Join us today (09-Feb-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will discuss:
i) Vanadium, a virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices
ii) Explore the interface of rawbit.io, a learning tool for constructing bitcoin transactions visually
iii) zero-conf Channels
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Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384
This week’s newsletter discloses vulnerabilities in LND and describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element. Also...
🚨 Reminder: Bitcoin Meetup Pune 🚨
📍 Pune
🗓 Saturday, 07th Feb 2026
⏰ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Join us for a casual Bitcoin meetup with developers, enthusiasts, students, and builders exploring the future of money. Whether you’re curious, contributing to open source, or brainstorming new ideas — there’s a seat for you.
🪑 Come for the conversation, stay for the community.
✅ Register now: 
Join us today (05-Feb-2026) at 7:00 PM IST / 1:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Kernel Club
Session 4: Hands-on with Rust Bitcoinkernel
i) RustBitcoinkernel or Rust bindings for Bitcoinkernel
ii) Get Hands-on with Rust Bitcoinkernel
iii) Script & Block validation using rust-bindings.
iv) Review error handling in rust-bitcoinkernel.
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Join us today (04-Feb-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for TradFi & Bitcoin Club
Today, we’ll dive into the Epoch VC Bitcoin Ecosystem Report 2026, unpacking how Bitcoin is evolving across capital, infrastructure, and adoption.
What we’ll cover:
🔹 Key takeaways from the 2026 outlook
🔹 Capital flows, market structure, and investor behavior
🔹 Bitcoin infrastructure, scaling, and ecosystem maturity
🔹 What this report gets right — and where we may disagree
🔹 Implications for Bitcoin Treasury Companies, digital credit, and long-term allocators
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Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line (LBTCL) Cohort starts Today 🚀
Orientation session - 2nd February, 2026 - 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC).
This 6-week learning experience, will help you have a hands-on experience in understanding the Bitcoin protocol by directly interacting with a Bitcoin Core node using bitcoind and bitcoin-cli.
We’ll share more information on cohort structure and grading schemes in today's orientation, to help you understand what the cohort covers, how we'll learn, and what’s expected.
📌If you are still not registered then please register at 
Join us today (27-Jan-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Mining Club
Today, we'll cover remaining solo mining pools - compensation systems, pool fees, withdrawals - and configuring solo miners like Bitaxe, Braiins Mini Miner, Avalon Nano 3s, and more.
Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session: 
Congratulations to all participants' who successfully completed Learning Bitcoin from Command Line - Season 1
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Next Cohorts
1) Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line Cohort (LBTCL) - Season 2 begins from 02-Feb-2026
2) Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) - Season 1 from 20-Feb-2026
3) Mastering Lightning (ML) - Season 2 begins from 25-Feb-2026
4) Mastering Bitcoin (ML) - Season 4 begins from 26-Feb-2026
📌 Applications are open: : 
How to run a Bitcoin full node and basic CLI commands workshop | Mumbai
📅 Saturday, 31st January 2026
🕐 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Andheri East, Mumbai
If you are in Mumbai then Come join us to learn about:
i) What is a bitcoin node?
ii) How does it provide you monetary sovereignty?
iii)How to setup a bitcoin node at your home?
iv)How to connect your wallets to your node? and
v) Basic CLI Commands
Register at: 
🚀 Bitshala presents: Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) Cohort - Season 1 ⚡
📅 Starts 20th February 2026 | 6‑Week Cohort | Fridays, 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
A 6‑week immersive cohort to give in-depth dive into the Bitcoin protocol
Built around Bitcoin Protocol Development by Chaincode Labs, you’ll be doing Coding Challenges along with weekly Question Assignments 🔐🌐
⚡Who’s it for? If you’ve already explored Bitcoin’s technicalities and want to level up, this cohort is for you.
🎓 Earn a Proof‑of‑Work certificate on completion
✅ Potential fellowship opportunities at Bitshala
📌 Applications are open: