The latest Bitcoin Core Review Club episode is live! Dive in for an insightful session led by @stratospher covering PR#26222 which adds a new secp256k1.py module into #Bitcoin Core's testing framework. In this episode, Stratospher delivers a hands-on presentation on: - Finite Fields and Modulo Arithmetic - Group Theory - Elliptic Curves - Secp256k1 We also discuss fun and historic points about the development of these mathematics and take a peek into the Python code implementing these primitives into the core test framework. So, don't miss out on this in-depth episode! It's perfect for developers studying Programming Bitcoin Ch. 01 to 03 or interested in Bitcoin's cryptographic primitives. Watch now on YouTube: P.S. Find the PR summary and answers to the discussed questions here:

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Introduce secp256k1 module with field and group classes to test framework #26222 · Bitshala/BitcoinCore-PR-Review-Club · Discussion #32

Session Details Date: 08-06-2023 Time: IST 20:00 (UTC 14:30) PR: bitcoin/bitcoin#26222 Context: [Crypto] Difficulty: Beginer Language: [python] Lea...

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🚨 Review Club Notice 🚨 In the next club, we will be reviewing PR #26222: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26222, which is a massive deep dive into the cryptographic guts of #Bitcoin Details here: github.com/Bitshala/Bitcoin-PR-Review-Club#next-review-club

Bitcoin Optech Reading club in an hour. Just read this week's newsletter and show up in the discord lounge. Optech # 252 newsletter: bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/24 Bitshala Discord: discord.gg/atjEPVTdsQ

Bitcoin Talks Episode 3: with @spherostrat @spherostrat is an SOB alumn and a prolific Bitcoin Core contributor, and a Bitshala educator. In this, we talk about her SOB journey, learning through Bitcoin, and a deep dive into BIP324.

Review Club Notice. Thusrday, 8:00pm IST. This week we will look through an RPC command addition into bitcoin-cli, learn about core's RPC framework, and unit-testing RPC commands. Joining instructions here:

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