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 Fidelity Investments near RTP.

Announcements

• no pictures or recordings
• chatham house rules
  • discuss what was said, not who said it
• don’t be a jerk
• thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments
• introductions

Bitcoin Core

• Bitcoin CoreDev reflections 2024-2025

Mining

• Hashpool has a landing page! hashpool.dev
• Rebooting P2Pool for Bitcoin
  • LLM summary of recent commits
• mononaut highlights a recent P2Pool block
• MEVpool: A Private Mempool Marketplace Standard

Privacy

• Payjoin - batch payments PR merged

Covenants

• Jeremy Rubin, instigator of CTV endorses a covenant proposal
• Bitcoin Core - CTV PR opened once again
• Decentralized Coordination Free Mining Pools

Ecash

• Ecash mints funded with Spillman channels: The ultimate nodeless Lightning wallet

Politics

• Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve
  • Lopp thinks we should timelock the funds. Galaxy brain move!
• Bitcoin Used To Secure Results Of Tennessee County Republican Convention Vote

Miscellaneous

• Block Size Report
• A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
• Hal Finney speaks
• 2014 IETF Memo on the process of rough consensus