We will start with introductions, some basic ground rules, and jump into technical discussions. We will cover aspects of the bitcoin protocol, new research developments, recent news, and software developments.

Please note the meeting location at Crafty Beer, Wine, and Spirits near Five Points.

Announcements

• no pictures or recordings
• chatham house rules
• don’t be a dick
• Fedimint Workshop - April 18th Office Evolution
• thank you to our sponsors Lolli and Swan Bitcoin
• introductions

Bitcoin

• Teleport Transactions (twitter thread)
• Great Consensus Cleanup Revival (BIP)
• Bitcoin Core - 27.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide

Lightning

• Coinbase Selects Lightspark for Lightning

Mining

• ViaBTC Vulnerability Disclosure
• Stratum v2 - SRI 1.0.0 release

Ecash

• Cashu experiments with eCash stablecoins

BitVM

• BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• Hedgehog - A protocol for improved layer two bitcoin payments