Merge pull request #20 from bitdevsamsterdam/josie-add-may-agenda

add may agenda

Author: JWBurgers

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+title: "BitDevs Arnhem, May 24th 2024"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/bitdevs-amsterdam/events/299099009/
+published: true
+---
+
+## BitDevs <s>Amsterdam</s> Arnhem meeting 010!
+
+It's time for a special edition of BitDevs, _The Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem Conference Edition!_ We hope to have a lot of friends from out of town joining, so we'll be meeting at a different place and different time than usual! Please read the details below carefully!
+
+### Friday, May 24th 2023 @ 4PM
+
+We will be meeting in Arnhem to kick off the [Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem](https://adoptingbitcoinarnhem.com/) conference:
+
+* Address: Coehoornstraat 17, 6811 LA Arnhem
+* Google maps link: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/TUKXPgpF3qA9Ya2k7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/TUKXPgpF3qA9Ya2k7)
+
+<br />
+Doors open at 4:00PM and we will try to start promptly at 4:30PM. Light snacks will be provided.
+
+Please RSVP (either through our meetup page or to *bitdevsamsterdam at protonmail dot com*) as we are expecting a larger crowd than usual. We hope to see you at both the BitDevs and the Adopting Bitcoin conference over the next few days! Let's kick off the conference with a bang!
+
+As a reminder, the BitDevs rules are:
+
+1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
+2. [Chatham House Rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule): you may
+   reiterate the contents of the meeting *without* attribution.
+
+<br />
+These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely during the event.
+
+## In the news
+
+* [Craig Wright is not Satoshi](https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf)
+* Tornado Cash
+  * [Ruling breakdown](https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1790367445720445421)
+  * ["Developing Financial Privacy Tools Was Today Criminalized By the Dutch Court"](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/developing-financial-privacy-tools-was-today-criminalized-by-the-dutch-court-)
+  * ["Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech" (a steel man)](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tornado-cash-not-free-speech-its-golem)
+* Samourai Wallet
+  * [Founders arrested]("https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering")
+  * [Defense fund - p2prights.org](https://p2prights.org/)
+  * [Wasabi shuts down coordinator](https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1786083838415769673)
+  * [Phoenix withdraws from US app store](https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1783878735168507972)
+
+## Bitcoin Core Dev Tech Recap
+
+* [Topics and transcripts](https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2024-04/)
+  * [cisaresearch.org](https://cisaresearch.org)
+  * [Weak blocks](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/second-look-at-weak-blocks/805)
+  * [Great Consensus Cleanup](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710)
+  * [Impacts of cluster mempool on 2023 data](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/research-into-the-effects-of-a-cluster-size-limited-mempool-in-2023/794)
+  * Silent payments descriptors, Kernel updates, GUI discussions, and more
+
+## Misc
+
+* [BIP352 - Silent Payments](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki)
+  * [silentpayments.xyz - a less technical explainer](https://silentpayments.xyz/)
+  * [Cake Wallet adds silent payments in public beta](https://x.com/cakewallet/status/1791500775262437396)
+* [Mempool based fee estimation in Bitcoin Core](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/mempool-based-fee-estimation-on-bitcoin-core/703)
+* [Hedgehog](https://github.com/supertestnet/hedgehog)
+* [ark-cli live on liquid](https://github.com/ark-network/ark)
+  * [Covenant-less ark (clArk)](https://github.com/ark-network/clArk)
+
+<br/><br/>
+<small><i>We aim to finalize the agenda the week before the event. You can follow along with the work in progress agenda on our [github repository](https://github.com/bitdevsamsterdam/bitdevsamsterdam.github.io/issues/). Feel free to suggest topics you'd like to discuss on the github issue!</i></small>