Perth BitDevs

Monthly socratic seminar exploring Bitcoin development, protocol changes, and the broader technical ecosystem.

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Thursday 5 March, 6pm. BIP-110 bugs, defections & first signaled block, contiguous data without OP_RETURN, Gloria Zhao steps down, Core v31 & cluster mempool, quantum resistance, PQ signatures on Liquid, PIPEs v2, Binohash, FIBRE resurrected, 24-bit nVersion nonce space, Nested MuSig2, Sloth messaging, Cake Wallet Lightning, phishing attacks.

15 topics Interactive slides

2026

5 February 2026 →

BIP-110 deep dive, private transaction broadcast (PR #29415), Core v30 wallet migration bug, new maintainer TheCharlatan, mining software stack & MiningOS, OpenClaw agent security.

6 topics Interactive slides

2025

December 2025→

Lava custody analysis, BIP-444 on-chain bets, Keonne Rodriguez sentenced, consensus code C API, cluster mempool merged, ZK proofs for Cashu.

November 2025→

November 2025, Bushbash Edition

Chain code delegation BIP, large OP_RETURNs since v30, BIP-444 deep dive, DNS seed removal, BitVM2 unhappy path, Beacon 21M.

October 2025→

Flat blockchain storage cost, Macadamia ecash on iMessage, Rusty Russell BIP quartet, datacarrier deprecation reversal, global liquidity and Bitcoin.

September 2025→

Glock (Garbled Locks), lowest fees since 2011, minimum relay feerate merged, bitcoinfuzz differential fuzzing, sharing block templates.

RGB in production, White Noise on Nostr, Samourai guilty pleas, Block Augur fee estimator, Cashu in WhatsApp, Simplicity on Liquid.

Zeus wallet upgrade, Filter Wars, CTV & CSFS letter (70 devs), BitVM3, Frostsnap, Ashigaru Whirlpool.

OP_RETURN continued, Chaincode quantum report, Lightning Blinder, Arkade, Liana wallet, Square BTC POS, Citrea BitVM.

SwiftSync, Bitcoin Core v29.0, Twenty One Capital, OP_RETURN drama, Consensus Cleanup BIP, ESP32 CVE, UTXOscope.

Strategic Bitcoin Reserve EO, TROPIC01 secure element, Demand Pool/Stratum V2, AntPool centralisation, CISA, PSBT Explorer.

Obscura VPN, ByBit hack, Apple/UK backdoor, LNbits, Bitcoin Inquisition v28.1, Hashpool, Nostr Wallet Connect.

February 2025→

Telehash fundraiser, Czech National Bank, US state reserve proposals, Ark Wallet SDK, Ross freed, Sparrow v2.1.1, DeepSeek.

January 2025→

Lend a Sat, Miniscript/AnchorWatch, Bitcoin hitting 100K, Nunchuk Taproot Multisig.

2024

December 2024→

December 2024, Christmas Catch Up

Casual end-of-year drinks and catch up.

November 2024→

Non-soft-fork covenants, seed phrase dice rolling demo, Apple homomorphic encryption, Orange Wave, Free Ross Q&A.

October 2024→

SuperScalar, Ark on mainnet, Haven Nostr relay, Cashu/eCash zaps, Ashigaru, NerdQaxe, Ocean DATUM, YubiKey vulnerability.

September 2024→

September 2024, WA Bush BitDevs

BitVM2 Bridges, Xpub wallet recovery, Nostr & eCash, BOLT 12 on LND-K, FROST Lightning, Mercury Layer disclosure, Alby Hub.

August 2024, Bush Bash

YubiKeys, SeedXOR, Shamir Secret Sharing, Bush Bash consensus chat.

Quantum resistance BIP, Trezor SLIP-0039, Brollups, SeedSigner multisig demo, CUSF, EU e2e encryption debate.

Axiom of Resistance, Silent Payments (BIP-352), Great Script Restoration, Tornado Cash ruling, NerdAXE, Wasabi Wallet.

Side Pools, Bitcoin co-option debate, BitVM security, ZK coins by Robin Linus, Samourai-to-Sparrow migration, Antminer S9 demo.

Hedgehog channels, Runes launch at the halving, XZ/OpenSSH backdoor, SeedSigner GPG verification, Cashu multinuteral payments, BIP-42.

Bitstake (PoS sidechain via BitVM), UTXO consolidation, Marathon direct tx submission, Braiins Lightning payouts, Bitcoin Knots on Start9.

February 2024→

BlueWallet Lightning, Fedimint hands-on, Ark custodial debate, Bitaroo BPAY, Citrea ZK Rollups, COPA trial, Bitcoin in SMSF.

January 2024→

Fork activation methods (BIP 8/9, MASF, UASF), the BIPs repository, reusable payment codes (BIP-47, BIP-352).

2023

December 2023→

OCEAN mining, the 84 BTC fee, Lightning stable channels, DLCs on Nostr, Coldcard security incident.