Location

MicroStrategy HQ, 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza, Tysons Corner, VA 22182

Agenda

5:30pm - Doors open and social hour
6:30pm - BitDevs Socratic Seminar
9:30pm - Departure

Socratic Seminar

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

1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.

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

Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!

News

• Steak and Shake accepts Bitcoin
  • https://x.com/SteaknShake/status/1923426316478558571
• Block to roll out accepting bitcoin payments on square terminals
  • https://squareup.com/us/en/press/block-to-roll-out-bitcoin-payments-on-square
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/05/31/bitcoin-breaks-a-guinness-world-record-with-4000-pos-payments/

Bitcoin

• Relay policy merged into core
  • https://bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/06/relay-statement/
  • https://knotsgoup.vercel.app/
• Bitcoin devs sign letter advocating for CTV+CSFS
  • https://ctv-csfs.com
• BDK-wallet 2.0.0
  • https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk_wallet/releases/tag/wallet-2.0.0
• NFC support for reading NFC in Phoenix
  • https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases/tag/android-v2.6.1
  • https://github.com/btcpayserver/BTCPayServer.Lightning/pull/169

Lightning

• Stable channels
  • https://stablechannels.com/
• Yield bros rejoice
  • https://x.com/ambosstech/status/1928194644699140509
  • https://x.com/moneyball/status/1930259490076553719
  • https://x.com/bitrefill/status/1930217463779676334

Policy

• Clarity Act
  • https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633/text/ih
  • https://saveourwallets.org/

Research

• Utxo dust clearing
  • https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/dust-expiry-clean-the-utxo-set-from-spam/1707
  • https://research.mempool.space/utxo-set-report/
• SCEWL - Sharing Coins Effectively with Ladders
  • https://supertestnet.github.io/scewl/
• LOCK protocol
  • https://github.com/bramkanstein/lock-protocol
• New Opcodes
  • https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/blob/207e292ac989c8b628feed31f22020764b6b71e9/bip-unknown-covenant-support-opcodes.mediawiki

Submit suggestions for next meeting!

Issues on Github: https://github.com/dcbitdevs/dcbitdevs.github.io/issues