Location

The event will be hosted at Jenga Leo:

T Floor (Kilimanjaro room) WESTPARK TOWERS

Mpesi Ln, Nairobi

Map

Announcements

Join us on our Fourteenth Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Bitcoin

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MC: Brandon

• Bitcoin Core v29.0 release announcement
  • Bitcoin Core v29.0 release
• Which way, quantum Bitcoiner
  • Hash-Based Signature Schemes for Post-Quantum Bitcoin
  • Quantum Computing Group Offers 1 BTC to Whoever Breaks Bitcoin’s Cryptographic Key
• Bitcoindev mailing list update
• BIP 353 - DNS Payment Instructions
• Overpaid Transaction by 96642x 💀
• Pay To Anchor outputs
• SwiftSync – Speeding up IBD with pre-generated hints (PoC)
  • SwiftSync
• Educational and experimental-based secp256k1 implementation
  • secp256k1lab
• The 68-bit Bitcoin puzzle has been cracked

Mining

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MC: Simon

• Bitcoin Mining Centralization 2025
• Ocean Mining hits back to back blocks
• Block 892572 was mined by Foundry FOUR minutes BEFORE F2Pool mined Bitcoin Block 892571?
• Mysterious mining pool
• Timelocking coinbase transactions to the mined block’s height
• Mujina Firmware, from mining application for the Ember One to full support for Stratum V2
• SOLO BLOCK FOUND

Lightning Network

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MC: Isaack

• Lightning Wallet URIs
• LDK: Announcing Versioned Storage Services
• Lightning Loop now supports using your asset channels to perform Loop Out
• New Mempool Mystery (old dust, hashes, proto-inscriptions, and Russian history)

Ecash & Other Bitcoin Tech

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MC: okjodom

• Fedimint is coming to your Start9!
• BTCNUTSERVER 🥜😎

Upcoming Events & Announcements

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MC: Sharon

• Campus Tech Events with Bitnob
• Treasury seeks identity of digital asset owners in new Bill
• Africa Bitcoin Day - May 27, 2025
• Africa Bitcoin Conference 4th Edition