Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #233 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #396⁠.News● Collision-resistant hash function for Bitcoin Script (0:30) ● Con...

17 Mar 49min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.News● A standard for stateless VTXO ...

11 Mar 2h 7min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #393.News● Draft BIP for output script descriptor annotations (1:25) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack...

3 Mar 1h 3min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss ⁠Newsletter #393⁠.News● Recent OP_RETURN output statistics (45:54) ● B...

24 Feb 1h 31min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #392⁠.News● Proposal to limit the number of per-group silent payment rec...

24 Feb 1h 32min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #391⁠.News● A constant-time paralleliz...

11 Feb 2h 10min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.News● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48) ● LN-Symmetry ...

4 Feb 1h 3min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠.News● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31) Changes to services and client software● ...

27 Jan 53min