🚀 Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) Cohort | Season 3 Want to go deeper into how Bitcoin works at the protocol level? A 6-week immersive cohort designed to take you into Bitcoin Protocol Development through hands-on learning. Built around Bitcoin Protocol Development by Chaincode Labs, the cohort combines coding challenges with weekly question assignments to help you engage directly with the protocol. 📅 Starts 16 October 2026 🕗 Fridays, 8:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM UTC Apply now: https://app.bitshala.org✨ ⚡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 📌 Apply here:

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TradFi & Bitcoin Club | 8 PM on Discord Today, we continue our Early Riders’ Top 50 Bitcoin Companies series with host Digant Bhujbal. Join us today, 30th September at 8:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM UTC as we explore the evolution of financial infrastructure around Bitcoin. We’ll cover: 🔹 Custody, institutional rails, and settlement 🔹 Why some business models scaled while others collapsed 🔹 The evolution of financial infrastructure 🔹 Lessons for building durable Bitcoin businesses 🔹 Why compliance, custody, and institutional-grade infrastructure matter 8 PM only on Discord:

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Are you a developer who has completed multiple cohorts, explored open source, and knows you want to work in the space, but still haven’t made the leap from learning to contributing? This session is designed for you. The First PR: Your 0 → 1 Guide to Open Source We’ll break down the path from curious developer to active contributor, including how to find the right repository, identify a meaningful first issue, understand an unfamiliar codebase, work with maintainers, and make your first Pull Request. 📍Sat, Oct 3rd | 3 PM | Live on our Discord :

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Register on Luma to get a reminder, and join our Discord to explore other Bitshala clubs and sessions happening every week. 🟠 Saturday, 3rd Oct '26 | 3:00 PM IST | 9:30 AM UTC 📍 Live on our Discord:

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🟠 Mumbai Workshop | 10 Oct '26 | Privacy on Bitcoin 🎟️ Register: http://luma.com/2vt8n3ap✨ 🕐 11:45 AM - 2:00 PM Privacy on Bitcoin isn’t automatic. It starts with understanding how Bitcoin works. We’ll dive deeper into: • How can your transactions reveal more than you realise? • What metadata can leak? • How does chain analysis work? Join us for an in-depth, hands-on workshop exploring the core principles of Bitcoin privacy, common privacy leaks, and practical ways to better protect your financial privacy. Limited spots. Register now 👇

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How has Bitcoin self-custody evolved over 17 years? And what does sovereignty look like today? 🟠 Join Bitcoin Hardware & Sovereignty Club today, 29 Sep | 8 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC, with host Shivam. We’ll explore: 🔹 ETFs, exchanges & self-custody 🔹 From Satoshi’s full node to BIP32/BIP39 🔹 Custodian risks & the Coldcard RNG flaw 🔹 Multivendor multisig, steel backups & Miniscript inheritance 📍 8 PM only on Discord:

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🚀 Mastering Bitcoin Cohort | Season 8 Registration's NOW OPEN for Season 8 of the Mastering Bitcoin Cohort. You don’t need to be a developer to understand Bitcoin, you need the curiosity to go deeper. From transactions and wallets to scripts, mining, and consensus, go beyond the surface and understand how Bitcoin works under the hood through self-study, live sessions, and group discussions. 🎟️ Registration is now open: http://app.bitshala.org✨ *After applying, check your email to join the Discord and get started. Based on Mastering Bitcoin, 3rd Edition by Andreas Antonopoulos 📚 Reading material:

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Privacy on Bitcoin has long been considered a missing piece, but a recent proposal aims to change that. Join us today (28-Sep-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech Today, we discuss: 🔹What is Shielded Bitcoin? 🔹The Two-Layer Architecture 🔹The Shielded Transaction Model 🔹How a Shielded Payment Works 🔹Properties, Limitations & Open Questions 📍 8 PM only on Discord:

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This session covers the core ideas from the recent Shielded Bitcoin paper. 📖 Paper: https://www.allocinit.xyz/uploads/shielded-bitcoin.pdf

Despite many registrations, today’s (27-Sept-2026) workshop in Chandigarh turned into an intimate 1-on-1 deep dive. We took full advantage of the situation to explore the first principles of money: from the properties of gold to the evolution of fiat and the emergence of Bitcoin. Sometimes the best conversations happen when you throw the script away! ⚡️

Had a blast diving deep into the Lightning Network in Pune (26-Sep-2026)⚡️ From the mechanics of payment channels to how Layer 2 scales Bitcoin for global adoption, the discussions were truly insightful. A huge thanks to everyone who joined us to explore the future of instant, low-cost payments. Stay tuned for the next one! 🚀

🟠 Bitshala Meetup in Surat | Decoding Bitcoin (26-Sept-2026) Our first meetup in Surat was a meaningful conversation around one question: What problem was Bitcoin created to solve? To understand any solution, one must first understand the problem it was created to solve. We explored the history of money and the monetary problems Bitcoin emerged in response to, helping participants understand why Bitcoin is fundamentally different from just another asset. A few wanted to go deeper, so we happily recommended The Bitcoin Standard by Dr. Saifedean Ammous and Broken Money by Lyn Alden as starting points. Thank you, Surat. We’re just getting started. 🟠

Huge thanks to everyone who joined the Hyderabad Meetup today (26-Sept-2026) 🧡 We went deep into Bitcoin wallets, self-custody, and what it really means to hold your own keys. Special shoutout to codingp for the brilliant presentation on wallets & self-custody 🔐 See you at the next one 🫡

Just wrapped an incredible Bitcoin multisig workshop in Chennai (26-Sept-2026)🟠🧡 What we covered hands-on: 🧠 Multisig basics - why 1-key security is a single point of failure 🔑 Generated 3 independent seeds using Seedsigner 📤 Loaded XPUBs & built a 2-of-3 multisig wallet on Sparrow wallet + Nunchuk wallet ✍️ Created a 2-of-3 transaction on both wallets 🔄 Exchanged PSBTs between signers ✅ Broadcast the final signed transaction From seeds to a live broadcast in one session, that's how you truly understand multisig. 🔐 Huge thanks to everyone who showed up, built, and learned together. 🟠

🧡 That's a wrap on Bitcoin 101 with Bitshala! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Mumbai today (26-Sept-2026). We traced the full journey: 🔑 Private Key → 📬 Address → 💰 UTXO → ✉️ Transaction → 🌐 Mempool → 📦 Block → ⛏️ PoW → 🔗 Blockchain Bitcoin fundamentals, hands-on with @SparrowWallet , and a whole lot of learning. Thanks to everyone who showed up! 🙌 See you at the next one ⚡

The Bitcoin Mining 101 workshop (26-Sept-2026) in Kolkata just wrapped up 🟠⚡️ A huge thank you to everyone who showed up to explore how Bitcoin turns electricity into decentralized consensus; no clock, no central server, no authority, just pure thermodynamic truth. 🔥 We unpacked: UTXOs, Hash functions, Cryptography, Bitcoin scarcity, Mining, Running a node Missed it? Keep an eye out for the next one. The rabbit hole only gets deeper. 🐇🧡

📍 8 cities 8 meet-ups 🗓️ 26–27 September This weekend, Bitshala meetups are happening across India 🇮🇳 Mumbai | Kolkata | Bengaluru | Chennai | Pune | Surat | Hyderabad | Chandigarh From mining and Lightning to multisig, self-custody, UX, transactions, and the fundamentals of Bitcoin. If you’ve been curious about Bitcoin, come join us. ➡️ Find your city and register now: http://luma.com/bitshala✨

Why did Gold win the Commodity War and how did banking evolve from there? Join Bitshala Reading Club today at 8:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM UTC as we continue reading Broken Money by Lyn Alden. Today, we’ll cover Chapters 3-6, exploring: 🔹 Why Gold Won the Commodity War 🔹 The Evolution of the Banking System 📍 8 PM on Discord:

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What really happens when you sign a Bitcoin transaction? ⚡️ Join us today, 24th September at 8:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM UTC for The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin club with @sha512rma. Building on last week’s introduction to Digital Signatures, we’ll unpack the math behind Bitcoin: • Schnorr Interactive Proof: Prove you own a key without revealing it • Fiat-Shamir Transform: How hashing turns proofs into signatures • Nonce Reuse Catastrophe: The one mistake that can leak your private key 📍 8 PM on Discord:

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TradFi & Bitcoin Club | 8 PM on Discord ⚡ Today, we continue our Early Riders’ Top 50 Bitcoin Companies series. Join us today, 23rd September at 8:00 PM IST | 2:30 PM UTC as we explore the companies and business models that helped shape Bitcoin’s growth. We’ll cover: • Blockstream and the evolution of Bitcoin infrastructure • How exchanges, custody, mining, and financial services expanded • The shift from early infrastructure to larger-scale businesses • How business models evolved as the market matured • Where companies captured value, and where they struggled • Why Binance represents an important transition into the next phase of the industry 📍 8 PM on Discord:

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🎙️Bitcoin Talks with Balaji Chandra🎙️ siat does it take to go from Bitcoin investor to open-source contributor and hardware builder? Our latest episode follows Bala’s journey into Bitcoin development, from Bitshala cohorts and transaction introspection to building open-source libraries and hardware at Bitasha India. We talk about: - Learning Bitcoin by building and doing, not just studying theory - UTXO coin selection and open-source Rust libraries - Transaction introspection, covenants, and scripting limits - Vaults, timelocks, and better self-custody - Building miners, SeedSigners and steel seed plates in India - Fuzz testing and contributing to Bitcoin infrastructure - Protocol ossification and the future of Bitcoin development Whether you’re a developer, builder, or simply curious about how Bitcoin gets built, this conversation is worth your time. 🎬 Watch the full episode:

🟠 HYDERABAD Meetup | 26 SEPTEMBER ➡️ Bitcoin Wallets & Self Custody Your Bitcoin wallet doesn’t hold your bitcoin. It holds the keys that control it. So what does it actually mean to own your Bitcoin? - How do wallets work? - How should you back up your recovery phrase? - How do you verify transactions without relying on a third party? Join Bitshala to learn the fundamentals of Bitcoin wallets and self-custody. 📅 Sat, 26th Sep | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM 🎟️ Register:

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