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

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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

IMO, there is a strong analogy between Bitcoin’s censorship resistance properties and free speech Just as free speech permits abhorrent speech as the necessary cost of a free society... ...Bitcoin's censorship resistance necessitates non-monetary uses as the cost of sound money.

For me, AI coding has a bit of a Civilisation (the game) kinda vibe.. ..Just one more prompt (turn)

SA secures Australian MotoGP, world-first street circuit announced

The South Australian government has confirmed the Australian MotoGP will move to Adelaide from 2027, bringing with it huge economic benefits, but t...

That’s payback for stealing Formula 1 in the 90s, ya bastards

Ugh cascading computer hardware failures are the worst 🤬

I am a bit of a data hoarder but finally today took the plunge and deleted TBs of data from previous employment and projects. TB because it was a lot of video and imagery used to train ML! It’s a world I am not going back to, so about time I had a clean break. Now I can start to hoard data for my new line of work, Bitcoin network monitoring 👹

In a matter of a few hours I’ve got a completely private via Signal and self-hosted LLM (qwen2.5-tools) agent to interact with and use. It’s “self-configuring” and pretty capable for what it is (32B parameter model). It’s a tool I can comfortably use with my private documents, without worry of leaking to a provider. I understand the hype..

Got a separate (e)SIM to experiment with sandboxed OpenClaw Not quite “fuck around and find out” but let’s play

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Got the new GreenBit satboy v2 last night at BitDevs 🍃 SILENT ~1.1 TH/s miner 🤫 Designed, developed and assembled in Perth, WA 🇦🇺

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Gloria Zhao Thank you for your many, many contributions, and you service and dedication to Bitcoin Core over a number of years The incessant bullying and vitriol that has led to this has been very sad to see Unfortunately I think this will lead to contributors being less willing to be “on the record” or talking to journalists or media etc, but understandably they won’t want to open themselves to what we’ve seen happen to Gloria (maybe come back as a nym when you’re ready)