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The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most important technical news happening in Bitcoin, along with resources that help them learn more. To help our readers stay up-to-date with Bitcoin, we’re republishing the latest issue of this newsletter below. Remember to subscribe to receive this content straight to your inbox.

This week’s newsletter announces a change of networks for several IRC channels and celebrates Optech’s 150th newsletter. Also included are our regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, new software releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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Celebrating Optech Newsletter #150

by John Newbery, Founder, Optech

This is the 150th regular Optech weekly newsletter that we’ve written for the Bitcoin technical community. Pausing only for short breaks around the Christmas holidays, we’ve published digests of the most important events in Bitcoin and Lightning development every week since June 2018.

Optech was started with some very simple goals: to help Bitcoin businesses adopt technologies that allow Bitcoin to scale, and to highlight the amazing technical work happening in the open source Bitcoin community. Although we couldn’t foresee exactly what form that would take three years ago, it’s a mission that we continue to believe in, and that guides all the work we do. Since June 2018, we’ve:

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