Join us today (17-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will cover:
i) A brief introduction to formal verification
ii) How it can be used to verify Bitcoin's consensus rules
iii) btc-verified, a tool built for this purpose
For more details,see OptechNewsletter No. 414 
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #414
This week’s newsletter describes a new project to apply formal verification to the Bitcoin protocol. Also included are our regular sections annou...
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Privacy on Bitcoin | Vashi, Navi Mumbai
🗓️Saturday, 22nd August
🕜 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Privacy on Bitcoin isn't automatic; it's a choice built on understanding how the protocol operates.
Join us for an in-depth, hands-on workshop dedicated to understanding and mastering the core principles of privacy protection when using Bitcoin.
Whether you are looking to secure your personal transactions, avoid common metadata leaks, or gain a deeper technical grasp of chain analysis, this session will give you the knowledge and practical tools to take control of your financial privacy.
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Join us today (14-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitshala Reading Club
We're in the final week of The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel as part of the Bitcoin Reading Club.
We’ll cover Chapters 17–20 and recap key lessons on money, risk, behavior, and long-term wealth.
Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server for the session : 
Join us today (13-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin club
In today's session, We’ll explore:
i) One-Way Functions and computational hardness
ii) Discrete Logarithms and SHA-256
iii) Hard-core predicates
iv) Digital signatures, Fiat–Shamir, and Schnorr nonce reuse
Plus, a practical look at how these functions transition into Digital Signatures, featuring the Fiat-Shamir Transform and a critical warning on the dangers of nonce reuse in Schnorr signatures.
Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server: 
Bitshala Bitcoinversations : Delhi Edition ⚡️
🗓️ Sunday, 16th August
🕜 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for Bitshala Bitcoinversations in Delhi, a casual gathering for developers, enthusiasts, and anyone curious about the future of money.
🎙️Special Guest :
We are excited to be joined by Suyash, Device Engineer at Trezor, who will be sharing his experience working on Bitcoin hardware, his journey in the ecosystem, and insights into building secure, open-source devices for self-custody.
Whether you're interested in hardware wallets, Bitcoin security, open-source development, or simply curious about how Bitcoin devices are built, this will be a great opportunity to learn and ask questions.
📌Register now: 
Mastering Bitcoin (MB) Cohort - Season 6 begins TODAY! 🚀
Orientation session - 13th August 2026 - 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
Based on Mastering Bitcoin (3rd edition) by Andreas Antonopoulos, this eight-week cohort will help you understand how Bitcoin works, from transactions, wallets, and nodes to mining, consensus, and security. The program combines self-study, discussions, and live sessions.
✅ No coding experience required. If you’re new to Bitcoin and want to learn from the basics, this is a great place to start.
We’re kicking off the Orientation Call today in Bitshala Discord Server 
Join us today (12-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for TradFi & Bitcoin Club
In today's session, We’ll explore Liana Wallet, an open-source, self-custodial Bitcoin wallet featuring:
i) Time locks and inheritance-friendly recovery
ii) Miniscript and Taproot support
iii) Coin control
iv) Flexible multisig configurations
Plus, a hands-on session where we’ll set up wallets for different needs: simple inheritance, expanding multisig, or your own custom setup.
Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server: 
Bitshala is coming to Parul University, Vadodara to help students go from writing code to contributing to real-world software.
📅 Aug 14 | 12:30 PM
📍 Parul University, Vadodara
Student → Contributor: How to Break into the FOSS World
Learn:
• Git & GitHub
• How open-source projects actually work
• How to make your first contribution
• AI tools for developers
• Bitcoin as an engineering case study
Open to all. Register: 
Join us today (11-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Bitcoin Hardware & Sovereignty Club
We’ll explore:
i) Android SecureRandom and the wallet thefts it enabled
ii) “Milk Sad” and 120,000+ affected wallets
iii) Why critical key-generation failures keep recurring—and how to fix them
Join us in Bitshala discord lounge: 
Join us today (10-Aug-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech
Today, we will discuss Anzen, a vault construct that claims to achieve a balance between "Security", "Ease of Use" and "Trustlessness" w.r.t self-custody of Bitcoin.
The article explaining Anzen can be found here: 
Not Your Entropy, Not Your Bitcoin | Chennai
📅 Saturday, 15th August
🕡 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
What if your 24-word seed looks perfectly random… but really isn’t? We usually trust our hardware wallet, phone, or computer to generate that secret for us. It gives us 12 or 24 random-looking words, we write them down, and move on.
This meetup is about understanding what actually sits underneath the words randomness, entropy, and secure key generation, without treating the wallet as a black box.
Seats are limited.
📌Register now: 
