Announcements

Please join us for our 21st socratic seminar in the city of Victoria. Please make sure you are RSVP’d, an identifier (but not a full name) is required for entry.

As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:

• No photos, videos, or recordings
• Chatham House Rule: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it
• Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!
• Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Delving Bitcoin

• Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments
• Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network
• BIP 360 + PQ authorization as a native Bitcoin PQ vault lane?
• BIP Proposal: Stateless PSBT Coordination (Blind Relay)
• New Utreexo releases
• Letting Untrusted LLMs Sign Bitcoin Batches: MCP Bridge + TEE-Enforced 25-Tx Daisy Chains

Meetings

Bitcoin Core general developer meetings

• March 26
• April 2
• April 9

Lightning Specification Meetings

• 2026/03/09
• 2026/04/06

Optech

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #400
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #402

Mining

• Bitcoin mining report: Q1 2026

Quantum

• Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear
• “I” Spent “200” Hours Reading Quantum Computing Papers So You Don’t Have To
• BIP 361
• SHRIMPS: 2.5 KB post-quantum signatures across multiple stateful devices
• Bitcoin’s Quantum Readiness: Exposure, Mitigations, and Upgrade Paths
• The case for freezing quantum vulnerable coins

Research

• Deanonymizing Bitcoin Transactions via Network Traffic Analysis with Semi-supervised Learning

InfoSec

• Am I Exposed
  • What does it detect…
• Bitrefill Hack
• Jimmy Song hacked
• Till Death or Seed Phrase: Woman Accused of Spying on Husband, Stealing $172 Million in Bitcoin
• Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones
• Drift Protocol on Solana hacked
• Three Tennessee Men Arrested In Connection With Crypto Heist Near Dolores Park
• Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store stole $9.5M in crypto
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data
• UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones
• KelpDAO Exploit
  • KELPDAO EXPLOIT: DOES AAVE HAVE BAD DEBT OR NOT?
  • North Korean hackers blamed for $290M crypto theft

New Releases

• LND v0.21.0-beta Release Candidate
• Core Lightning v26.04
• Bitcoin Core 31.0

Miscellaneous

• STRC, SATA, and the Bitcoin-Backed Preferred Family
• The Third Way: The Case for a Third Implementation
• BIP 54: Consensus Cleanup
• Utreexo update

AI

• Money For AI
• 402 Index
• Github scaling hard to cope with AI generated slop

Meme of the day

• De-gen-Fi