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image Join us today (07-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitshala Reading Club We're in Week 4 of The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel as part of the Bitcoin Reading Club. In today's session, we'll cover Chapters 13–16 and discuss the timeless principles behind better financial decisions, managing risk, understanding human behavior, and building long-term wealth. Whether you're new to personal finance or a seasoned Bitcoiner, you'll leave with practical insights that can improve the way you think about money. Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session :
Something exciting is about to begin! 🚀🔐 What a great start to The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin club! 🎉 We kicked off our first session by meeting one another, exploring the roadmap ahead, and beginning our journey through the cryptographic ideas that make Bitcoin possible. We have an exciting journey ahead! 🧠⚡
image 🎉Mastering Lightning Network Cohort – Season 3 has graduated! 🚀 Congratulations to everyone who completed the journey and deepened their understanding of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. 🔐 Applications are now open for the new seasons of: 1️⃣ Programming Bitcoin 2️⃣ Mastering Bitcoin 3️⃣ Mastering Lightning Network 📌 Apply here: Learn more about the cohorts on the Bitshala website bitshala.org/cohorts/
image Join us today, 6 August 2026, at 7:00 PM IST / 1:30 PM UTC for the first session of The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin club. We’ll introduce the full roadmap, from one-way functions, hashes, and Proof-of-Work to Merkle trees, elliptic curves, ECDSA, Schnorr, MuSig2, and FROST, and discuss what “hard” really means in cryptography. We’ll also meet one another before we begin. 🕒 Note on timing: Today’s session starts at 7:00 PM IST / 1:30 PM UTC. This is a one-off shift. From next week onward, we’ll return to the usual 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC, every Thursday.
image Join us today (05-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for TradFi & Bitcoin Club In today's session we will cover SeedSigner which is a DIY, offline, air-gapped, stateless Bitcoin transaction-signing device built from readily available, off-the-shelf components. It does not permanently store private keys on the device; instead, the wallet seed is entered or recovered when needed and kept separately. QR codes are used to transfer transaction data between SeedSigner and a watch-only wallet while keeping the signing device disconnected from the internet. i) Key Components required for building your own Seedsigner ii) Flashing SeedSigner software on SD Card iii) Understand SeedSigner’s DIY, offline, air-gapped, and stateless security model. iv) Features of SeedSigner v) Q&A Session Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server:
image Bitshala Bitcoinversations: Hyderabad Edition ⚡️ Join us for Bitshala Bitcoinversations in Hyderabad—a casual gathering for developers, enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the future of money. ​Whether you're a developer looking to contribute to Open Source, a student curious about the ecosystem, or a builder exploring new ideas, come grab a chair and join the conversation! 🎙️ Special Guest ​We are excited to be joined by Avi Burra, Bitcoiner, Novelist, Filmmaker, and Architect, who will be sharing his personal Bitcoin journey, unique perspective, and creative insights with the group. 📌 Register at:
image Join us today (04-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Hardware & Sovereignty Club We’re covering today, The Coldcard Exploit & Hardware RNG Audit: i) The Root Cause: How a linker bug redirected seed generation to weak software. ii) Architecture Comparisons: How Trezor, Ledger, Tangem, and Coldcard differ. iii) Minimizing Hardware Trust: Verify open-source code and perform key checks. iv) Hardware Wallets vs. Dedicated Phones: Are wiped old phones viable for self-custody? Join us in Bitshala discord lounge:
At Vadodara Bitcoin Meetup #7, we're doing something different. Most people use Bitcoin, but we will talk to it. Bring your laptop and spend two hours interacting directly with Bitcoin Core through the command line in the regtest mode. No wallets. No block explorers. No slides. Just you, a terminal, and the software that powers the world's first decentralized monetary network. This hands-on lab is designed as an introduction to Bitshala's Learn Bitcoin from the Command Line (LBTCL) cohort, one of our most loved technical programs. 📅 8 August 🕕 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM 💻 Bring your laptop Seats are limited. Register now: https://luma.com/n6pggu88%E2%9C%A8 image
image Join us today (03-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech Today, we will discuss: i) Random processes and entropy ii) Entropy’s relationship to private keys iii) How Satoshi generated entropy and private keys iv) How hardware wallets generate entropy v) Hardware-generated vs. human-generated entropy This primer will help participants make informed decisions amid recent concerns involving a particular hardware wallet. Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session:
image We’re bringing Bitshala to Chandigarh! 🚀 Bitcoin 101: How to Build Money Without a Middleman 🗓️Sunday, 23rd August 🕧11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Most financial systems run on institutional authority; Bitcoin runs on deterministic math, real-world physics, and game-theoretic incentives. This session strips away the market noise to inspect the core architecture from scratch, showing how basic cryptography, energy expenditure, and economic incentives build open, permissionless money. 📌Register now:
image ANNOUNCEMENT: LAUNCH OF A NEW BITSHALA CLUB 🚀⚡️ The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin Join us for our new club every Thursday at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC beginning from 06th Aug. In this club, we will learn what Bitcoin is actually made of. 🗓️ When: Every Thursday 🕕8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC 🎙️Hosted by: @sha512rma, M.Sc. Cybersecurity, Focus areas: ZK-ML, verifiable inference and compute, decentralized AI, applied cryptography, LLM guardrails, red-teaming, and differential privacy. We start with one-way functions and what "hard" really means in cryptography. From there we work through hash functions and how they become Proof-of-Work, Merkle trees and the proofs that let light clients verify a block, elliptic curves and the secp256k1 group your keys live in, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, and finally threshold schemes like MuSig2 and FROST. Bitcoin's security is not a matter of trust or opinion. It rests on a handful of mathematical assumptions, and in this club we will implement them ourselves. Join us in Bitshala discord lounge:
image Bitcoin Wallets: You Don't Store Bitcoin, You Manage Keys | Pune 📅 Saturday, 08th August ⏰ 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM Your wallet holds zero Bitcoin; it holds the exact mathematical secrets required to convince a global network that you have the right to move it. In this Bitshala meetup, we abandon consumer abstractions to focus on protocol reality: wallets are deterministic cryptographic key managers that construct and sign state transitions for an open ledger. 📌 Register now:
image Join us today (31-Jul-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitshala Reading Club We’re in Week 3 of "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel in the Bitcoin Reading Club. Today’s Reading Club explores four ideas from The Psychology of Money about building lasting wealth through disciplined saving, wise decisions, patience, and resilience. Join us for practical lessons on money, wealth, and long-term success. Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session :
image Bitcoin Transactions, Blocks and Mining | Andheri, Mumbai 📅 Saturday, 08th August 🕛 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Bitcoin has no accounts, no balances, and no central server, yet it reliably tracks value across thousands of independent nodes. In this session, we trace the full lifecycle of a transaction, from elliptic curves and address derivation to mempool dynamics, Merkle trees, and Nakamoto consensus, culminating in constructing and broadcasting a raw transaction directly onto the Bitcoin testnet. 📌Register now:
image Our first Bitcoin meetup in Kolkata is here! 🎉 Bitcoin 101: How Digital Money Works Without Banks 📅 Saturday, 22 August 🕦 11:30 AM–1:30 PM Every economy depends on a ledger to keep track of who owns what. Bitcoin is the first global financial ledger maintained by mathematics, cryptography, and a distributed network—not by banks. Join us for an interactive, beginner-friendly introduction to Bitcoin and how it works. No prior knowledge is required—just bring your curiosity! 📌Register now:
image Join us today (28-Jul-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Mining Club Today’s topics: i) Guest Journey: From non-tech to Bitcoin miner with Rajendra.sats ii) Live Demos: Node setup, port forwarding, templates, and pool mining iii) OCEAN Pool: Buying hash power and routing it directly to the pool Join us in Bitshala discord lounge:
🚀 Learn Bitcoin from Command Line (LBTCL) Season 4 starts has officially begun at Bitshala. Learn Bitcoin from the command line through a hands-on, 6-week cohort covering Bitcoin Core, node management, scripting, and real-world workflows. Welcome to LBTCL Season 4🧡 🔸Applications for upcoming cohorts are open: https://app.bitshala.org✨
image Join us today (27-Jul-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech Today, we will discuss BIP-54 Consensus Cleanup - That aims to fix: i) Time wrap attacks ii) Slow block validation attack iii) Merkele leaf ambiguity iv) Duplicate coinbase transactions Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session: Related Bitcoin Optech Newsletter No. 409
From excitement and confusion to clarity! ✨ Our beginner-friendly Bitcoin Blocks & Mining meetup in Pune (25-July-2026) was filled with thoughtful discussions, deep questions, hands-on learning, and plenty of joy. Thank you to everyone who joined and made it memorable! 🧡₿