We're hoping to have an interim Bitdevs next week and I have been working on a list of topics. It's way too long, but I think that is the way a good bitdevs list should be.

It's not ranked in any particular order.

I'd love to have your suggestions about other things to add. (I certainly haven't paid enough attention to delving this last month).

ReleasesReleases

• Bitcoin Core v31
  • asmap
  • Private transaction broadcast
  • Cluster Mempool
• Final release of JoinMarket
• Megalithic releases Ruby NWC Client
• ColdCard 6.5.0 adds MuSig2 and Miniscript
• Frigate 1.4.0
• Knots new release v29.3 includes bip 110 RDTS
• boardwalk.cash becomes Agi.cash Bitcoin rewards
• nucula: Cashu ecash wallet for ESP32-C6 with NFC tap-to-pay

DelvingDelving

• Eltoo State Chain on Signet Again: Three Rounds, Two Transactions (CSFS + CTV, with rekey and ladder, no CAT)
• Discussion of using nested MuSig2 in the Lightning Network
• TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind home NATs?

Mailing ListMailing List

• Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication
• Declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules-tobysharp/hornet
• CVE-2024-52911 - Bitcoin Core Script Interpreter Remote Crash
• Simple Taproot Channels merged into BOLTs
• BIP Draft: P2P UTXO Set Sharing

BIPsBIPs

• BIP 138: Compact Encryption Scheme for Non-seed Wallet Data
• BIP 139: Wallet Metadata Backup Format
• BIP 323: 24 nVersion bits for general purpose use
• BIP 376: Spending silent payments with PSBTs - nymius
• BIP 450: Formosa—Seed Encoding per Themed Mnemonic Stories
• BIP 451: Dust UTXO Disposal Protocol

MiningMining

• OpenSats: Open Hardware for Open Money
• Bitcoin Mining Renaissance: Stratum V2, Nonce Space, and the DIY Miner Comeback
• Supertestnet's Hashrate Market Idea
• elektronics.dev
• Two Solo Blocks, One Operator, Over $500,000 - Solo Satoshi
• Find a Bitaxe seller - Bitaxe website gets an update
• ANTPOOL, Block, F2Pool, Foundry, MARA, SpiderPool & DMND Join SV2 working group

QuantumQuantum

• Bitcoin and Quantum Computing: A Roadmap - Neha Narula
• How to Resolve the Matter of Satoshi's Coins without a Freeze - Nic Carter
• OP_CHECKSHRINCS: A Hash-Based Signature Opcode for Post-Quantum Bitcoin
• ViaBTC started mining <1 sat vbyte transactions
• Zinc+: SNARKs for Polynomial Rings - Nethermind Research
• PACTs: Protecting Your Bitcoin From a Quantum Sunset
• Scott Aaronson AMA on Stacker News
• Alex Pruden AMA
• Project Eleven releases Quantum Vault

ToolsTools

• Bitcoin PIR
• SAKE: Script Army Knife Emulator - Nudvi
• SparkStalker
• Bitcoin Knowledge Base
• virtual-private-node: private Bitcoin and Lightning node manage from terminal UI
• TXRay
• Bitcoin Math Primer: Competing Poisson Processes
• hodlhodl testing "lightning" trades via arkade
• Monitoring of Bitcoin DNS seeds
• Pieter Wuille's tutorial for libsecp256k1
• Pyrus Financial - Bitcoin equity loans
• Roulette in a Bitcoin Payment Channel - Robin Linus
• bitcoinprivacy.wiki
• Bitcoin Math Puzzle #004: Selfish Mining

NewsNews

• Flaco - Building a Bitcoin Circular Economy: Five Spectrums You Have to Navigate
• Nik Bhatia: Stablecoins as Statecraft
• Allen Farrington - Number Go Down
• Brink - 2025 Engineering Impact Report
• Bitcoin Optech #400
• NYT says Adam Back is Satoshi
• Fake Ledger Nano S Plus's being sold on third-party marketplaces - BitcoinNews
• Our First Annual Report - 2140 Foundation
• New layer two proposal: Bitcoin Deposits - ynniv
• Defending Bitcoin - Luke de Wolf
• Grin lesson for bitcoin?
• Bitnodes.io shutting down?
• Unchained's new ad video in The Atlantic
• The Fabric of Desires - Nick Szabo (2026)
• 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' is almost a great bitcoin documentary
• Bisq vulnerability being exploited, trading halted
• Rusty Russell: I'm leaving Blockstream to try to start up CenturyMetadata.org
• John Carvalho releases Convservation of Blockspace paper