🎉 Mastering Lightning Network Cohort Season 4 has graduated!

Congratulations to everyone who completed the cohort and put in the work to deepen their understanding of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. 🔐

Applications are now open for three upcoming cohorts:

1️⃣ Mastering Lightning Network – Season 5
2️⃣ Mastering Bitcoin – Season 8
3️⃣ Building Bitcoin in Rust – Season 2

Apply now: https://app.bitshala.org

Learn more: https://bitshala.org/cohorts/

At our Vadodara meetup, we went deep into Bitcoin’s 21 million supply limit, Proof of Work, difficulty adjustment, and how full nodes independently enforce the rules.

We also talked about what’s coming up in Jaipur: BOSS Summit Winter 2026 and @thebitmela. A few folks even grabbed their last-minute tickets right there!

If you've been thinking about joining us, consider this your last reminder.

🛠️ BOSS Summit | 27–29 October
🎟️ https://luma.com/bitshalaboss

🟠 Bitmela | 30–31 October | Jaipur
🎟️ https://thebitmela.com/#tickets

To everyone who joined us in Vadodara, thank you for making these conversations possible and to everyone still deciding, we'd love to see you in Jaipur next week!

Last call to join the next generation of Bitcoin developers 🚀

The Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) Cohort - Season 3 has officially kicked off, but it’s not too late to catch up. We are still accepting registrations as we head into Week 1. If you are ready to move beyond the basics and dive deep into the core mechanics of the Bitcoin protocol, now is the time to jump in.

🗓️ TODAY - Week 1 Session: Friday, 23rd October 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
📍 BPD Cohort voice channels in Bitshala Discord

This 6-week intensive program is built around the renowned Chaincode Labs curriculum. You won’t just be reading; you’ll be solving coding challenges and tackling technical assignments that simulate real-world protocol development.

📌 Apply here: https://app.bitshala.org/

📖 Reading material: https://app.bitshala.org/bpd-instructions

Don't miss the window to level up your Bitcoin engineering skills. Let’s build the future of decentralized finance together ⚡🔐

Want to learn Rust? Learn it by building something real.

Building Bitcoin in Rust (BR) Season 2 is now open for registration: an 11-week, hands-on cohort based on Braiins' Building Bitcoin in Rust by Lukáš Hozda.

Instead of isolated exercises, you'll learn Rust in the context of a real system, Bitcoin. That covers ownership, traits and testing, then mining, async networking, node design and wallet construction.

What you'll take away:
• Rust fundamentals with real context
• Domain modeling for Bitcoin
• Production-style engineering habits
• Concurrency and async skills
• An end-to-end Bitcoin builder path

Who it's for: developers who know at least one programming language and want to learn Rust through practical building.

🗓️ Starts 10 Nov 2026 · Tuesdays, 8:00 PM IST (2:30 PM UTC)
🎓 Proof-of-Work certificate on completion

📌 Apply now: https://app.bitshala.org/

📖 Reading material: https://app.bitshala.org/bbr-instructions

After applying, check your email to join the Discord.

BOSS Battle 2026 brought builders together across three tracks & each winning team now has received the reward of $1,000 USD-equivalent in Bitcoin.

🏆 Cypherpunk: Haystack / Yogesh
🏆 Machine Money: Infernuous / Team Nigeria
🏆 Freedom Stack: EcashMesh / Ayush

The payouts are complete & the transaction is verifiable on-chain: https://mempool.space/tx/baa61253bec6a8c7ca6c5dadbe7638d4a1772896a2d1b421c186e247a308160c

What defines a Bitcoin powerhouse before it becomes a household name?

Join us today (21-Oct-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for TradFi & Bitcoin Club

After studying 50 companies, from miners and lenders to custodians, we're wrapping up our Early Riders Top 50 series today with:
🔹Onramp
🔹 River
🔹Strike
🔹Lightspark
🔹Arch

And try to understand what patterns actually separate successful Bitcoin businesses from the rest?

Join us in lounge of Bitshala discord server: https://discord.com/invite/STeQFVEWf9

BOSS Summit Winter 2026 schedule is officially LIVE 🗓️⚡️

We’re heading to Jaipur for a week of deep dives, building, and Bitcoin evolution.

🗓️The Schedule:
Oct 26: Check-in (from 11:00 AM) & Community Kickoff
Oct 27: AI, Dev Tooling & Bitcoin Core
Oct 28: Post-Quantum Crypto & Self-Custody UX
Oct 29: Lightning, Ecash & Decentralized Web
Oct 30–31: Bitmela

It’s going to be an intensive week of learning and collaboration.

🚨 Limited Capacity Update

We’ve managed to make room for 10 additional people to join the BOSS sessions.

If you are a developer, FOSS contributor, or Bitcoin builder looking for your tribe, this is for you. 🛠️🧡

For ₹2,499, you get: ✅ Full access to 3 days of sessions ✅ Daily lunch & evening snacks ✅ Direct networking with top builders

➡️ Secure your spot: luma.com/bitshalaboss

BOSS Summit will be followed by two days at thebitmela.

➡️ Buy Bitmela Tickets here: http://thebitmela.com

Use code 'BITSHALA21' for 15% discount.

Are you sure your Bitcoin private keys are truly safe from a signature-based attack?

Join us today (19-Oct-2026) at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC for Latest in Bitcoin Tech

We will be breaking down the evolution of node communication and critical security vulnerabilities, covering:
🔹ECDSA Fundamentals: An overview of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm.
🔹The Role of the Nonce: Why the value k is the most sensitive part of a signature.
🔹The Dark Skippy Attack: How a malicious signer can exfiltrate your seed phrase through seemingly normal signatures.
🔹BIP 461: Exploring the new standard for verifiable signing to protect your assets against these sophisticated attacks.

📍 8 PM IST only on Discord: http://discord.com/invite/STeQFVEWf9✨

Just a day after ClaudeAI brought attention to the origins of NIST’s elliptic curve parameters, we gathered in Pune to explore the mathematics that helps secure Bitcoin.

We spent time understanding secp256k1, ECDSA, and Schnorr signatures. We also looked ahead at quantum computing and what it could mean for Bitcoin’s cryptographic future.

These conversations matter because security is never something we should accept blindly. We should understand how it works, question its assumptions, and stay curious about what comes next.

That’s what we want Bitshala to be about. People coming together to learn, ask difficult questions, and understand Bitcoin a little more deeply than they did before.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Deccan, Pune on 17-Oct-2026, and made the session what it was. The best part of learning is that there’s always more to discover. 🟠

Today (17-Oct-2026) in Chandigarh, just one person showed up for our Bitcoin meetup. We sat down, had a conversation, and started with a simple question: What is money?

We went deep into how to build a solid foundation, exchanged some read's like The Internet of Money and Broken Money to understand further.

Every conversation counts when it comes to orange-pilling the world 📚🚀

An incredible evening of hands-on learning in Chennai (17-Oct-2026). We took a deep dive into the inner workings of Bitcoin with a session at Bitcoin: Watch It Work.

From the moment you hit 'send' to final confirmation, we explored it all:

🔹Transaction structures & the Mempool
🔹Understanding fee rates
🔹Hands-on RBF & CPFP on Testnet using @SparrowWallet
🔹Leveraging @mempool features to visualize the network

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us to watch Bitcoin work in real time ⚡️

Bitcoin Protocol Development (BPD) Cohort - Season 3 starts today🟠

A 6‑week immersive cohort to give in-depth dive into the Bitcoin protocol

Built around Bitcoin Protocol Development by Chaincode Labs, you’ll be doing Coding Challenges along with weekly Question Assignments 🔐🌐

⚡Who’s it for? If you’ve already explored Bitcoin’s technicalities and want to level up, this cohort is for you.

📌 Apply here: https://app.bitshala.org/

📖 Reading material: https://app.bitshala.org/bpd-instructions

Everyone is invited to join the orientation session today at 8:00 PM IST ⁠and decide if the cohort is right for you.

📍 8 PM on Bitshala Discord: http://discord.com/invite/STeQFVEWf9