🚀 Bitcoin Builders Meetup -- Protocol Evolution & Technical Deep Dive
🚀 Bitcoin Builders Meetup
Protocol Evolution & Technical Deep Dive
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Date: Monday, December 22
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Bitcoin is entering a new phase of protocol evolution.
This meetup is strictly technical—designed for developers who want to move beyond narratives and gain a deep understanding of the engineering decisions shaping Bitcoin’s next decade.
This is not a trading meetup.
This is not a hype session.
This is a builder-focused, protocol-first discussion.
🎙️ Featured Speakers & Topics
We are honored to host three speakers offering complementary perspectives on Bitcoin’s engineering, development process, and long-term evolution.
Murch (Mark Erhardt)
Bitcoin Core Contributor • BIP Editor • Co-founder, Localhost Research
Topic: Bitcoin Core Onboarding
How developers can contribute meaningfully
Understanding the Bitcoin Core PR and review process
Reading and interpreting BIPs
Working with the bitcoin-dev mailing list
Aaron Zhang
Chaincode Labs BOSS Challenge Partner · Author of *Mastering Taproot*
Topic: Bitcoin’s Technical Evolution — From Early Design to the Post-Taproot Era
From UTXO design philosophy to Taproot:
Why Bitcoin’s original constraints matter
How design trade-offs shaped protocol evolution
What Taproot changed—and what it deliberately did not
How today’s development builds on those foundations
Chandler Guo
Bitcoin OG · Long-term Bitcoin holder and early evangelist
Topic: Key Moments in Bitcoin’s History — A Builder’s Perspective
Reflections on:
Major historical inflection points
How technical evolution influenced long-term conviction
What it means to believe in Bitcoin as a system, not a cycle
🛠️ Why Revisit Bitcoin Technical Research Now?
Bitcoin is not stagnant.
It is entering its most active technical phase in over a decade—one that will influence:
Global settlement infrastructure
Security budget design
Long-term engineering standards
This meetup is for technical participants, not spectators.
Real opportunity belongs to those who understand:
Bitcoin Core (protocol vs. policy)
How real transactions and scripts work
The post-Taproot technical ecosystem beneath the surface
💻 Focus on Engineering: A 10-Year Technical View
We focus on engineering reality, not opinions or price narratives.
1) Mapping the technical landscape
From:
SegWit → Taproot
Covenants
BitVM / RGB
Emerging Layer-2 systems
2) Understanding Bitcoin Core development
How PRs evolve
How consensus differs from policy
How BIPs are debated and refined
How engineering decisions are actually made
3) Learning to access first-hand technical signals
Directly from:
Bitcoin Core PRs
BIP discussions
Bitcoin-dev mailing list
Reproducible, verifiable engineering work
This meetup aims to help more developers become contributors, not observers.
📝 Participation Requirements
This meetup is intended for:
Engineers
Developers
Researchers
Bitcoin Core learners
Participants with technical backgrounds
Registration approval is required.
Applicants may be asked to provide:
GitHub profile
Technical background
Bitcoin / cryptography experience
Motivation for attending
🤝 Acknowledgements & Support
This meetup is organized by GPTDAO and BitcoinCoreCN.
We would like to thank Dr. Sunny Han(@SunnyFengHan) for his support of this event.
Dr. Sunny Han is an independent researcher affiliated with Harvard University, a corresponding member of the U.S. National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, and a co-founder of ELA.
We would also like to extend our gratitude to Puffer Finance (puffer.fi) for supporting this event — Puffer Finance builds Ethereum infrastructure, including next-generation rollups and AVS-based preconfirmation powered by liquid restaking. Supported by the Ethereum Foundation and backed by Coinbase, Binance, Franklin Templeton, and Fidelity.