BRH-011: BitDevs Radio Hour #11 – Wuille's Quantum Paradox, Bitcoin Core GUI Must Die, SIGBASH Covenant Emulation, Agents Buying Compute

About this episode

The episode covers significant Bitcoin developments, including consensus cleanup, Lightning breakthroughs, and the agent economy explosion.

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin celebrate Valentine's Day on air with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Inquisition's consensus cleanup activation, BIP-110's ongoing controversy with new concerns from Liana Wallet about vault users unable to upgrade in two weeks, and the freshly merged quantum-resistance proposals BIP-360 and BIP-361. The conversation shifts to Lightning breakthroughs: Voltage settles the first publicly reported $1 million Lightning transaction between Kraken and SD Markets in 0.47 seconds, challenging the "Lightning is only for micropayments" narrative. Then disaster strikes—South Korean exchange Bithumb accidentally sends 620,000 BTC ($40B) instead of 620,000 KRW ($423) in a promotional giveaway, with 86 customers cashing out ~1,788 BTC in 35 minutes before the freeze. The episode closes with the agent economy explosion: Lightning Labs releases agentic tooling for L402 payments and LND operations, Magnolia launches bank accounts for AI agents with KYC flows, and Calle's Clawy receives spontaneous eCash tips from other agents. Matt Corallo issues a rallying cry: "You don't need to know anything…

People in this episode

Hosts: Stephen DeLorme, Alex Lewin

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• Lightning Network
• quantum resistance
• cryptocurrency exchanges
• agent economy
• BIP proposals

Keywords

• Bitcoin Inquisition
• BIP-110
• Lightning transaction
• Bithumb
• quantum resistance
• agent economy
• cryptocurrency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin Inquisition, Voltage, Kraken, SD Markets, Bithumb, Lightning Labs, Calle

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