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)
• Musig signing added to lnd rpc
• 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++

Bitcoin Core

• Indexes on pruned nodes
• BIP 50 Chain Fork Post-Mortem

Contract Protocols

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

Lightning

• Blind Signing Risks
• Receiving payments to sometimes online mobile wallets
• Taro explainer video(useful to learn about merkle trees)

Projects

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