Security Question REQUIRED. Please include your full name in the RSVP.

Presentations:

• Peter Todd - The good, bad, and ugly of proof-of-work

• Joseph Poon & Thaddeus Dryja - Lightning Network

Discussion Topics:

Bitcoin Core[masked]rc1
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.11/doc/release-notes.md

Github Issues / Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6835 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6842
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6844
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6850
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6851
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6871
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6915
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6954
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6973
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6907
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6915
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6776 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/3b20e239c602dd7d3ab85935ef9d1f6c5e1907d2 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5936 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6622 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6856 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6876
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6959

Weekly Developer Meetings
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3qamm5/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151022/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3r7qeu/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151029/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3s4ul1/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151105/

Summarizing security assumptions (re cost metrics)
http://bitcoin-development.narkive.com/0oSTjsYq/summarising-security-assumptions-re-cost-metrics

[BIP] Normalized transaction IDs
http://bitcoin-development.narkive.com/DjOYjEig/bip-normalized-transaction-ids

Weekly Mining Stats
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-25th-2015-mining-pool-statistics.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/11/november-1st-2015-block-maker-statistics.html

The Challenges of Blockhain Indexing
https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-block-chain-indexing-30527cf4bfbd

Bitoin-NG Feedback Review
http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/11/09/bitcoin-ng-followup/

Epicenter Bitcoin: Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal - Network emulation of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-NG
https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-103

DevCore 2015 (talks/panels by/with Greg Maxwell, Matt Corallo, Jeff Garzik and Gavin Andresen)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=devcore+draper+university+2015&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

Transition to quantum resistant algorithms
https://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/suiteb_cryptography/

A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf