BitDevs Rotterdam meeting 025!

It’s time for another BitDevs! A big thanks to Blockrise 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, February 5th, 2026 @ 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

Part I: BIP54 (Consensus Cleanup Revival)

• BIP: bips.dev/54
• Bitcoin Inquisition PR: bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin#99
• Ongoing discussion
  • Modifying BIP54 timestamp restriction to support a future “ntime soft fork”
    • Bitcoin-Dev list
    • delvingbitcoin.org

Part II: Bitcoin Open Source vs LLM coding

Open discussion around bitcoin open source development and the challenges that wide adoption of LLM/agentic coding presents. Main discussion will be around development flow, reviews, repository policies and security.