- A Stanford professor is reportedly seeking CFTC approval to launch a regulated space-commodities futures exchange, and channel participants began strategizing contacts that could help advance the project.  
- A Medium post titled “LEO Catchers as a Launch Assist System” was circulated, prompting discussion of momentum-exchange tethers, reusable first-stage concepts (e.g., a larger SpaceShipOne), and the engineering hurdles of hypervelocity landing tracks versus orbital tethers.  
- Participants debated the practicality of equatorial orbits for tether systems, noting launch-site constraints, debris-collision volumes, reboost requirements, and structural instabilities such as tidal-stress crumpling.  
- Research on trehalose transport was highlighted: the insect-derived Tret1 transporter was shown to confer high-capacity trehalose uptake in mouse, CHO, and human hepatoma cell lines without loss of viability, while mammalian GLUT8 (SLC2A8) was identified as an endogenous trehalose transporter linked to autophagy induction.  
- Links to the referenced papers:  
  – Trehalose transporter 1 in mammalian cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1905927/  
  – GLUT8 as mammalian trehalose transporter: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38586  
- A request circulated for several terahashes of Bitcoin mining capacity for controlled-pool testing; NiceHash was ruled out owing to recent software incompatibilities, and a local contact (“lightsword”) was suggested as a potential supplier.  
- Throughout the day, Bryan Bishop committed multiple transcript summaries from the Tel Aviv 2019 Scaling Bitcoin EdgeDev++ sessions to the diyhplus wiki, covering topics including Bitcoin data structures, wallet architecture, debugging Bitcoin Core, privacy concepts, rebroadcasting, accumulators, and the new Signet test network; slide decks and Twitter references were added for several talks.