• The channel discussed an upcoming “Rebooting the Web of Trust IX” event in Prague (Sept 2019) and began coordinating an informal meet-up among members for Wednesday evening, 4 September.

• A new transcript of Fabian Jahr’s Chaincode Labs talk on debugging techniques was added to the diyhpluswiki archive, along with updated links and speaker notes for Dan Boneh’s VDF Day 2019 presentation on verifiable-delay functions.

• Bryan Bishop and Joseph Jackson were featured in a TFTC21 podcast episode on transhumanism; tweets highlighted parallels between the Bitcoin and transhumanist communities regarding exponential technology, low time-preference, and voluntary human flourishing.

• The Hak5 Bash Bunny—a quad-core ARM USB stick with 512 MB RAM and 8 GB SSD—was noted as a powerful pocket computer whose marketing is currently limited to pentesters but could serve broader open-hardware or biohacking use cases.

• Historical bio-risk was raised when a member warned that 19th–early-20th-century microbiology texts may still harbor viable bacterial or fungal spores, illustrating long-term pathogen survival on paper.

• A brief debate on medical conservatism suggested the Hippocratic “do no harm” oath arose historically to protect early physicians from mob retaliation rather than to enforce modern bioethical standards.