• A full set of transcripts from the 2016 Scaling Bitcoin Milan conference was rapidly published on diyhpl.us, covering SegWit lessons learned, Schnorr signatures, BIP-151 peer encryption, coin-selection algorithms, security/performance of proof-of-work blockchains, covenants, collective signing, fast difficulty adjustment, “jute braiding” (a Layer-2 construction), client-side validation, and “breaking the chain” off-chain techniques.

• The transcript links provide open, searchable primary sources for researchers tracking the technical evolution of Bitcoin scalability proposals and cryptographic innovations circa 2016.

• Lee Corbin, a long-time extropian and Alcor member, reportedly died in an apparent murder-suicide in Santa Clara; this is noted as the first such case involving an Alcor patient.

• Microsoft’s HoloLens is praised in a linked blog post (daeken.svbtle.com) as an unexpectedly successful consumer-grade augmented-reality platform, prompting surprise that Microsoft “got AR right.”

• A minor tooling note: kanzure points to a GitHub pull request (#7 on davidlazar/jotmuch) as an example of ongoing open-source bookmark-indexing work relevant to personal knowledge management.