Announcements

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• Chatham House Rules

Semi-Regular Installment of Bitcoin Trivia!

Austin Bitdevs Trivia Question #9

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• Lightning Class (August)
• Taproot Class (September)

News

• OpenSats Grants!
• AI4ALL
  • Data vending machine
  • ChatBTC
• HRF bounties

Tabloid

• Milk Sad
• Steal passwords through sound
• coinbase asked to only trade bitcoin
• Chainalysis admits they suck
• steal passwords

Notable code changes, proposals, and releases

• Bulletproofs++
• Jamesob co-author of CTV
• Jamesob Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes
• Lightning is scaling in a way no one predicted
• Liquid more open source
• Credit-based ecash
• Musig at bitgo
• blind musig2
• rustreexo
• Payjoin V2

Lightning

• Splicing in CLN
• LSP Spec in Mutiny
• Ldk v0.0.116
• Lnd almost taproot channels
• Closing protocol
• How Voltage makes Mutiny private

Bitcoin Core

• Full RBF by default
  • Full RBF at 31% hash rate
• Remove OP_RETURN size limit
• New coin selection algo
• BIP 324 crypto merged