Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361

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> This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus and listing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #357

> This week’s newsletter shares an analysis about syncing full nodes without old witnesses. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #359

BitcoinIsTheFuture

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #366 is here:

- announces draft BIPs for Utreexo
- summarizes continued discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate
- describes a proposal to allow nodes to share their block templates to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies
- recaps the "Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet" PR Review Meeting
- includes a recommendation to readers
- issues a correction to last week’s newsletter
- Optech Newsletter #366 Podcast

Calvin Kim posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce three draft BIPs co-authored by him along with Tadge Dryja and Davidson Souza about the Utreexo validation model...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#draft-bips-proposed-for-utreexo

Gloria Zhao posted to Delving Bitcoin about lowering the default minimum relay feerate by 90% to 0.1 sat/vbyte...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#continued-discussion-about-lowering-the-minimum-relay-feerate

Anthony Towns posted to Delving Bitcoin to suggest full node peers occasionally send each other their current template for the next block using compact block relay encoding...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#peer-block-template-sharing-to-mitigate-problems-with-divergent-mempool-policies

Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet is a PR by achow101 that reduces the amount of manual work required to create a watch-only wallet...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club

Bitcoin++ Insider has begun publishing reader-funded news about technical Bitcoin topics. Two of their free weekly newsletters, Last Week in Bitcoin and This Week in Bitcoin Core, may be especially interesting to regular readers of the Optech newsletter...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#optech-recommends

In last week’s newsletter, we incorrectly described the updated version of BIP360, pay to quantum-resistant hash, as “making exactly the change” that Tim Ruffing showed was secure in his recent paper...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/#correction

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367


Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367 is here:

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

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
