Announcements

• Join our Telegram group (https://t.me/BitcoinAustin) QR
• unchained raised money
• pleb.fi
• roasbeef running sapio
• chaincode seminars
• fake ledgers getting mailed out
• mempool emptying
• Bitcoin is legal tender
• World bank doesn’t want to help
• bitcoin beach wallet

Lightning

• LND v0.13.0
• Lightning Ubiquity at Bitcoin 2021
• Twitter integrating LN “only a matter of time”
• 805805 Lightning services
• LDK sample node
• c-lightning channel upgrade support

Texas

• HB4474 Passed
• Texas state chartered banks can custody bitcoin

Taproot

• Taproot locked in
• Taproot history by sipa
• Bitcoin Core imports taproot descriptors
• Taproot Wallet Support in Core
• Upgrade your nodes
• zndtoshi poll?
• taproot poll
• SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT BIP PR

Bitcoin Core

• bip 32 potential bug
• fix defintion of ordering of htlcs in BOLTs
• IRC move to libera.chat
• Blockchain.com supports native segwit
• Bitcoin core transaction RPC calls allow external utxos
• bitcoin-qt can’t show arbitrary messages from URIs
• IBD speedup with libsecp update
• Dropping tor v2 service support
• Importance of FOSS node licenses

BIPs

• Attempt to standardize multisig derivation paths
• Derivation path templates
• blind-xpub
• utreexo update
• bitcoin problems

Mining

• Mining council
• Mara throws in towel
• miners getting kicked out of xinjiang
• Improved block construction

Apps

• N2N2 launched
• Azure hosted blockchain shuts down