Announcements

• Join our Telegram group (https://t.me/BitcoinAustin) QR
• Everyone is hiring right now
• Pleb.fi hackathon results
• Impervious lightning hackathon results

News

• El Salvador legal tender
• El Salvador buys bitcoin
• Western Union rekt
• Ukraine “legalizes” bitcoin
• HRF grants

Bitcoin Core

• v22.0 tagged/released
• New release process
• Potential bug with signing
• Was not discouraging unknown nSequence with CSV
• Waste metric coin selection

Lightning

• Bull Bitcoin adds lightning
• Paxful adds lightning
• Twitter beta tests lightning tipping
• LND adds easy batched channel opens
• LND hybrid connectivity
• Block header in ping message
• Lightning MEV

DLCs

• The layman’s guide to DLCs
• DLCs over tor
• Go Up Number!

Research

• TAPLEAF_UPDATE_VERIFY
• Andrew Chow on reproducible builds
• Eltoo with Anyprevout and Taproot

Privacy

• Joinmarket releases fidelity bonds
• Joinmarket order book over lightning gossip
• Camouflage: list of open bitcoin privacy issues
• WabiSabi on testnet

Misc

• Unusual tx
• Spending it
• NFC Coldcard