BRH-004: BitDevs Radio Hour #4 – Your 2025 Bitcoin Wrapped is Here

About this episode

Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin discuss recent Bitcoin developments and reflect on the year's themes in the final BitDevs Radio Hour of the year.

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin close out the year with a festive edition of the BitDevs Radio Hour. This episode covers a grab bag of fresh Bitcoin technical developments: new BIP assignments, a novel approach to private collaborative custody, a consensus discrepancy discovered via differential fuzzing, Lightning protocol optimization ideas, a serious React server components security vulnerability, and the debut of Bitcoin Wrapped 2025 . It's a year-end mix of hard engineering talk, cryptographic concepts, dev-ops war stories, and community reflections. Episode Summary Stephen and Alex recap the final Atlanta BitDevs meetup of the year and then dive deep into several new Bitcoin and developer-adjacent topics. The discussion includes new BIP numbers, privacy-preserving collaborative custody for multisig, a consensus mismatch uncovered in NBitcoin thanks to fuzzing, a fresh ZmnSCPxj proposal for Lightning efficiency via private key handovers, and a major security alert affecting React server components (and by extension, many Next.js deployments). The show closes with the premiere of the community-produced Bitcoin Wrapped 2025 — a Spotify-style…

People in this episode

Hosts: Stephen DeLorme, Alex Lewin

Topics covered

• Bitcoin technical developments
• BIP assignments
• private collaborative custody
• Lightning protocol optimization
• React security vulnerability
• community reflections
• year-end recap

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• BIP
• collaborative custody
• Lightning protocol
• React security
• fuzzing
• BitVM
• quantum
• regulatory pressure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ATL BitLab, NBitcoin, React, Next.js, ZmnSCPxj

Products: Bitcoin Wrapped 2025

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