Announcements

• Respect people’s privacy
• Interaction and asking questions are encouraged
• Chatham House Rules
• Spiral hiring bitcoin wizards
• Generation Bitcoin & D++ present the Bitcoin Summer Bootcamp for high school & college students

Semi-Regular Installment of Bitcoin Trivia!

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• Mempool Masterclass (June)
• Lightning Class (August)
• Taproot Class (September)

News

• PlebLabs Nostr Dev Course
• Spiral hires first Bitcoin Wizard 🧙
• bitcoin magic beans
• Mutiny Wallet Open Beta
• ZapplePay
• OpenSats Grants!
• Splicing in Phoenix
• ACINQ securing $100M Node
• AI4ALL
  • prizes
• bitpac

Notable code changes, proposals, and releases

• Restrict self-advertisements to avoid fingerprinting
• BOLT feature cleanup
• L402 bLIP
• 12 words the standard
• LDK Node
• VLS Beta
• Frostsnap
• mutinynet deployments
• admin uis

Research

• BIP32 colors
• Some-day pegs or “Optimistic Upgrades”
• Prevent coinjoin pinning with v3 transactions
• Reducing Ark Interactivity Without Soft Fork
• Parallel block processing
• Waiting for confirmation: Policy proposals
• Manually calculate a public key on paper
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