Location

The event will be hosted at ALCHE:

Alche Pamplemousses, Mauritius | Map

Announcements

Join us for our Ninth Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust.

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

BIP-110, Bitcoin Governance & Lightning series

Duration: 1 Hour

Speaker: Sadiq

Meetup Agenda

1. Opening & Context (5 minutes)

Speaker: Sadiq

• What is happening in Bitcoin development right now?
• Introduction to BIP-110
• Why governance and consensus matter

2. BIP-110 Deep Dive (25 minutes)

Speaker: Sadiq

• What BIP-110 proposes
• The technical changes involved
• Consensus rules and activation
• The roles of Bitcoin Core developers, miners, node operators, and users
• What happens when the ecosystem disagrees
• Socratic discussion: Who actually controls Bitcoin?

3. Lightning Network — Continuing the Series (20 minutes)

Speaker: Sadiq

• Quick recap of previous Lightning concepts
• Connecting Lightning to Bitcoin's base-layer rules
• Deeper look at onion messaging and routing
• How Lightning continues to evolve on top of Bitcoin
• Open questions from previous sessions

4. Discussion & Closing (10 minutes)

Speaker: Sadiq

• Community discussion around BIP-110 and Lightning
• Key takeaways
• Questions and follow-up topics
• Preview of the next BitDevs session

• Btrust Builders