Bitcoin Optech: documentation, newsletters, and original research helping businesses use Bitcoin more efficiently
bitcoinops.org/Posted Mar 9, 2019, 10:33 PM UTC
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It looks like these are being published about once every week or two? We should consider stickying the new ones on r/Bitcoin for a day or so when they are published so they don't get lost in the fray.
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Yeah they don't get much upvotes and go down under easily, perhaps because people are unfamiliar with the name yet? Which is a pity, because of the high quality content.
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Thanks for submitting them in the past! Is there anything we could do on our side that you think would help? E.g. more detailed page titles or something. Looking at the list, I realize that "Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #nn" is probably whatever the opposite of click bait is. :-)
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I realize that "Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #nn" is probably whatever the opposite of click bait is. :-)
That's exactly what I've been thinking, too :)
The name is a bit "inexpressive" (I like it, but it's probably won't get an unfamiliar user to click on the link). What I tried in the past is to give a brief summary in the title of what it is about: Bitcoin Optech #24 (weekly newsletter for technical developments on Bitcoin) (5 upvotes), or to put the topics of the particular issue into the title: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #19 (c-lightning, overt ASICBoost, BIP69, Lightning Residency/Hackday etc) (25 upvotes). According to this very comprehensive samplesize (haha), the latter approach seems to attract more attention :) But maybe it's just that the topics of that specific issue were more interesting for the readers.
I think mentioning the topics definitely helps at least a little though, because it shows that it's a legit "deep dive" newsletter, not some random news aggregator site (of which there are plenty being posted here, too).
Hope that helps :) Appreciate your work!
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A newsletter every week since June 2018 (except that we took two weeks off for the end-of-year holidays) and special features intermittently. I don't know if stickying all of them is appropriate though, as often the content can get pretty technical (and there's also slow news weeks).
However, if you think it'd be useful, we'd be happy to poke a mod or something on weeks when we think we have especially high-quality and accessible content.
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ty OP
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If you want to just jump into our most liked content, here are some positive comments Optech has received on some of our recent newsletters and original research (with links added by us):
---Mark (Murch) Erhardt, community-elected moderator for the Bitcoin StackExchange (source)
---Marty, author of Marty's Bent Newsletter and host of Tales from the Crypt podcast (source)
---Max Hillebrand, World Crypto Network (source)
---Stephan Livera, host of the Stephan Livera Podcast (source)
---Xavi Soler, LND contributor (source)
---Guy Swann, The Cryptoconomy Podcast (source)
---Jameson Lopp, CTO Casa (source)
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