Announcements

Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our event space The Candy Factory.

Presentation

• BitLancaster: Trying something new

In the News

• 256Foundation Mining Grants
• Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks
• BitScript Sandbox
• BitVM Activation on Clementine & Core Protocol Upgrades
• BitVM meets Consensus Cleanup over 64-byte transactions
• Clementine: A Collateral-Efficient, Trust-Minimized, and Scalable Bitcoin Bridge
• Critical Wallet Bugs Expose Users to Silent Crypto Drains
• Crypto crime is legal
• Delbrag
• DOJ Ends Crypto Enforcement Unit and Regulation by Prosecution
• Human Rights Foundation Grants 10 BTC to 23 Bitcoin Projects Worldwide
• Opensats - Fourth Wave of Education Grants, Advancements in Lightning Infrastructure -Phoenix wallets returns to the US
• Soft fork research database
• Spiral grant - l0rinc
• Taplocks: Verifiable but unspendable tapleafs
• The Evolution of Payjoin: From Two-Party Protocol to Multiparty Framework
• Trump signs bill to nullify expanded IRS crypto broker rule
• Try Ark on signet
• Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program
• BitBonds: The $2 Trillion Idea That Could Slash The National Debt

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• Bitcoin Core 29.0 Released

• Post Quantum Signatures and Scaling Bitcoin

lightning-dev

• I don’t know enough about Lightning to add anything here yet. I will improve I promise!

Optech

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #348
  • Recap Podcast
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #349
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #352

Network Data

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CVEs and Research

Research

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InfoSec

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New Releases

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Events and Podcasts

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Mining

• Bitcoin Mining Centralization in 2025 by 0xB10C
• Bitcoin Mining Industry Report: March 2025 - Monthly Operational Updates
• Braiins open sources the Bitcoin Control Board
• The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom