Come join us for another wonderful evening of discussing weird bitcoin stuff! We're meeting at the @btcplusplus house in Austin.
🗓️ THURSDAY, 22 October 2026
⏰ 7:00PM Texas time
📍 900 Olive St, Austin, TX
Announcements
- Respect people's privacy
- Interaction and asking questions are encouraged
- Chatham House Rules
Vulnerabilities
- Ledger devices have spy implants - only Cryptobilis or other resellers, too? - discussion
- Blink bounty - followup
BIPs
- BIP Draft - Cosigner Spending Policies
- BIP Draft - One Byte message type ID alias assignment
- BIP Draft - Wallet label synchronization
- BIP Draft - unspendable internal keys - Discussion
Releases
- LayerTree - Discussion
- Zark - Github repo
- Archipelago
- btc-safe bitcoin multisig coordinator
- LexeConnect
- Mostro P2P web app
- Bitcoin Poker - Github - paper
- Coinos v3 - new ASP on the block - Github
- Bitcoin Data Labs new website
- Bitpost P2P shop - discussion
- frost-wallet
- landfall - OCEAN mining rewards via LN with a single recovery phrase
- Bark Dice
- arkpool - Discussion
- BitBox adds lightning to all devices
- find my nuts mesh network
- Lightning Pay Kit
- zaptrain
- Shhark wallet
Research
- Shielded Bitcoin -blog post - Discussion
- Shielded CSV nee Glass Coins - Linus comparison with Shielded Bitcoin
- Silent Payments for multiparty wallets
- Risks of key reuse with rebindable signatures
- Cassis - generic multi-layer multi-hop HTLC routing
- snal - zero onchain fee transaction sender
- Coinjoin change as shared lightning liquidity - video
- Invalid bitcoin blocks research
- Depots - yet another Bitcoin scaling idea - optech summary - Discussion
- 10 AI models vs embargoed Core Lightning - Discuss
- LN-GAP - Github
Quantum
- Coinbase: working together on Bitcoin's quantum readiness
- Compact Shielded CSV
- PRAWNS
- Project Eleven reviews SHRINCs - Discussion
Tools
- Bitcoin calendar gets a timeline view - Discussion
- BIP Explorer
- SiriScore - analyze bitcoin transaction privacy
- Entropylab
- Zine about OP_CAT
- Wallet playground
News
- Liquid staged recovery update - Discussion
- Would you trust an entirely AI-written bitcoin node implementation?
- Claude finds ECDSA curve origins - Discussion
- fiatjaf doesn't like lightning anymore selections from transcript
- Binance Pool closing
- Lightspark dotMoney - Money as a file
- FinCEN drops the mixer rule
- MARA Foundation appoints Peter Todd head of Slipstream - Discussion
- Block launches Bitcoin consumer ad campaign
- EMM returns $1.725 million Bitcoin through whitehat Coldcard hackers
- x402 merges lightning spec
- The Progressive Bitcoiner shuts down and then tries to raise $2m - Discussion
Super excited to hear free beef ribs from Terry Blacks will be served.
Austin socratic is always fire! That Ledger spy implant vulnerability - is that about the supply chain rumors or something new? Wish we had live stream for remote stackers in Lagos. 7PM Texas = 1AM for us, but worth staying up. Have fun at btcplusplus house!
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