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@Spiral should post on Nostr more!!

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Now and then, you sponsor a grantee who presents you with a conundrum: you can 1) try to respectfully summarize their accomplishments in a way that...

Realised I had a lot of knowledge gaps to fill so I filled some of them in writing this piece

Bitcoin node roles and network topology

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📣📣📣 Perth BitDevs/Bitcoin Meetup for April 2026 When: TONIGHT - Thursday 2nd April, 6pm Where: Rocky Ridge Brewing Co, Burswood Topics: * BIP-54 Consensus Cleanup - timewarp fix, validation time limits, Merkle tree hardening, deployment debate * BIP-110 update - Sybil nodes exposed, willcl_ark crawler shows only 254 genuine nodes out of 3,312 * PQ signature advances - lattice-based HD wallets (BIP-32-style key derivation for post-quantum) * SHRIMPS - Jonas Nick's 2.5KB multi-device stateful hash-based PQ signatures, successor to SHRINCS * IBD optimizations - l0rinc's ~16% speedup, Ruben Somsen's SwiftSync (5x faster), LevelDB tuning * Bitcoin TUI - terminal user interface for Bitcoin Core * Fuzzor Dashboard - Niklas Goegge's live fuzzing coverage dashboard for Bitcoin Core * Channel splicing BOLT merged - 8 years from concept to spec, resize channels without closing * Rare 2-block reorg at height 941,881 * ProductionReady - new "conservative" Bitcoin client, 501(c)(3) from Jimmy Song, Samson Mow, Parker Lewis * ...and more! Suggestions are open for additional topics to discuss!

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April bit devs · Issue #34 · PerthBitDevs/PerthBitDevs

April 2026 Perth BitDevs Perth BitDevs/Bitcoin Meetup is (almost) always held on the first Thursday of each month When: 6pm Thursday 2nd April 2026...

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Monthly socratic seminar exploring Bitcoin development, protocol changes, and the broader technical ecosystem.

Pick almost any aspect of Bitcoin and prepare to be humbled and ready for a deep rabbit hole. Currently digging into addr, addrv2, getaddr, et al and boy, there’s much more to these aspects than appears on the surface. "Token bucket" rate limiters, 6 or 7 different peer types, 24-hour cache for getaddr response, etc etc 😅

Pretty impressed with qwen3.5 35B as a private local model. Integrated vision, decent tool calling, reasoning/thinking that can be toggled. It’s slow but has proven adequate in an OpenClaw harness for a few workflows I’ve got - private document interpretation/processing/organisation I do wonder what the hardware requirements are for such local models to be capable of most general consumer use cases (this model at 35B is not there), probably100s of GB at this point in time?

Remember machine-to-machine payment discussions that were all the rage a few years ago?? Maybe we will finally see some traction in this area with agentic payments!!

When I was younger I read widely but was very much into Tom Clancy, Matthew Reilly et al.. stories that were real or realistic(-ish). Not much sci-fi or high fantasy (although I smashed Harry Potter like many of the generation) In the last few years I’ve really enjoyed branching out into these genres. Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series… the opening scene of Consider Phlebas had me hooked! And the trilogy of first Mistborn books was 🔥🔥🔥 Open to recommendations

Very happy to renew @Kagi for a 3rd year 🎉 Kagi News (free for all) has been a great addition to the product suite in the last year And looking forward to Search API coming out of beta one day soon too…

I think forging higher living standards in the developed world now means higher expenditure of “intelligence tokens” (recognising that this just reduces to energy usage, like the original correlation)

Self-hosted (private) agents that can navigate the web (well) to do your bidding would be 🔥🔥🔥

I don’t really understand all the hype about Karpathy’s autoresearch.. I mean it’s on the path to the self-improving AI flywheel, but it’s like a small step from hyperparameter tuning which we’ve been doing for many years.. .. unrelated, I do wish there were more ML/AI researchers/practitioners posting here on Nostr!

What’s the go here @Magic Internet Math??

📣📣📣 Perth BitDevs/Bitcoin Meetup for March 2026 When: Thursday 5th March, 6pm Where: Rocky Ridge Brewing Co, Burswood Topics: * Bitcoin Core v31 feature freeze - cluster mempool (SFL), embedded ASMap, private tx broadcast * Gloria Zhao steps down as Bitcoin Core maintainer * BIP-110 update - cache poisoning bug, defections, OP_RETURN war, prediction markets <10%, first signalled block * NestedMuSig2 security proof (Nadav Kohen, Chaincode Labs) * Quantum resistance - BIP-360 P2MR, algorithmic agility, the quantum freeze * PIPEs v2 - covenants & ZK proofs without consensus changes * Binohash - transaction introspection via DER signature length * P2P protocol BIPs - stale tip relay & BIP-434 peer feature negotiation * FIBRE resurrected - UDP + FEC block relay back online (~30ms propagation) * Sloth - secure group messaging over Nostr (MLS/Marmot protocol) * Phishing attacks targeting Cake Wallet & Sparrow Wallet users * ...and more! Suggestions are open for additional topics to discuss!

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March 2026 Perth BitDevs · Issue #32 · PerthBitDevs/PerthBitDevs

March 2026 BitDevs Perth BitDevs/Bitcoin Meetup is (almost) always held on the first Thursday of each month When: 6pm Thursday 5th March 2026 Where...

And be sure to check out the new fresh paint on the website

Perth BitDevs

Monthly socratic seminar exploring Bitcoin development, protocol changes, and the broader technical ecosystem.

Amen: “Whatever the U.S. government does to threaten Anthropic, the AI company should know that their corporate customers, the public, and the engineers who make their products are expecting them not to cave. They, and all other technology companies, would do best to refuse to become yet another tool of surveillance.”

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Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their tech...

Life imitates Bluey - Sleepytime Probably familiar to many parents, there are at least 3 bed swaps every night in our household, sometimes more Here’s the full episode (480p), the sound and music in this one is top-notch