Join us today (22-Apr-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for TradFi & Bitcoin Club
Guest Session with Karan Gill (Bredit),
Buying Bitcoin on EMIs — bridging credit access with BTC accumulation.🧠⚡
What we’ll cover:
• How BTC on EMI works
• The financing structure behind it
• Risks vs rewards of leveraging credit for BTC
• Who should (and shouldn't) consider this
• How credit rails can drive broader Bitcoin adoption
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Lightning 101 Meetup | Chennai | Sunday, 26th April 2026 | 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
📅 Sunday, 26th April 2026
🕐 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Imen ConneXions, Anna Nagar, Chennai
A 101 about the Lightning network. We will cover the following topics:
1. Scaling Bitcoin via Layers
2. What are Payment Channels ?
3. How payments are routed in the lightning network
4. Difference between Bitcoin and Lightning network
5. Practical - Lightning wallets and Nodes
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Bitcoin Mining 101 | Vadodara, Gujarat | Saturday, 25th April 2026 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
📅 Saturday, 25th April 2026
🕐 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
📍 Aniradichita Theatre and Films Association, Vadodara, Gujarat
Curious about how Bitcoin is actually created? Join us for an introductory session where we strip away the jargon and look under the hood of the world’s first decentralized currency. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or just Bitcoin-curious, this "101" session is designed for everyone.
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Join us today (21-Apr-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Mining Club
Today, we will discuss:
i) Hardest Block ever mined: 2022 anomaly, 1.6M× network difficulty.
ii) Closest Calls: Block passed by 0.000133% margin.
iii) 141 Trillion Times Harder: Difficulty growth from 2009 to 2026.
iv) 24-Zero Club: Rarest block hashes and miner odds.
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Join us today (20-Apr-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will discuss the latest reports about effects of increasing OP_RETURN limits in Bitcoin Core v30
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Bitcoin Transactions and Bitcoin Blocks | Khar, Mumbai | Saturday, 25th Apr 2026 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
📅 Saturday, 25th April 2026
🕐 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
📍 603 The Coworking Space Amore Building, 5th Floor, Khar West
The meetup agenda focuses on the anatomy of Bitcoin transactions and blocks at a byte-level, covering their core structures, components, and how they interlink in the blockchain.
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Congratulations to all participants who successfully completed Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) Cohort - Season 1 👏 👏
Top 5 participants
🥇 Yshok 🥈 Chaitika 🥉 codaMW 🎁 Aswin Ashu 🎁 gradale
Honorary mentions
🎁 Menk 🎁 Ibearua 🎁 Ayoazeez26 🎁Gkills 🎁 Kirito 🎁 Captain Levi 🎁 Amol 🎁 defau1tuser0 🎁 Aroso Emmanuel
Upcoming Bitshala Cohorts Schedule
1) Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line Cohort (LBTCL) - Season 3 begins from 11-May-2026
2) Mastering Bitcoin (MB) - Season 5 begins from 21-May-2026
3) Mastering Lightning (ML) - Season 3 begins from 27-May-2026
📌 Applications are now open: 
🚀 Bitshala: Mastering Bitcoin (MB) Cohort - Season 5 ⚡
📅 Starts 21st May 2026 | 8‑Week Cohort | Thursdays, 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
An immersive cohort based on Mastering Bitcoin (3rd ed.) by Andreas Antonopoulos, combining self‑study, discussions, and live sessions to understand how Bitcoin works—from transactions and wallets to mining and consensus.
👉 For developers, designers, professionals, and curious learners.
✅ No coding experience required
🎓 Earn a Proof‑of‑Work certificate on completion
📌 Applications are open: 
🚀 Bitshala: Mastering Lightning Network (LN) Cohort - Season 3 ⚡
📅 Starts 27th May 2026 | 8‑Weeks | Wednesdays, 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
Go beyond on‑chain Bitcoin and learn to build on Lightning with a hands‑on, guided cohort.
What you’ll get:
⚡ Self‑study + weekly live sessions
⚡ Group discussions & live Q&A
⚡ LN engineering, node ops, channels, routing, security & real‑world use cases
Who’s it for? 👉 Developers, designers, builders & curious Bitcoiners
✅ Prerequisites: Intermediate Bitcoin knowledge
📘 Based on Mastering the Lightning Network, LND Builder’s Guide & Chaincode resources
📌 Applications are open: 
Bitshala's Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line Cohort (LBTCL) - Season 3 begins on 11th May 2026.
A 6‑week hands‑on cohort focused on learning Bitcoin Core through the CLI.
Includes:
⚡ Guided modules
⚡ Community discussions & Q&A
⚡ Weekly live sessions
Who should join?
👉 Intermediate learners with basic Bitcoin knowledge and comfort using Unix/Linux CLI — especially developers and builders.
Prerequisites:
⚡Bitcoin fundamentals
⚡Command-line familiarity
You’ll gain:
✅ Practical Bitcoin Core & node management skills
✅ Scripting experience
✅ Builder community access
✅ Certificate + potential fellowship opportunities
Applications are open now → 
Join us today (23-Mar-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will discuss:
i) Lightning capacity vs spendable liquidity
ii) Why routes exist but payments fail
iii) Why channel management exists at all ?
iv) Channel factories, coin pools & multiparty channels
Based on René Pickhardt’s paper “A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks.”
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Join us today (19-Mar-2026) at 7:00 PM IST / 1:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Kernel Club
Session 6: Introduction to py-bitcoinkernel
We will cover:
i) What does language bindings mean and why do they exist?
ii) What is py-bitcoinkernel?
iii) Use-cases for py-bitcoinkernel.
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Join us today (16-Mar-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will discuss, Cluster Mempool 101
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