July 2023 Bitcoin Q&A and BitDevs Socratic Seminar

Hello all, the July, 2023 Seattle Bitcoin Q&A plus BitDevs Socratic Seminar will be held on **July 27 at the Phinney Center (Room 5)** on Phinney Ridge.

**Note the change of format this month!** We’ll start with bitcoin Q&A, bring your best questions, your worst questions, and all the other kinds. Then we’ll dig into more technical topics in the BitDevs Socratic Seminar.

Shout-out and thanks to [BitGo](https://www.bitgo.com/) for sponsoring the venue!!

**6:30 to 7:15** – Bitcoin Q&A
**7:15 to 9:15** – Socratic discussion
**9:XX to X:XX** – post-event socializing nearby

Socratic seminars are group discussions about a wide range of bitcoin-related topics. Pull requests, new papers, security vulnerabilities and other topics are discussed at Socratic seminars. [Read more about Socratic Seminars](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar)

Moderator: Brandon Black

[Tentative topics for the Socratic Seminar.](https://github.com/brandonblack/seattle_bitdevs/blob/master/202307.md)

Please send me topics or (even better) open a [PR or issue](https://github.com/brandonblack/seattle_bitdevs) with topic suggestions!

RULES:

1. This will be a Bitcoin (BTC) only event. We will only be discussing Bitcoin and auxiliary technologies related to the greatest accumulated work Bitcoin Blockchain and UTXO set, e.g. Lightning, Miniscript, Fedimints, Ark, Covenants, etc.
2. No video recording or photographs of the attendees or speakers.
3. Chatham House Rule applies.
“When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”

OTHER NOTES:

1. Join our [Telegram group](https://t.me/+7093S5JY1R4zODIx) for more discussion.