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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #300 is here:

- summarizes a CTV-like proposal that uses commitments embedded in public keys
- examines the analysis of a contract protocol with Alloy
- announces the arrests of Bitcoin developers
- links to summaries of a CoreDev.tech developer meetup
- Optech Newsletter #300 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/01/

Tadge Dryja posted to Delving Bitcoin a proposal for a slightly more efficient version of the core idea of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV)...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/01/#ctv-like-exploding-keys-proposal

Dmitry Petukhov posted to Delving Bitcoin a specification he had created using the Alloy specification language for the simple OP_CAT-based vault. Petukhov used Alloy to find several useful modifications and to highlight important constraints that any potential implementors should observe...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/01/#analyzing-a-contract-protocol-with-alloy

As widely reported elsewhere, two developers of the Samourai privacy-enhanced Bitcoin wallet were arrested last week in relation to their software, based on charges by U.S. law enforcement...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/01/#arrests-of-bitcoin-developers

Many Bitcoin Core contributors met in person for a periodic CoreDev.tech event last month in Berlin. Transcripts for some of the sessions from the event have been provided by attendees...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/01/#coredev-tech-berlin-event

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guest Tadge Dryja on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyxBnyAnnjxN