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@bitschmidty

7 months

Some disturbing and irrefutable evidence of a back door being put into Bitcoin Core has come to light in recent days. While I usually abstain from engaging in such discussions, the egregiousness and malice in this instance requires me to speak up…

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@bitschmidty

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Bitcoin is a great project, and it's really cool to participate!

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@bitschmidty

5 years

9,000 commits reviewed (nearly 2,000 merges), over 1,500 mailing list posts, many thousands of lines of IRC logs, and numerous other public sources. 50 newsletter issues and over 200 printed pages worth of content @hrdng 🙏

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

5 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #78 Year-in-Review Special is here: - summarizes developments in Bitcoin during 2019 - major releases of infrastructure projects - notable technical conferences / events - new open source infrastructure - Bitcoin Optech efforts

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@bitschmidty

5 years

If you are a developer, work at a Bitcoin company, build on Bitcoin, or are an academic, consider joining the Taproot Review sessions. "to either vocally support the proposals, advocate for changes to the proposals, or clearly explain why the proposals shouldn’t be adopted"

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

5 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #69 is here: - invites participation in a structured taproot proposal review - highlights updates to two Bitcoin wallets - requests C-Lightning & Bitcoin Core RC testing - lists changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects

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@bitschmidty

7 months

@lopp @0xB10C Im not sure how I could have made it any more sarcastic

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@bitschmidty

4 years

If you are looking to get up to speed on the taproot soft fork activation discussions, I have a series of recommended readings. First, "Why Activate Taproot?"

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@bitschmidty

7 months

In wrapping up, I think its important that was call out these betrayal of our values. It’s not in Bitcoin’s best interest that Bitcoin Core development remain transparent, thoughtful, accurate, or engaged with the community. On these points, I think we all can agree.

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@bitschmidty

6 years

One way to make looking up Bitcoin addresses, transactions, hashes, or blocks on @Blockstream 's Block Explorer even faster: using a custom Search Engine. This setup allows you to type "exp <tab> <paste address|txid|hash|block>" in your URL bar. Zero to tx details in 2 seconds.

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Bitcoin on the brink of all time high on news of new Bitcoin developer funding and training organization

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

4 years

Hello world! Today we launch Brink, a totally independent nonprofit organization to fund and support open source Bitcoin protocol development.

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@bitschmidty

5 years

Looking to read more about schnorr and taproot? Ive put together a list of resources that Ive found helpful.

BitBlockBoom! Taproot Schnorr and the Next Soft Fork Takeaway Notes

Optech Executive Briefing The Next Softfork A more technical version of the BitBlockBoom! talk. Presentation Slides The Schnorr Signature & Taproot Softfork Proposal Article from BitMEX Research...

docs.google.com

Bryan Bishop

@kanzure

5 years

Transcript: @BitSchmidty on Taproot and Schnorr signatures for bitcoin #bitblockboom @bitcoinoptech

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Hey @chrislarsensf , how about a $5 million "change the code" campaign to finance the Bitcoin open source developers that are securing, testing, hardening, scaling, and innovating the software underpinning the entire ecosystem?

Chris Larsen

@chrislarsensf

2 years

Last year, I published an op-ed calling for Bitcoin to consider a move away from PoW to a low energy validation method. Today, I’d like to share an update on how my thinking has evolved on this front.

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This PR not only makes sure that the HELP TEXT documentation accurately describes the functioning of the code, it ALSO adds additional testing, which I think everyone can agree, threatens the credibility of the project as a whole.

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@bitschmidty

7 months

As an aside, orgs whose purpose it is to cover these developments, like @bitcoinoptech were completely silent on PR27832, instead deciding to cover thoughtful technical discussion on an open email list by pseudonymous developers like "John Law". The guy IS NOT EVEN ON TWITTER.

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@bitschmidty

7 months

The developer then goes on to say, and I quote “Anyone can open a PR” which clearly just encourages participation by anyone in an open source project. Surely, this cannot stand.

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Tell me you're not subscribed to the @bitcoinoptech free weekly dev newsletter covering Bitcoin Core mailing list discussions, IRC meetings, and Bitcoin/LN pull requests without telling me you're not subscribed to the @bitcoinoptech newsletter

Ari Paul ⛓️

@AriDavidPaul

2 years

@PeterMcCormack @RyanSAdams Yes we do. Current rough plan by core devs is to deliver it 2024-2025 as I understand it, as a soft fork. No other plausible way for BTC to be used by a non-trivial % of world. LN can’t scale in decentralized form without some change or major innovation as I understand it.

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@bitschmidty

7 months

Yes, this is sarcasm.

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@bitschmidty

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It turns out that this maintainer openly admits to lack of collusion with other Bitcoin Core maintainers. Worse yet, this maintainer is funded in a NO STRINGS ATTACHED arrangement by one of the biggest and oldest Bitcoin companies in the space.

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Theres a narrative that nothing is happening in #Bitcoin development. We wrote the equivalent of a 200-page book on Bitcoin developments in 2022 alone. tldr is in this week's @bitcoinoptech newsletter:

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

2 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #231 : 2022 Year-in-Review Special is here: - notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2022 - feature: Replace-By-Fee - feature: Major releases of popular projects - feature: Bitcoin Optech - feature: Soft fork proposals

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7 months

It seems while Core developers were busy with their multi-year personal “pet” projects like adding encrypted communication between nodes, making it easier to run a node using “ASSUME”UTXO, fixing bugs, and adding test coverage, this PR also got reviewed and merged under the radar

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@bitschmidty

7 months

When confronted with this evidence, at least one of the Bitcoin Core maintainers thought it was a good idea to candidly and transparently address the community’s concerns on Twitter. That’s where it really gets concerning…

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@bitschmidty

7 months

It seems that buried under layers of a completely open development process, PR 27832 was snuck in to Bitcoin Core

doc: Clarify -datacarriersize, add -datacarriersize=2 tests by maflcko · Pull Request #27832 ·...

Clarify with a test that -datacarriersize applies to the serialized size of the scriptPubKey, not the size of the pushed data. So for example, -datacarriersize=2 will reject a raw(6a01aa), even th...

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@bitschmidty

5 years

Blockstream Green is the Bitcoiner's Wallet. Happy for the sleek redesign of the Green mobile apps to go live and for the secure foundation the team has built to innovate from!

Blockstream

@Blockstream

5 years

We're excited to announce #BlockstreamGreen ! As a full redesign & update to our GreenAddress apps, Green provides 2-of-2 multisig security, hardware wallet support, 2-factor authentication, & many more exciting features we know you'll love! 💚📲⚡️🌊

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Carnivore pizza crust recipe: 10 egg yolks very lightly sautéed

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@bitschmidty

7 months

Worse yet, the PR was open for TWO MONTHS and “ACK”d by long time contributors completely funding-unaffiliated with the author. How did this happen?...

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Meanwhile...

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #90 is here: - summarizes several questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange - describes notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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@bitschmidty

5 years

Learn some taproot and schnorr! Even if you are not very technical, the jupyter notebooks allow you to simply run/tweak the code. And behind the scenes you’re running your own regtest taproot-capable bitcoind.

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

5 years

Last month, we held two workshops on the schnorr/taproot proposal. We're releasing all content (videos, slides, transcripts, jupyter notebooks) from those workshops so anyone can learn about the proposals and play with the technology:

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3 years

@cmsholdings @udiWertheimer

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@bitschmidty

2 years

It is not only concerning and dangerous to arrest software developers based on how some users could use the software, but it is also political. How many software libraries and developers were involved in HSBCs laundering of ~$1b of drug money?

Stephan Livera

@stephanlivera

2 years

Tornado Cash developer being arrested by Netherland's FIOD is concerning news. Imagine if road builders were being arrested "because criminals use them"? Or home curtain installers? Wanting privacy should not be considered a crime.

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5 years

Bitcoin transactions signaling RBF (BIP125) hit an all time high recently, hitting nearly 9% of all transactions. Hopefully people are prepared for more significant fees to return to Bitcoin.

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@bitschmidty

6 months

Bitcoin drama, accusations, and hysteria… Meanwhile, Bitcoin engineers like @dergoegge calmly, quietly, and responsibly finding and disclosing Bitcoin implementation CONSENSUS bugs...

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

6 months

"Disclosure: Btcd consensus bugs due to usage of signed transaction version" discovered by @dergoegge 👏 "Btcd prior to version v0.24.0 does not correctly implement the consensus rules outlined in BIP 68 and BIP 112, making it susceptible to consensus failures..."

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Thank you to @udiWertheimer for making this happen and for this creative developer funding channel!

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@bitcoinbrink

3 years

Honored to have received a $200,000 donation to our developer funding efforts from @cmsholdings ! Thank you for your support!

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1 year

@moneyball - Bitcoin Development Philosophy: - Onboarding to Bitcoin Core:

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@bitschmidty

7 months

@sircryptotips @vaneck_us @bitcoinbrink VanEck made the pledge no strings attached. We wouldn’t have accepted if they made any indication they wanted to influence development direction.

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Shout out to @michaelfolkson who is helping build up a great repository of question and answers in the Bitcoin Stack Exchange in addition to regular contributors like @murchandamus @achow101 @prayankgahlot RedGrittyBrick @pwuille Raghav Sood @MatthewZipkin

User Michael Folkson

Q&A for Bitcoin users, developers, and enthusiasts

bitcoin.stackexchange.com

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #112 is here: - links to discussion about routed coinswaps - includes Bitcoin StackExchange Q&A - LND 0.11.0-beta - lists notable commits to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Second, "BIP 8, BIP 9 Or Modern Soft Fork Activation: How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next" by @AaronvanW gives a nice less-technical summary of activation methods

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@bitschmidty

5 months

Me reading all the rumors about #Bitcoin Core development and Brink

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@bitschmidty

1 year

Thanks to @murchandamus for co-hosting the Bitcoin Optech Podcast with me. Excited to finally launch it and get these valuable discussions out!

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

1 year

Announcing the Bitcoin Optech Podcast! The last few months we've had the pleasure of hosting Twitter Spaces discussions with prominent Bitcoin/Lightning developers & researchers who author the software and mail list posts covered in our newsletters...

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@bitschmidty

4 years

"When segwit @BitPay ?" Looks like now!

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1 year

Who has the @adam3us clone retweet record?

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@bitschmidty

5 months

Means a lot coming from these guys. Congrats @River and @Leishman on 5 years (which is really like 20 years in #Bitcoin )!

River

@River

5 months

River turns 5 years old today 🥳 Thank you to our wonderful clients, supporters, partners, and amazing team for getting us where we are. And thank you to all Bitcoin core devs! We stand on the shoulders of giants, so we're donating $50k to support them through @bitcoinbrink 🧡

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@bitschmidty

4 months

@hodlonaut Alternatively, quite a bit of information was asked for and public information was given.

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Over 4000 subscribers to the @bitcoinoptech email newsletter 🚀

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

3 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #145 is here: - describes progress on activating taproot - summarizes an update to LN offers for stuck payments - relays a request for feedback on anchor outputs in LND - announces the Sapio smart contract development toolkit

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Thanks @philipglazman and @RiverFinancial for the field report on PSBTs and descriptors in the newsletter this week. If you are working on Bitcoin tech and want to share with @bitcoinoptech 's developer audience, feel free to reach out!

Field Report: Using Descriptors and PSBT at River Financial

A field report about how River Financial uses Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) and Output Script Descriptors in its wallet software.

bitcoinops.org

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #108 is here: - describes proposal to upgrade LN channel commitment tx formats w/o new channels - includes a River Financial field report about PSBTs/descriptors - Q&A - C-Lightning 0.9.0rc3 - Bitcoin Core 0.20.1rc1 - notable PRs

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Thank you to all the @bitcoinoptech contributors over the years as well as reviewers, translators, and sponsors that made 200 newsletters happen!

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

2 years

Every fifty newsletters, we take a moment to highlight some of Optech’s major accomplishments. That’s not what we’re doing this year. Instead, we wanted to give you, the readers, your own chance to share some of your admiration for Optech’s contributors...

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@bitcoinoptech

3 months

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #300 is here: - summarizes CTV-like proposal w/commitments in pubkeys - examines Alloy analysis of a contract protocol - announces Bitcoin developer arrests - links to dev meetup summaries - #300 Recap

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@bitschmidty

4 years

The roast on the left feeds my family for a day. The roast on the right feeds my family for a year.

Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola

@Frances_Coppola

4 years

@CovWayne @mutatrum @Cipherhoodlum @melikmanukyan @mir_btc you've all been sold a myth of divisibility to conceal the fact that satoshis massively inflate the "bitcoin" supply

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@bitschmidty

3 years

IRS anoints the research, education, and open source development of Bitcoin public infrastructure software as tax deductible.

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

3 years

Our 501(c)(3) status has been approved! Brink is now able to accept tax deductible donations.

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@bitschmidty

4 months

We are building a revolutionary financial system on magic internet money. Allocate your time, attention, and resources accordingly.

Anthony Towns

@ajtowns

4 months

But Bitcoin's reached its "ETF adoption" phase: short term thinkers being involved is a given. If you want to do anything about it, reward what you want to see more of. Stop gifting your attention to the logo drawers, and try investing it in the long term thinkers instead.

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@bitschmidty

7 months

What a year!

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

7 months

In Optech’s sixth year, we published: - 51 newsletters - a 10-part policy series - 15 new topic pages - over 86,000 words, a 250pg book equivalent - over 50hr of podcasts, with 450,000 words of transcripts w/62 guests - 100s of non-English translations

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@bitschmidty

6 months

See y'all soon

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

6 months

Join Optech later today as we are also joined by special guest Gloria Zhao ( @glozow ) to discuss Newsletter #286

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Incredible donation from an individual, thank you @craighammell 🙏

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

2 years

Honored to have received an extremely generous $1,000,000 donation to our Bitcoin developer funding efforts from @craighammell Thank you for your support, Craig!

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Work anywhere. Get paid in bitcoin (if you want). Build open source software. Help change the world.

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

3 years

The current round of Brink grant applications ends May 17th, so developers working on Bitcoin open source projects, apply soon!

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@bitschmidty

1 year

Bitcoin CoreDev reflections 2022-2023

For a fourth year running, regular Bitcoin Core contributors received a survey to surface priorities and ensure that people feel that they can contribute effectively. Below is a summary of the...

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Then you can dive deeper with @hrdng 's "Taproot activation proposals" and "The Path to Taproot Activation"

From the Bitcoin community on Reddit: Technical: The Path to Taproot Activation

Explore this post and more from the Bitcoin community

www.reddit.com

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@bitschmidty

6 years

This setup is using Google Chrome, but possible with other browsers as well. Since <anything> executes a search, you can use the %s search term placeholder in Chrome: More details here:

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5 years

"it’s in every user’s interest that a large number of technical reviewers examine the proposals for possible flaws before they are implemented and before users are asked to consider upgrading their full nodes to enforce the new rules"

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@bitschmidty

4 years

There is some good content on mailing list threads as well from @ajtowns @TheBlueMatt

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@bitschmidty

4 years

Optech newsletter 101 It’s a long one, lets have some fun Hardware wallets have some new firmware Concerns with signing on a host with malware Attack prompts to sign multiple times Issue is with the stateless designs

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #101 is here: - links to a post/paper about eclipse attacks to steal from LN channels - describes history of a fee overpayment attack affecting hardware wallets - summary of Connection eviction logic tests PR Review Club meeting

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4 years

Thanks to @GustavoJ_Flores and @veriphibtc for the field report about potential fee savings using segwit and batching in the newsletter this week.

Field Report: How segwit and batching could have saved half a billion dollars in fees

A field report, based on research from Veriphi, showing how full segwit and batching adoption could have saved users nearly half a billion dollars in Bitcoin network fees.

bitcoinops.org

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #110 is here: - summarizes discussion of SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and eltoo - includes report showing how 57k BTC of fees could've been saved using segwit & batching - summary of the 'Implement ADDRv2 support' PR Review Club meeting

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5 months

👀🚀🌕

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

5 months

Brink is excited to announce a $3.6m donation to our #Bitcoin development funding efforts from GiveCrypto! Thank you to @brian_armstrong and the @coinbase team as well as @johnhering and @FEhrsam for your support in making this happen!

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3 years

@jfnewbery @bitcoinbrink @bitcoinoptech @BitcoinCorePRs Thank you for everything @jfnewbery !

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@bitschmidty

5 months

Y’all are in for a treat. @hrdng will join @murchandamus to cohost this week. Plus great guests Josie Baker ( @josibake ), Salvatore Ingala ( @salvatoshi ), and Fabian Jahr ( @fjahr )

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

5 months

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Josie Baker ( @josibake ), Salvatore Ingala ( @salvatoshi ), and Fabian Jahr ( @fjahr ) on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

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3 years

Thank you @BlockFiZac and team @BlockFi !

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

3 years

Honored to have received a $150,000 donation to our developer funding efforts from @BlockFi ! Thank you for your support!

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@bitschmidty

7 months

@cguida6 This thread specifically addresses accusations and insinuations made recently about "a backdoor" as well as the integrity of developers and the development process. Not everything is side-taking of the current thing debate.

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Amazing to have @fanquake as a Brinkie

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

2 years

Brink is excited to announce a developer grant for @fanquake to join us in our London office. He will be continuing his maintainer role as well as other projects that he outlines here:

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@rot13maxi @lopp @0xB10C Here is my favorite so far:

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4 months

BIP324 proxy for light clients ( @theStack ), BTC Lisp and Simplicity ( @ajtowns and Russell O’Connor via @blksresearch ) Should be a fun discussion tomorrow...

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 months

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Sebastian Falbesoner ( @theStack ), Anthony Towns ( @ajtowns ), and Russell O’Connor on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

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6 months

Sad I missed the in-person Bitcoin Core PR Review Club on Bitcoin Core #4468 today

Norbert ⚡️

@bitnorbert

6 months

C: [shows pull request] It has 11 commits. Here's one of them, "switch to headers-based sync". Proposes changes to main.cpp. Lines in green shows they are new, right? W: Uhm … G: You're not familiar with GitHub? W: My team runs git, I use svn. G: That functions has two checks.

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4 years

This week in Optech we talk coinpools Another potential add for your privacy tools Your funds with members into a UTXO Cooperating offchain to keep fees low Not just privacy, but also scalability It acts as a sort of channel factory

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #102 is here: - summarizes the CoinPool payment pool proposal - summarizes the WabiSabi coordinated coinjoin protocol - notable changes to ecosystem services and client software

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@bitschmidty

2 months

Enjoy Optech on a Friday! (and a double dose this week). Appreciate your patience as we adjust the newsletter publishing times

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

2 months

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #303 is here: - summarizes a new scheme for anonymous usage tokens that could be used for LN channel announcements and other sybil-resistant protocols - links to discussion about a new BIP39 seed phrase splitting scheme ...

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5 years

There have been over 1,000 Bitcoin blocks where the miner did not claim the available transaction fees, effectively destroying those bitcoin.

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4 months

@hodlonaut The public first and last names from their GitHub or mailing list, etc is what was given.

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5 months

Stickies, Conor, and Glozow In London? You gotta go First the tech to make you think Then you clink and sink Brink drink

gloria (she/her)

@glozow

5 months

If you're in London for @advbitcoin , join us at bitdevs this Wednesday evening in Shoreditch! It's a socratic seminar hosted by @Stphnvlstk @ConorOkus and myself. We'll chat about what's been going on in bitcoin dev/research. Drinks on @bitcoinbrink ;)

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4 years

Special call out to @michaelfolkson (again)/ @LDNBitcoinDevs , @BitcoinMagazine , @stephanlivera , as well as the Bitcoin Sydney and Bitcoin Design communities whose content made up the 'Recently transcribed talks and conversations' section of the newsletter this week!

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #113 is here: - describes proposed change to LN commitment transactions - summarizes discussion of a default signet - links to proposal for standardizing temporarily trusted LN channels - recently transcribed talks/conversations

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3 years

I thought this was a fun and educational article from @0xB10C so I found a way to work it in to the newsletter

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

3 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #159 is here: - includes questions & answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange - continues the 'how to prepare for taproot' series: learn taproot by using it (Optech Workshop) - announces Rust Bitcoin 0.27.0, C-Lightning 0.10.1rc1

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If you want to play around with taproot and schnorr, @bitcoinoptech via @digi_james @Elichai2 @jfnewbery put together some python notebooks to play with, along with slides and videos explaining technical details

Bitcoin Optech Schnorr Taproot Workshop

A self-study course for learning about the schnorr/taproot softfork proposal.

bitcoinops.org

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Udi | BIP-420 🐱

@udiWertheimer

3 years

GUYS WE DID IT Not only we’re going to get @Dennis_Porter_ DESTROYED, we’re also getting a $200K donation to @bitcoinbrink thanks to @cmsholdings Stay tuned for date and time

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@bitschmidty

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Come chat about this defensive soft fork proposal with @darosior later today

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 months

Antoine Poinsot ( @darosior ) posted to Delving Bitcoin about revisiting Matt Corallo’s consensus cleanup proposal from 2019...

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@bitschmidty

3 years

I find these sorts of docs very useful, thank you @glozow !

Bitcoin Merges

@BitcoinMerges

3 years

Merged PR from Gloria Zhao: docs RBF policy and mempool limit exemptions

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@bitschmidty

5 months

Legend.

David A. Harding

@hrdng

5 months

Today is my tenth anniversary as a Bitcoin technical writer. In a decade of contributing, I've made amazing friendships that will last the rest of my life and learned of things more fantastical than most fiction. 1/2

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@bitschmidty

1 year

Theres no one that has given more thought to what the role of Bitcoin PM might look like than @moneyball Looking forward to this conversation and hearing his perspectives!

₿ Steve Lee | #TeamSlowAndSteady

@moneyball

1 year

If you'd like to learn more about what I did from 2017 to 2019 as part of a journey to be a PM on Bitcoin Core, and hear my advice on how to get involved, please join a discussion between @bitschmidty and me. Bring your questions and don't be shy!

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Great to have Christian on BOARD!

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

2 years

Brink is excited to announce that Christian Decker ( @Snyke ) has joined our board! His experience and leadership in Bitcoin are a valuable addition to the board and his Bitcoin and Lightning expertise will help guide our recently formed Grant Committee.

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You can ignore #bitcoin , but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring #bitcoin .

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@bitschmidty

2 years

Within hours of publishing @bitcoinoptech newsletter #201 we have Czech and Japanese full translations, pretty amazing. cs: ja: Thank you @nechteme1 and @techmedia_think !

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #201

今週のニュースレターでは、パッケージリレーのためのBIPドラフトの要約と、 BitcoinのCovenantの設計におけるMiner Extractable Value（MEV）に関する懸念の概要を掲載しています。また、Bitcoin Stack Exchangeのトップの質問とその回答、新しいリリースとリリース候補の発表、人気のあるBitcoinインフラストラクチャソフトウェアの注目す...

bitcoinops.org

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@bitschmidty

7 months

@timechain_ @coryklippsten Good news! VanEck’s donation to us is no strings attached

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@bitschmidty

1 year

@dr_orlovsky @bitcoinoptech Optech covered LNP/BP work a few times in the monthly "Changes to services and client software" newsletter segment and separately a wallet integrating RGB. The weekly "News" section is mostly mailing list driven (where we covered your post previously: )

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #184

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to extend PSBTs with fields for spending outputs constructed using a pay-to-contract protocol and includes our regular sections with summaries of top posts...

bitcoinops.org

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@bitschmidty

3 years

If you have not already, dip your toe into the Bitcoin Core water with this review club

Bitcoin Core PR Reviews

@BitcoinCorePRs

3 years

This week's PR Review Club is a special edition on testing Bitcoin Core release candidates. Even if you've never looked at the source code, you'll be able to follow along and help with the next release. Thanks to @josibake for hosting!

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@bitschmidty

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@champbronc2 We all have a lot to learn

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@bitschmidty

1 year

To the contrary, Bitcoin's development funding is purely free market & voluntary. Either: - a developer voluntarily spends their time - someone voluntarily supports financially if they value the service Its possible neither of these occur. We'll see what the free market decides

Vivek

@VlVEK

2 years

the concept of begging & donations is flawed against the free market economy if bitcoin would collapse without donation to development then it HAS to collapse & die bitcoin should thrive on free market incentives not on begging & scamming the community is rotten to the core

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@bitschmidty

5 years

@danheld Make it financially cheaper to transact privately than publicly. Something like coinjoins with cross-input aggregation (when available).

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@bitschmidty

1 year

@DavidFBailey @TheBitcoinConf If only there was some charitable organization who has a track record of funding Bitcoin developers with donations from the community

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@bitschmidty

5 years

@NicolasDorier @bitcoinoptech You can contribute the testing yourself if you have the time (). Otherwise, I can add it to my queue :)

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@bitschmidty

1 year

Proud to have @dergoegge as a Brinkie!

Brink

@bitcoinbrink

1 year

Brink is excited to announce continued support for Niklas Gögge ( @dergoegge ) in his Bitcoin Core development work. His contributions towards testing, particularly fuzzing, is important to secure Bitcoin Core and uncover critical bugs

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@bitschmidty

6 months

Dr. ₿ 🐝

@RandyMcMillan

6 months

#bitcoin #LightningNetwork @OpenSats @nvk @ODELL @bitcoinoptech @bitcoinbrink @HRF @realtbast

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@bitschmidty

2 years

@raypaxful @jack Ray, let’s chat re: @bitcoinbrink

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@bitschmidty

3 years

After you catch up on 2021's Bitcoin developments, take a stroll down memory lane: Optech's 2020 year in review - Optech's 2019 year in review - Optech's 2018 year in review -

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #27: 2018 Year-in-Review Special

This week’s newsletter is a special year-end edition summarizing notable developments in Bitcoin during all of 2018. Despite the extended length of this newsletter, we regret that it only covers a...

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Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

3 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #180 : 2021 Year-in-Review is here: - notes developments in Bitcoin during each month of 2021 - featured summary: taproot - featured summary: major releases of popular infrastructure projects - featured summary: Bitcoin Optech

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@bitschmidty

3 years

Adding a bit more meat to the @bitcoinoptech newsletter tweets. Let us know if you like it.

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

3 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #169 is here: - summarizes a proposal to add transaction heritage identifiers to Bitcoin - continues the 'how to prepare for taproot' series: output linking - LND 0.13.3-beta release

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@bitschmidty

2 years

I found @glozow 's "Full RBF" notes a great aggregation of links and commentary to calibrate on the latest mempoolfullrbf chatter. Recommended homework if you plan to join the spaces today.

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

2 years

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with @murchandamus and @bitschmidty who will be joined by Gloria Zhao ( @glozow ) and Sergej Kotliar ( @ziggamon ) on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join to discuss or ask questions!

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@bitschmidty

4 years

@ajtowns also put together Taproot Review sessions last year involving 150+ reviewers. You can trawl through the sessions which have some great technical content/links.

GitHub - ajtowns/taproot-review: Taproot Review

Taproot Review. Contribute to ajtowns/taproot-review development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@bitschmidty

4 years

The Optech newsletter is once again back Outlining many a potential attack Potential weakness, not necessarily hacks This is Bitcoin you can never relax With the miner fee the attacker jacks You’re funds are ransomed, like a tax

Bitcoin Optech

@bitcoinoptech

4 years

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #103 is here: - summarizes fee ransom attack against LN users - links to discussion about attack against LN atomicity - reminds about collision attacks on RIPEMD160-based addresses in multiparty protocols - includes popular Q&A

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