BitDevs Amsterdam meeting 024!

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

Thursday, December 4th, 2025 @ 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

The mysterious Bitcoin Core developers met in October. Minutes of meeting were leaked!

We’ll cover these topics based on the collected notes:

• https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2025-10

Softforks

• CISA FullAgg BIP

Networking

• Package Relay
• ASMap
• Security Audit
• Low Level Sockets Abstraction
• net - net_processing split

Plumbing

• Cluster Mempool
• Multiprocess and mining interface
• CMake
• Batch Validation
• libsha

Privacy and security

• Private broadcast
• Fingerprinting
• A secp256k1 break? (quantum)

Test, developer tools

• Fuzzamoto
• Debugging
• CoreCheck

Meta

• Subject matter experts and working groups