Announcements

• Respect people’s privacy
• Interaction and asking questions are encouraged
• Chatham House Rules
• Join our Telegram group (https://t.me/BitcoinAustin) QR or Sphinx Chat
• Bitcoiner Jobs

Events

• bitcoin ++, June 7-10
• Austin Lightning Devs #2

Notable Code Updates

• OldestFirstCoinSelection (bdk)
• Tor congestion control

Research

• Wallet policies for descriptors
• ROAST - async threshold signatures w/ schnorr
• Quantum Protections PQ TR Commitment
• Verifiable Random Function (VRF) in secp256k1?
• Blockchain Commons Multisig Scenario
• Bulletproofs++
• Block propogation graph

Taproot & MuSig

• Taproot wallet support in lnd
• Musig signing added to lnd rpc
• MuSig vs MPC
• P2TR in Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core

• 23.0 release notes
• Indexes on pruned nodes
• BIP 50 Chain Fork Post-Mortem
• Script to generate bitcoin.conf

Contract Protocols

• Simple Vault w/ APO Concerns
• Spacechains by Ruben Somsen (CTV Spacechains)
• DLC Channels

Lightning

• Blind Signing Risks
• Taro explainer video(useful to learn about merkle trees)

Projects

• Bitcoin Chess
• Vanilla JS wallet (642 lines of code)
• Lightning Receiving Browser Wallet
• Standard Sats (Lightning-native synthetic assets)
• Lightning Multiplexer by Bottlepay
• Miniscript coming to Ledger
• Blockchain Commons Q1 Report
• MyCitadel Desktop Wallet