This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for speeding up Bitcoin Core initial block download, with a proof-of-concept implementation that shows a roughly 5x speed up compared to Bitcoin Core’s defaults. Also included are our regular sections summarizing…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #350.

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular…

This week’s newsletter describes research into tradeoffs between usability and security in threshold signatures, summarizes an approach to convert nested threshold signatures into a single-layer signing group, and examines the extent to which data could be…