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Perth BitDevs
Thursday 7 May 2026 · 6pm · Rocky Ridge, Burswood
NOTE
The topic summaries for this month were generated with the assistance of AI and may contain errors.
In Brief
INDOPACOM
Iran
Solo Miner
Square
Litecoin
Lightning
Vegas
→
News Roundup — 7 Items in Brief
US Military
runs a Bitcoin node — Adm. Paparo, INDOPACOM, Apr 21 Senate testimony
Iran
approves $1/bbl Hormuz toll in BTC/yuan; meanwhile Iran's hashrate
collapses 77%
Solo miner
at 70 TH/s wins block 944,306 — full
3.128 BTC
reward
Square / Block
auto-enables Bitcoin Lightning for millions of US sellers
Litecoin
13-block reorg via MWEB bug — disclosure-timing controversy
Lightning
briefs — CLN splicing GA, LDK zero-fee, onion-msg DoS work
Vegas Money
— Tether-proposed XXI + Strike + Elektron 3-way merger (Apr 29)
BIP-110 & the Data-Carrier Debate
BIP-110
→
BIP-110 — Status, Signaling & Discourse
Knots PR #238
APPROVED by Luke Dashjr (May 1) — not yet merged
RDTS_CONSENT
build-time consent gate (PRs #256, #289)
Signaling stalled
<0.20%
against a 55% threshold
Ocean hashrate
14.5 → 22.75 EH/s
; signaling didn't follow
Bitprojects'
3,000-node Sybil reveal (Mar 31) + reported ~30k late-April drop
MIT Expo & Bitcoin 2026 voices: Saylor, Back, Bailey, Murch, Lopp, Riard, Wang Chun, Cuny
Quantum
Quantum
→
Quantum Update
Resource estimates falling:
1,333 logical
/
<500K physical
qubits for ECDLP
Project Eleven's 1 BTC Q-Day Prize
(Apr 24) — debunked as classical noise
Six migration buckets:
BIP-361
, Hourglass V2, BitMEX Canary, PACTs, QSB, Quip
Presidio's "Quantum Readiness v1"
publication
Wire-layer front:
BIP-324 PQ
extensions (roasbeef)
Voices: Coinbase, Saylor, a Nobel laureate
Governance
Governance
→
Governance
Murch's RFC
to refresh the BIP-Editor team (bitcoindev, Apr 22)
"The Lever"
— Article 2 of "The Capture" (Citadel21, Apr 29) + named-subject right-of-reply
Falco's
"Stakeholder Equilibrium" brief & merge-share data (fanquake 65%)
Bitcoin Core process
— v31.0 release (Apr 19/20), GitLab-backups thread reactivated
Governance signals from
Bitcoin 2026 Las Vegas
(Apr 27–29) — Patel, Blanche, "Code & Country"
Alternative Implementations
ProductionReady
Libbitcoin
Hornet
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Alt-Client Watch — Three Projects, Three Theses
Song's ProductionReady promo
pitched as "conservative · no drama · we listen" — pushback from Luke Dashjr and others
Libbitcoin v4
still pre-release; latest tag
v3.8.0
, Sparrow/Stratum connection layer in flight
Hornet
(Toby Sharp): consensus as an
executable spec
+
Hornet DSL
Hornet's public artefacts:
arxiv paper
plus updates —
no source code released yet
Security & Network
Bisq
AI-Assisted?
→
Bisq v1 Trade Protocol Exploited
May 1
— modified-client attack drained available BTC-sell offers on Bisq v1
Bisq's own assessment:
"likely AI-assisted"
Trading halted via forced-version (required v2.0.0 — doesn't exist)
Reimbursement: BTC or BSQ, under evaluation
Bisq 2 (different protocol design) unaffected
Hard Fork
Drivechains
→
Sztorc's eCash Hard Fork at Block 964,000
Sibling chain at
block 964,000
(~Aug 2026)
Replicates Bitcoin's history, diverges with
Drivechains
active by default
BIP-300 (peg) + BIP-301 (merged mining) refresher
Controversial:
~1.1M BTC
from Satoshi's dormant addresses allocated on the new chain
Pre-fork backers offered less than half of that allocation
Protocol Development
BIPs
Recent
→
New BIPs Roundup
Eight recent BIPs
; five landed since the April BitDevs
BIP-440 / 441
— Great Script Restoration (Russell + Moik)
New tapscript opcodes:
442
OP_PAIRCOMMIT,
446
OP_TEMPLATEHASH,
448
Bindable Tx
Operational:
376
(Silent Payments PSBTs),
451
(Dust UTXO Disposal — May 6)
Cross-ref:
BIP-361
on the quantum page
Community
Bush Bash
2026 Schedule
→
Australian Bitcoin Bush Bash 2026
Beechworth, VIC
— 13–15 March (past)
Byron Bay, NSW
— 15–17 May (next)
Palm Cove, QLD
— 24–26 July
Busselton, WA
— Oct/Nov (expected)
Parkes, NSW
— November (expected)
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