Bitcoin Core posted a notice of a bug in the legacy wallet migration feature in versions 30.0 and 30.1...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#bitcoin-core-wallet-migration-bug

René Pickhardt wrote on Delving Bitcoin about his discussions and ideas around whether Ark’s best use case might be as a flexible channel factory rather than as an end-user payment solution...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#using-ark-as-a-channel-factory

Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal for a draft BIP, which defines a new top-level descriptor script expression sp() for silent payments...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#draft-bip-for-silent-payment-descriptors

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on 

http://Riverside.fm

 Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

https://riverside.com/studio/bitcoin-optech

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #387 is here:

- warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core
- summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory
- links to a draft BIP for silent payment descriptors
- Optech Newsletter #387 Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/

Bitcoin Core posted a notice of a bug in the legacy wallet migration feature in versions 30.0 and 30.1...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#bitcoin-core-wallet-migration-bug

René Pickhardt wrote on Delving Bitcoin about his discussions and ideas around whether Ark’s best use case might be as a flexible channel factory rather than as an end-user payment solution...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#using-ark-as-a-channel-factory

Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal for a draft BIP, which defines a new top-level descriptor script expression sp() for silent payments...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#draft-bip-for-silent-payment-descriptors

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on http://Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.com/studio/bitcoin-optech