Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about his current work on improving mutation testing in Bitcoin Core. Mutation testing is a technique that allows developers to assess the effectiveness of their tests by intentionally adding systemic bugs, called mutants, to the codebase...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/16/#an-overview-of-incremental-mutation-testing-in-bitcoin-core

After more than two months of discussion on the mailing list and another round of amendments to the proposal, it became clear this week that BIP3 had achieved rough consensus...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/16/#bip-process-updated

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 #388 is here:

- links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core
- announces deployment of a new BIP process
- Optech Newsletter #388 Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/16/

Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about his current work on improving mutation testing in Bitcoin Core. Mutation testing is a technique that allows developers to assess the effectiveness of their tests by intentionally adding systemic bugs, called mutants, to the codebase...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/16/#an-overview-of-incremental-mutation-testing-in-bitcoin-core

After more than two months of discussion on the mailing list and another round of amendments to the proposal, it became clear this week that BIP3 had achieved rough consensus...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/16/#bip-process-updated

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