Bitcoin Optech #318: Bitcoin Mining Dev Mailing List

This issue announces a new mailing list to discuss Bitcoin mining, and includes regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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announces a new mailing list to discuss Bitcoin mining;
summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange;
"Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!"

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