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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #398

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #397

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396

This week’s newsletter describes a collision-resistant hash function using Bitcoin Script and summarizes continued discussion of Lightning Network traffic analysis. Also included are our regular

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395

This week’s newsletter describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations and links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394

This week’s newsletter looks at a proposed BIP for including supplemental information with output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions on the

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393

This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about recent OP_RETURN usage and describes a protocol to enforce covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes. Also included are our

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392

This week’s newsletter summarizes discussion of improving worst-case silent payment scanning performance and describes an idea for enabling many spending conditions in a single key. Also included

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391

This week’s newsletter links to work on a constant-time parallelized UTXO database, summarizes a new high-level language for writing Bitcoin Script, and describes an idea to mitigate dust attacks.

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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 updates to services and client software, announcing new

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390

This week’s newsletter summarizes a more efficient approach to garbled circuits and links to an LN-Symmetry update. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from