# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (May 8, 2016)

* A discussion about Bitcoin's libconsensus (also called libbitcoinconsensus) focused on the challenges of separating consensus-critical code from other components in Bitcoin Core, with kanzure explaining that the current codebase suffers from tight coupling between consensus rules and unrelated components like Qt.

* Maaku clarified that block validation is the only role of libbitcoinconsensus, distinguishing it from other components like mempool policy which are not considered consensus-critical.

* Chris_99 shared a link to Bitchess (http://bitchess.co/), questioning whether the top players on the platform were bots.

* FourFire mentioned discovering OpenPsych (http://openpsych.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=5), a platform with a bot that automates part of the peer review process to sort low-quality submissions from scientific ones.

* Jrayhawk shared medfraud.info, describing it as "an interesting story of politics coming out ahead of epistemology" in what appears to be a critique of how medical information is evaluated.

* The conversation included brief mentions of decentralized web technologies and a request for UI/UX expertise for an unnamed project that may involve both biotech and Bitcoin-related components.