February 2026

Perth BitDevs

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Technical / Protocol

BIP-110 — Temporarily Limiting Arbitrary Data

7 consensus-level restrictions on arbitrary data for ~1 year. Reaction to Core v30 removing the OP_RETURN limit. Zero signaling so far.

PrivacyPR #29415

Private Transaction Broadcast via Tor/I2P

Short-lived anonymous connections for each transaction broadcast. A 12-year-old privacy issue finally being addressed.

Bitcoin Core

New Core Maintainer: Sebastian Kung (TheCharlatan)

6th maintainer added January 2026. Driving force behind libbitcoinkernel. Full maintainer roster breakdown.

Bitcoin Core v30 Wallet Migration Bug

Critical bug: migrating a legacy wallet could delete all wallet files. Binaries pulled from bitcoincore.org. Fixed in v30.2.

Mining

Tether Open-Sources MiningOS

Fleet management for Bitcoin mining, Apache 2.0. P2P architecture via Holepunch/Hyperswarm. Visual breakdown of the full mining stack.

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AI & Agents

AI AgentsSecurity

OpenClaw, Moltbook & the Agent Security Dumpster Fire

145k GitHub stars, 1.5M agent accounts, RCE vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks, and the Nostr/Lightning alternative.