Socratic Seminar | Denver BitDevs #29

This month will be an open discussion. Just barely a week on the heels of the halving, there are already many important developments happening.

We will poll through the group for interest and spend 10-15 minutes on 3 different topics. We'll break halfway through and resume for another 45 minutes for 3 more topics. We encourage participation though it is not required. The best discussions are fostered through asking open-ended questions. Here's a handy list.

Here are just some of the things that have happened lately as a range of potential discussion topics:

• Bitcoin Privacy is under attack (1, 2)
• The Future of Bitcoin Testnet is uncertain
• Nonstandard bitcoin use-cases continue and cause Halving Fee Chaos
• An epic sat was sold for 33 BTC
• Block templating and fee maximization (See Ocean Halving Block Template Leaves 37 BTC Fees On The Table)
• Legislation around self-custody wallets and definition "money transmitter" (Coincenter)
• Various BIPs assigned (ex: OP_CAT)
• BitVM2 update
• Cashu USD ecash
• For an extensive list of topics and developments ocurring this month, visit bitdevs.org.

### Agenda:

• 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Meet & Greet / Announcements & Treasury Update
• 7:00 pm - 7:50 - Open Discussion
• 7:50 pm - 8:00 - Break
• 8:00 pm - 8:50 pm: Open Discussion

Free Pizza and Beer will be provided for attendees. Denver BitDevs is a free-to-join, community nonprofit organization and you can help sustain our group through a donation.

This is a Bitcoin meetup - our meetups and events have a simple and singular focus: Bitcoin. All of our topics and discussions will be centered around Bitcoin, the global monetary network, and bitcoin, the reserve asset. If you are interested in crypto tokens, stocks, blockchains, altcoins, alternative investing, NFTs, etc, there are a number of other meetups to join. This meetup however is just focused on Bitcoin.

We follow Chatham House Rules. Please, no photos.