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Doors open at 6pm with discussion starting shortly after!
Rusty Russell posted to the Bitcoin mailing list about a quartet of BIP proposals included in the Great Script Restoration (GSR):
https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/GisTcPb8Jco
In remembrance of the dearly departed we ask that you take a moment to go through the Bitcoin Core v30 Testing Guide.
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/30.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide
Bitcoin Core v30.0 is scheduled to be released on October 10.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v30.0rc2
datacarrier and datacarriersize OptionsPR to undeprecate datacarrier and datacarriersize configuration options has been merged into Bitcoin Core and will be included in v30. The undeprecation simply removes warning messages when using these settings. Many Bitcoin Core Users still desire to use these configuration options and with no clear plan for deprecation it did not make sense to have deprecation warnings.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33453
theuni proposed seperating the p2p code in Bitcoin Core and to put it in a seperate binary
https://github.com/theuni/bitcoin/tree/multiprocess_p2p
This release adds support for sending to silent payment addresses. Silent payment addresses are a new form of static payment address, where the actual bitcoin address that you send to is determined from both the silent payment address and the transaction inputs. This means you can pay to the same silent payments address while ensuring bitcoin addresses are never reused. This both simplifies the payment experience and makes it more private, at the cost of increasing the burden on the recipient to scan incoming transactions for payments.
This release also supports BIP353, also known as DNS payment instructions. You can now pay to an address that looks similar to ₿user@domain.com, which resolves to a DNSSEC-signed bitcoin: URI. For privacy reasons it’s best to use only a silent payments address (and BOLT12 invoice) in the URI.
https://x.com/SparrowWallet/status/1974047429575258173
Payjoin is a transformative protocol that enables wallets to communicate and create collaborative, smarter, and more efficient Bitcoin transactions. It offers payment batching technology that exchanges and payment processors can use to save on fees (opens new window)and protect their own and their users’ financial privacy (opens new window)while scaling (opens new window)Bitcoin.
https://payjoindevkit.org/2025/03/18/the-evolution-of-payjoin/
UK moves to require digital ID for employment in attempt to fight immigration fraud. Swiss vote to approve use of digital ID by narrow margin.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/digital-identity
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr624j16jpo
New court filing provides a closer look at one suspect and how she helped carry out the breach, which is the worst in Coinbase history.
Canadian authorities confirmed that the exchange TradeOgre has been seized. In total, the funds now in possession of Canadian authorities amount to over $56,000,000. The funds seized appear to belong to TradeOgre customers, and no charges have been filed.
https://www.therage.co/tradeogre-seized-canada/
A former Tor operator, refused to help the FBI decrypt Tor traffic. They retaliated by using an old CFAA offense to arrest him and accused him of using a “graphics driver to access the dark web” to keep him in pre-trial detention for 3 years. Now he’s been jailed again in Michigan.
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1967983933951295923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262053
https://www.coinjoins.org/
https://github.com/rajarshimaitra/teleport-transactions
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/silent-payments/
https://www.torproject.org/
https://squareup.com/us/en/bitcoin
https://x.com/theinstagibbs/status/1975942930532549059 https://x.com/theinstagibbs/status/1975944960160465405