Agenda:

5PM – 5:15PM – Meet & greet

5:15PM – 6:30PM – Discussion of recent bitcoin related news & developments

6:30PM – 7PM – Hangout & QA

Reminders:

No photos, videos, audio recording

Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it

You are welcome to bring outside food/drinks

Local Bitcoin News:

• Follow us on Nostr for updates

• Listen to the Rock Paper Bitcoin Podcast

• Read bitcoin books by Brian Connelly

• Local bitcoin map update

• Grover Jr Plumbing radio spot

• Alternate Harrisburg Area Bitcoin Meetup: Bitcoin in the Burg

General Bitcoin News:

• Ongoing: Sign the change.org petition! Pardon the Samurai Devs

• 2/18/26 - Heatmap of every mainnet transaction

• 2/20/26 - Dave Collum: Bitcoin has never been through a global liquidity crisis

• 2/25/26 - Jane Street price suppression conspiracy?

• 2/28/26 - Jan3 comparison of Weimar Republic prices

• 3/3/26 - FedACH outage

• 3/4/26 - Kraken Financial is granted a Federal Reserve Master Account

• 3/4/26 - Warsh is officially nominated for Fed Chair

• 3/5/26 - FBI arrests government contractor who stole $46 million in crypto

• 3/6/26 - Everyone thinks they are late

• 3/9/26 - Treasury report: Bitcoin and crypto privacy mixers are NOT unlawful

• 3/10/26 - Less than 1M bitcoin left to be mined

• 3/13/26 - There is a small building in Argentina with genesis block painted on it

• 3/14/26 - Bitcoin is resilient to submarine cable failures

• 3/17/26 - CFTC and SEC issues clarifying statement on bitcoin mining

• 3/18/26 - SEC Chair Paul Atkins issues statement on bitcoin mining rewards

• 3/18/26 - SEC issues guidance clarifying status of digital assets and bitcoin mining

• 3/18/26 - US passes $39T in debt

Notable Blocks Mined:

• 2/24/26 - Solo miner w/ $75 of rented hashpower mines block 938,092

• 2/28/26 - Parasite Pool mines block 938,713

Upcoming Local Bitcoin Events:

• Sunday March 22nd Bitcoin in the Burg @ Denim Coffee

• Thursday April 16th BitPlebs #6 @ The Residence Inn by Marriott

• Sunday April 26th Bitcoin in the Burg @ Denim Coffee

Trustworthy places to buy miners:

• Altair Tech

• Solo Satoshi

• MegaMiner

Want to contribute to our next event?

Onchain: bc1qd9kualxf3gvlf7t59us7t832kq88f7q2tg4qls

LN Address: businesscat@getalby.com