NEW FROM THE INSIDER EDITION: SPHINCS+ was introduced as a proposal to add a post-quantum signature scheme to bitcoin. There's rough consensus, that at some point, we'll need to transition to post-quantum signatures. SPHINCS+ is a promising path forward. In our latest post, breaks down the proposal and analyzes its various components. Full post here 👇 https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/sphincs

Every week, sits through hours of developer calls and talks to bring a curated update to the inbox. This week's post covers ‘s Quantum Bitcoin Summit and various FOSS projects. Subscribe & get the email every Monday 👇 https://insider.btcpp.dev/s/last-week-in-bitcoin

NEW FROM THE INSIDER EDITION: Bitch@ is going nuts. Yesterday, we saw a native Cashu wallet built into the Bitchat app. Januszg and co. decided to do a deep dive into the integration and outline some of its real world applications. Our take? It's a promising tool for anonymous, offline bitcoin-denominated payments. Check it out 👇 https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/knock-knock-its-cashu-bitch

NEW FROM THE INSIDER EDITION: It might be Paper Bitcoin Summer, but some of us still want private, bitcoin payments. For his latest piece, Januszg covers Shielded CSV - a payments protocol that can be built on top of bitcoin. Tl;dr - it's scalable, pretty damn private, and relies on bitcoin for the ordering of its nullifiers. https://open.substack.com/pub/btcpp/p/some-of-us-still-want-private-bitcoin?r=2c4bjq&utm_medium=ios

On this week’s episode of BTC++ Insider Edition, spoke with about Amethyst and building on Nostr! https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/bitcoin-insider-edition-vitor-pamplona?r=2c4bjq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player

NEW FROM THE INSIDER EDITION: F2Pool and MARA are mining Taproot Annexes. In this week’s post, describes Taproot Annexes, what they’re for, and who might leverage them. Tl;dr - it provides anyone unlimited data storage on bitcoin within the block size limit and commits data directly into the chain. But, it doesn’t come without risks. Check out the full post below for the breakdown 👇 https://btcpp.substack.com/p/f2pool-and-mara-are-mining-taproot

At privacy edition in Riga sat down with attendees and speakers for a behind the scenes chat with the builders at the frontier of privacy on bitcoin. Catch today's chat on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lQCoNh1zC8 Don't miss another edition of Insider Edition. Subscribe today -> https://insider.btcpp.dev

NEW: Some BitVM-based bridges may implement emergency upgrade paths when they first hit mainnet. This would enable a security council to immediately spend funds out of the bridge and bypass the fraud proof mechanism entirely. In our latest post, Janusz explores how teams may set up these spend paths and how users can verify their existence. Find the full post here: https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/bitvm-based-bridges-and-emergency