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
• Freedom Tech Workshop - June 20th The Loading Dock on Whitacre Mill
• thank you to our sponsors Lolli and Swan Bitcoin
• introductions

Bitcoin

• v3 transactions TRUCing along, renamed and assigned BIP-0431
• Jeremy Rubin write up on functional encryption covenants
• Ark Labs launch announcement
• CISA research site
• New silent payments informational page, silentpayments.xyz
• New wasabi release enables coordinator selection via nostr
• OP_CAT based proof of work signet bitcoin faucet

Lightning

• LND 0.18 beta includes inbound fees, route blinding, fee estimates for invoices, and more

Mining

• Ocean Mining moves HQ to El Salvador
• Ecash TIDES using Cashu and Stratum v2
• Bitcoin Mechanic twitter post exploring empty blocks
• Greg Maxwell post with original claim of covert asic boost
• Mempool.space research report on empty blocks
• Classic Jimmy Song blog post on covert ASICboost
• https://stratum.work/

Ecash

• Mutiny launches Harbor, a desktop ecash wallet
• OpenCash non-profit dev grants

Miscellaneous

• Peer to Peer Rights Fund set up to fight the legal precedents attempting to be advanced in the Samourai case. https://p2prights.org/