We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday December 8th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• Telegram

TBD

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday November 17th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• Telegram

TBD

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday October 13th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• Telegram

TBD

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday September 8th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• Telegram

InfoSec

• Liquid Hacked for 4000 BTC
• Core Lightning 26.06.7
• Disclosure: LND doesn’t wait for enough confirmations when closing channels
• Disclosure: Crashing CLN with a flood of pings
• Generate truly random seed words using only dice or playing cards

Research

• Enabling Threshold Custody for the Lightning Network with Nested Threshold Multi-Signatures
• Bitcoin Mempool Linearization
• PQC output type discussion

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday August 11th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Bitcoin

• Coldcard Security Advisory
• CoinKite Technical Deep Dive
• Galaxy Research Tracking Stolen Coins
• When random_bytes() runs but doesn’t work
• Coldcard Deep Dive
• Solving Bitcoin’s Self-Custody Trilemma
• Bitcoin Red Team
• BTCPayServer Security Advisory
• Blotz Disabled
• Blockstream Swaps
• BIP110 Falls Flat

Self Custody Post Mortem, Best Practices, Moving Forward. Discussion

• BIP39
• BIP32

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday July 21st. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Bitcoin

• Quantum Horizon

Misc

• Buzz
• Wavelength

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday May 12h. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Bitcoin

• Private Broadcast May Reveal Sender IP Address in Bitcoin Core 31.0
• BIP Proposal Removal of BIP 125 RBF signalling in wallet transactions
• BIP-0054 64-Byte Transactions and Potential Legitimate Uses
• A Post-Quantum Path for BIP 324
• Sparrow Silent Payments
• Quantum Game Theory
• BIP 450 Formosa

Lightning

• Post Quantum Lightning: Layer by Layer

Misc

• Bark on Mainnet
• Iroh 1.0
• Enclavia

LOCATION CHANGE!

We are back at Improving Inc this month. They have moved locations, double check the address below.

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday May 12h. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Core v31
• How wallet fingerprints damage Payjoin privacy
• Script Interpreter Remote Crash
• TCP Hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind home NATs?
• Hornet Update
• BIP322 Complete
• Bisq Exploit
• Block Proof of Reserves

Lightning

• Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network
• simple taproot channels
• LDK Server

Misc

• Liquid Network Roadmap
• Copy Fail

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday April 14th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe or somewhere else.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Bitcoin

• Presidio Bitcoin Quantum Report
• Binohash
• Quantum Safe Bitcoin Transactions without Softforks
• Post Quantum Bitcoin: Concepts of a Plan - A zk-STARK Escape Hatch for BIP-32 Wallets
• SHRIMPS
• Quantum Throughput
• Lattice HD Wallets: Post-Quantum BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets from Lattice Assumptions
• A practical attack against limited MuSig2 Nonce Reuse
• Slow blocks on Signet
• How wallet fingerprints damage Payjoin privacy

Lightning

• Splicing Spec Merged
• Cake Wallet adds Lightning

Misc

• Free Internetworking Peering System
• GrapheneOS Partners with Motorola
• Fedimint Lightning Gateway on Start9

This meetup will be run in the format of a Socratic Seminar, inspired by other BitDevs Socratic Seminars across the country.

This month’s theme will be vibe coding, OpenClaw, and agentic payments!

Bring your laptops!

Details

• Where: Improving Inc 3033 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 180, Minneapolis, MN 55416. Follow the abstract orange art piece to the elevators, go up to floor 1, and its straight down the hallway in Suite 180.
• When: Tuesday March 10th. Social gathering starts at 5pm. Socratic Seminar from 5:30 - 7pm.
• Happy Hour at Steel Toe.

Rules

• No Photos
• Be Respectful
• Keep the conversation technical
• Chatham House Rule

Helpful Links

• TC Bitcoin
• Twitter
• Website
• SimpleX

Agents

• OpenClaw
• Star History
• NanoClaw
• IronClaw
• Open-Source AI Needs to Get Serious
• L402
• x402
• Google CLI
• Unhuman.deals
• clawi.ai
• Lobster University
• Cloaked Wireless
• Marmot Protocol in NanoClaw
• Marmot CLI

Vibe Coding

• Large Scale Deanonymization with LLMs
• OpenCode
• Claude Code
• Codex
• Anthropic Skilljar

Model Providers

• MapleAI
• Routstr
• OpenRouter
• Venice AI
• Venice AI Privacy
• Privacy Policies
• Qwen

Bitcoin

• Binohash
• Forkalicious
• BIP54 Compatible Block
• Social Replay Exploit
• Cake Wallet adds Lightning
• Lattice HD Wallets: Post-Quantum BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets from Lattice Assumptions
• MtGox Hardfork

Misc

• Free Internetworking Peering System
• GrapheneOS Partners with Motorola
• Fedimint Lightning Gateway on Start9