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Bitshala BOSS (Bitcoin Open Source Software) Summit 2026

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Bitcoin over radio waves, LN to UPI, Coinswap with sexy UX, Lightning over HTTP 402, decentralizing bitcoin mining. That was Bitshala BOSS (Bitcoin Open Source Software) Summit 2026.

Huge shoutout to Raj, Saurabh, Anmol, Paper and team for making this magic happen.

To read about previous conferences / meetups:

As you can see, I usually write a blog post pouring in all my excitement, take aways after each meetup/conference. But this time, something is different, waayy different.

After the startup pitch day on Sunday, I thought the Student of Bitcoin, Santhosh’s vision and the 9 teams deserves it’s own post (which is coming soon). So 2 posts after this Summit.

And then we went on Triund trek organized by Bala. It got it’s own memories, experiences, food, (pain,) and photos. So Triund is getting it’s own post (coming soon). 3 posts (/more work), based on this BOSS summit.

Here we gooo…

Day 0 / Apr 1 (Wed):

Summit officially starts on Apr 1. I shifted my home/city just last week and I had to settle up things in new home, before I could come here. So I thought I will skip day 1 and booked my flight on Apr 1.

Then once we got the schedule, I was happy. Apr 1 is just for Orientation, fun, games. No serious, tech stuffs happening.

I landed on Chandigraph by 7pm. My bus to Dharamshala was only on 11pm from Tribune chowk, which is like ~8 kms away. With 4 hours to spare, I decided to walk to Tribune Chowk.

Welcome to the land of gurus, saints, and martyrs

Just after coming out the airport, I read this “Welcome to the land of gurus, saints, and martyrs“.

Some words hits deep, touches your soul. Those words did that to me. I felt like walking in some divine land. My mind goes like… I am going to BOSS summit. And I see these words after landing. This feel that I am getting. What it could mean? Am I right on this path? (and dont ask me WTF the path is, even idk)

But then my pragmatic mind stops me from doing this. Don’t imagine things. We are all just stardusts. There is no purpose, there is no path. You are going to die in next 30 years. That’s a fact. Dont hallucinate!

For any sane reader, may it feels like I am hallucinating. FYI. You are right. I am 100% mental.

I reached Tribune chowk an hour before, boarded the bus at 11pm sharp. And as always I slept once the bus started moving.

Day 1 / Apr 2 (Thu):

I reached Dharamshala sharp at 5am. Again I have huge time in hand. Altspace, Summit venue is 7.1kms from here. So another nice walk but through the mountains now. By 6.50am I reached the spot. Had great view along the way.

My first sight of snow, in my life!

Some interesting sessions on Day 1…

1. Most Cypherpunk-y demo: Offline bitcoin transactions with Meshtastic by Bala

Bitcoin grew out of the Internet, but has now become more resilient than the Internet. Bala did some dark magic and transferred a bitcoin tx from a offline system to a internet connected system via radio waves and got it broadcasted. This demo broke the Bitcoin twitter. More at

2. LN <> UPI Routing by Vikas

Pay your vendors in sats and they get the fiat. And thank Vikas for making this happen. While most are still debating Bitcoin as store of value, this pushes it directly into everyday payments.

Bridging fiat and Bitcoin without friction is how you break dependency, slowly but surely.

After the sessions, me, Thesvn, Dinesh and Abhijay went for a walk. We had some spicy noodles. The conversation drifted across travel, fitness, and life decisions, the kind that only happen on long walks.

Other notable sessions included:

  1. Communication for bitcoin ecosystem by Santosh
  2. Vibe coding 101 by Anmol & Vaibhav
  3. Shroud demo by Shroud team
  4. Epoch Shield with Sameer
Day 1

Day 2 / Apr 3 (Fri):

Myself, Amol, Bala and Ashwin had a amazing morning walk. Through the beautiful himalayas paddy fields with the gorgeous mountains on the back. Some images:

And then we have back to the sessions:

1. Coinswap

Coinswap has matured significantly, now hiding complex privacy-preserving flows behind a clean UI. Kudos to the team. Privacy is not a feature. It’s a requirement. Tools like this make that practical.

We had a hands-on demo of coinswap in Signet with 10 people/hops.

2. Monetizing L402s with Thesvn

L402 is something that I am following since it’s launch. Fixing payments on the internet was unfinished business for few decades. Bitcoin is quietly finishing it.

And surprisingly my room mate, Thesvn is working on integrating L402 to Nginx. Great work. More @

Paco (our Bitcoin runner) arrives at the scene. Santosh, Bala and Paco picked me (the wrong guy) for the pitch demo and feedback. I loved their story, the team and the product but there are some minor flaws in the business model that I could spot. Glad I could be of help.

Other notable sessions included:

  1. Spark L2 by Basanta
  2. Braidpool: P2P mining pool with support for hashrate futures by Braidpool team.
  3. P2Pool V2 by R27
  4. Fedimint Talk by Om Swami

Day 3 / Apr 4 (Sat):

Today morning, more people joined in for the morning walk. Bala, Vikas, Amol, Sameer, Ashwin and myself. We had a long walk through the beautiful mountains. We reached that bridge with the stream below. Managed to get near the water and dip our feet in the super cold himalayan water. Then we had our Coffee and caught up in the rains while returning. Thanks to Ashwin for taking us through a short cut and cutting down the return time.

Based on my yesterday’s session with Paco, where I spotted a few gaps in the business model. That interaction made me think about something bigger. I did a short PPT that emphasize the teams to consume YC content 100% in and out. The recommendation is

  1. to abosorb all the content, thought process, philosophy from “How to start a startup” YC’s video series and
  2. to signup at startupschool.

By noon, again a long walk with walk to Alchemy restaurant with Thesvn, Ashwin, Dinesh, Abhijay and Stark. We had some local cuisines from there with perfect jamun/ice cream ending. Moreover, the view from the restaurant was a beautiful one. It was built just next to the stream.

Obviously after the lunch, we went into the river for a nice walk and experience. Me and Ashwin crossed the river and walked along to reach the road. After reaching Altspace, i thought of taking a small 1 hour nap. It turned out to be 4 hours of deep sleep. The mix of late nights, weather, and constant movement finally caught up and this long sleep fixed it.

At night, deep talk about life, passion, bitcoin, career, etc., with my room mate, Thesvn.

Day 4 / Apr 5 (Sun):

Day 4 felt less intense technically, but more reflective.”

Today’s sessions:

1. Design literacy for bitcoin developers by Paper and Veronica

Other notable sessions included:

  1. Intro to OpenPleb by Veronica
  2. BTCPay Server Deep dive by Abhijay

The most awaited “Student of Bitcoin” pitch content happened in the noon. This will get it’s own post. If even a fraction of these ideas ship, the impact will be massive.

With this, we get to the end of BOSS summit. Evening we spent having good food, chit chat, shared each other’s orange pilling journeys, our next big plan to make a dent in the world, etc.,

Closure

In last one year, I guess the number of projects being developed in Bitshala has exploded with so many young people got involved. I am very happy and excited to see such a strong influx of young talent in our Bitcoin space.

Bitshala is not just organizing summits. It is quietly building a generation of Bitcoiners who understand why this matters. No noise, no shortcuts, just relentless focus on learning and building. If this momentum continues, the impact will be far bigger than any conference or headline.

The Bitcoin builders of India


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