BitDevs Amsterdam meeting 003!

It’s time for another BitDevs! A big thanks to Bitonic for sponsoring us with the meeting space and snacks! Drinks and light snacks will be provided, so please ensure you have some dinner beforehand or bring it along to the seminar.

Thursday, March 23rd 2023 @ 7PM

Doors open at 6:30PM and we will try to start promptly at 7PM. As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:

1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.

Agenda

Noteworthy PRs

• Miniscript support in Bitcoin Core
  • #24149: Signing support for Miniscript Descriptors
  • #27255: MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript
• assumeutxo progress
  • #25740: background validation completion
  • #15606: Parent PR
• Don’t download witness data for assume-valid blocks when running in pruned mode
  • #27050: Draft PR
  • Bitcoin SE Post

BIPs and Proposals

• Silent Payments: Sneak peek!
  • Draft BIP
  • Advancing Bitcoin workshop
• Codex32: BIP39, but better!
  • BIP 93
  • Mailing list discussion
  • Website
• OP_VAULT updates:
  • Draft BIP 345
  • Mailing list discussion

Research

Misc

• 30th Anniversary of the Cypherpunk Manifesto
• Marco stepping down as maintainer
• LDK Roadmap
• BitcoinSearch.xyz
• Utreexo service bit on signet/testnet