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Presentations:

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Discussion topics:

0.12.0rc1-3
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012356.html
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.12/doc/release-notes.md
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWeIEFBrItE

Github Issues/Pull Requests
(open)https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7292
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7310
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7376
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7404
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7464(/open
(merged)https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7312
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7164
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7386
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7177
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7453
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7439
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7431(/merged

IRC Meetings
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/41kfyg/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20160114/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/42mg3t/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20160121/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43p44a/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20160128/

[bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus Phase 2
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012235.html

[bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012358.html
https://github.com/gavinandresen/bips/blob/bump2mb/bip-bump2mb.mediawiki
http://gavinandresen.ninja/a-guided-tour-of-the-2mb-fork
https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/releases/tag/v0.11.2.cl1.b2

Pre-BIP Growth Soft-hardfork
https://github.com/luke-jr/bips/blob/bip-mmhf/bip-mmhf.mediawiki

[bitcoin-dev] Hardfork bit BIP
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012342.html
https://github.com/jl2012/bips/blob/47690bae2a0a9ff317a6f592e3696ae5084900e6/hardforkbit.mediawiki

A Market For Bitcoin Transaction Fees?
http://hashingit.com/analysis/47-bitcoin-tx-fees

[bitcoin-dev] Segregated Witness App Development
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012253.html

SegWit Testnet Explorer
https://segnet.smartbit.com.au/

Weak Blocks – The Good And The Bad
http://popeller.io/index.php/2016/01/19/weak-blocks-the-good-and-the-bad/

Transaction Cut-Through
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=281848.0

[curves] Confidential Transactions and “Borromean” ring signatures– ZK proof applications of ECC
https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/curves/2015/000534.html

A detailed description of how Bitcoin Elements Alpha Confidential Transactions works
https://github.com/AdamISZ/ConfidentialTransactionsDoc

Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin (OWAS)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290971.0

Great Repository of Research Papers
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/?C=M;O=D

Financial Cryptography 2016 (more good papers)
http://fc16.ifca.ai/

Monero Fork
https://forum.getmonero.org/1/news-announcements-and-editorials/2452/monero-network-malicious-fork-from-block-913193-updates-and-resolution

[Lightning-dev] Lightning C prototype v0.2: “Butterfly Labs’ Timely Delivery”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-January/000406.html

Lightning Network Repos
https://github.com/LightningNetwork/lnd
https://github.com/LightningNetwork/lightning-onion
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning   
https://github.com/matsjj/thundernetwork

[Lightning-dev] Laundry list of inter-peer wire protocol changes
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-January/000408.html

[Lightning-dev] “2-of-3 Multisig Contract” Equivalent on Lightning
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-January/000403.html

Harmony and Discord
https://bitcointalk.org/dec/p1.html