PTLCs - Vault output script descriptor - Continued discussion about CTV+CSFS advantages for BitVM - Open letter about CTV and CSFS - OP_CAT enables Winternitz signatures - Commit/reveal function for post-quantum recovery - OP_TXHASH variant with support for transaction sponsorship - Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Olaluwa Osuntokun posted to Delving Bitcoin about allowing nodes to use separate connections for relaying onion messages than they use for relaying HTLCs...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Developers continued a previous discussion about the benefits of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV), OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS), or both together for various deployed and imagined protocols...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Sjors Provoost posted to Delving Bitcoin to discuss how the recovery information for a wallet using vaults could be specified using an output script descriptor...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Developers continued the previous discussion about how the availability of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV) and OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS) opcodes could “reduce [BitVM] transaction sizes by approximately 10x” and allow non-interactive peg-ins...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

James O’Beirne posted an open letter to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing signed by 66 individuals (as of this writing), many of them contributors to Bitcoin-related projects...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Developer Conduition posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a prototype implementation that uses the proposed OP_CAT opcode and other Script instructions to allow quantum-resistant signatures using the Winternitz protocol to be verified by consensus logic...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Tadge Dryja posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a method for allowing individuals to spend UTXOs using quantum-vulnerable signature algorithms even if fast quantum computers would otherwise allow redirecting (stealing) the output of any attempted spend...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

Steven Roose posted to Delving Bitcoin about a variation on OP_TXHASH called TXSIGHASH that extends 64-byte schnorr signatures with additional bytes to indicate what fields in the transaction (or related transactions) the signature commits to...

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...

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Earlier today Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma joined @Murch and @schmidty to discuss Newsletter #360: - Fingerprinting Bitcoin Core nodes - Descriptors and BIP380 - Questions from the bitcoin stack exchange about blocking knots nodes, OP_CAT, compact blocks, selfish mining - And more Catch up:

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #360 is here: - summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages - seeks feedback about possibly removing support for H in BIP32 paths in the BIP380 specification of descriptors - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360

This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...

Daniela Brozzoni posted to Delving Bitcoin about research she conducted with developer Naiyoma into identifying the same node on multiple networks using the addr messages it sends...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360

This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...

Ava Chow posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to ask whether any software generates descriptors using uppercase-H to indicate a hardened BIP32 key derivation step...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360

This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Is there any way to block Bitcoin Knots nodes as my peers? - What does OP_CAT do with integers? - Async Block Relaying With Compact Block Relay (BIP152) - Why is attacker revenue in selfish mining disproportional to its hash-power?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360

This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...

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