Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #223 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305. News Light client protocol for silent payments (1:...

4 Jun 20241h 45min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠. News Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27) Challenges in rewarding...

27 Mai 20241h 23min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss ⁠Newsletter #303⁠. News Anonymous usage tokens (1:58) BIP39 seed phrase splitting (31:48) Alternative to BitVM (38:05)...

21 Mai 202455min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠. News Release of utreexod beta (0:56) BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitment...

16 Mai 202447min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #301⁠. News Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00) Bitcoin...

9 Mai 20241h

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss ⁠Newsletter #300⁠. News CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59) Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07) Arres...

2 Mai 20241h 5min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠. News Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56) BIP editors update (20:08) Selected Q&A...

25 Apr 202449min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠. News What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42) Changes to services and client software Pho...

19 Apr 202454min