Incredible! Let me know how it goes for you
You could try rust?
There are some materials for the seminars that are on the same site which are very useful as well. But you’ll miss the teammates, coaches, and accountability pieces.
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special is here:
- notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2024
- feature: Vulnerability disclosures
- feature: Cluster mempool
- feature: P2P transaction relay
- feature: Covenants and script upgrades
- feature: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects
- feature: Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/
In 2024, Optech summarized more than two dozen vulnerability disclosures...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#vulnreports
An idea for a mempool redesign from 2023 became a particular focus for several Bitcoin Core developers throughout 2024...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#cluster
Fee management has always been a challenge in the decentralized Bitcoin protocol, but widespread use of contract protocols such as LN-Penalty and ongoing research into newer and more complex protocols has made it more important than ever to ensure users can pay and increase fees on demand. Bitcoin Core contributors have been working on this problem for years, and 2024 saw the public release of several new features that significantly improve the situation...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#p2prelay
Several developers devoted much of their time in 2024 towards advancing proposals for covenants, scripting upgrades, and other changes that would support advanced contract protocols such as joinpools and channel factories...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#covs
Optech covered major releases of popular infrastructure projects throughout the year...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#releases
In Optech’s seventh year, we published:
- 51 newsletters
- 35 new topic pages
- over 120,000 words, a 350pg book equivalent
- a wallet guide for developers
- over 59hr of podcasts, with 488,000 words of transcripts w/75 guests
- 200+ non-English translations
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#optech
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this special newsletter with special guests Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Brandon Black on Riverside.fm Monday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
For anyone who has the Optech newsletters sitting in their email box or in a todo list somewhere, waiting to be read, feeling guilty...
We offer amnesty this week: read the 2024 year-in-review and all is forgiven. Start 2025 clean.
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I get the impression that this is pretty common for Optech readers.
Would some periodic less-technical “Optech decoded” or “Optech translated” summary be helpful?
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special is here:
- notes Bitcoin developments during each month of 2024
- feature: Vulnerability disclosures
- feature: Cluster mempool
- feature: P2P transaction relay
- feature: Covenants and script upgrades
- feature: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects
- feature: Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/
In 2024, Optech summarized more than two dozen vulnerability disclosures...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#vulnreports
An idea for a mempool redesign from 2023 became a particular focus for several Bitcoin Core developers throughout 2024...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#cluster
Fee management has always been a challenge in the decentralized Bitcoin protocol, but widespread use of contract protocols such as LN-Penalty and ongoing research into newer and more complex protocols has made it more important than ever to ensure users can pay and increase fees on demand. Bitcoin Core contributors have been working on this problem for years, and 2024 saw the public release of several new features that significantly improve the situation...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#p2prelay
Several developers devoted much of their time in 2024 towards advancing proposals for covenants, scripting upgrades, and other changes that would support advanced contract protocols such as joinpools and channel factories...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#covs
Optech covered major releases of popular infrastructure projects throughout the year...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#releases
In Optech’s seventh year, we published:
- 51 newsletters
- 35 new topic pages
- over 120,000 words, a 350pg book equivalent
- a wallet guide for developers
- over 59hr of podcasts, with 488,000 words of transcripts w/75 guests
- 200+ non-English translations
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/12/20/#optech
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this special newsletter with special guests Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Brandon Black on Riverside.fm Monday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
Thank you to Dave Harding for authoring this Optech year-in-review and for being the primary author of the Optech Newsletter year round.
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I have this BIP353 address: zanyasp01@phoenixwallet.me
Unsure if Ive connected this to my nostrils
Optech has a fountain account and lightning address there
optech@fountain.fm
Absolute unit of a newsletter this week from Optech nostr:note188yaanrumutu95ty3z3hcdtg8c2z5xr7398uh6vr7ap5n6un4vjsls8cc0
It’s easier and more fun for most people to speculate than dig into the mostly public info.
You can see who contributes to Bitcoin core and most of who funds those contributors is public information.
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Doesn’t seem like raphdroidt693 in the YouTube comments had anything to add on this other than speculation
I don’t see any involvement of blackrock in the Bitcoin Core software project
