Come join The Flagging Bowl: A BIP-110 Watch Party at Black Iris Gallery on Saturday, August 8. Bitcoin meetup + block-height countdown + partially serious revolutionary theater.
Main Event
We’ll be gathering to watch the approach of BIP-110 flagging height 961,632.
According to the all-mighty ChatGPT, the sacred block should arrive around:
1:28 PM ET
Naturally, Bitcoin will do what Bitcoin does, so this time is either highly precise, completely wrong, or spiritually correct.
Event Outline
12:00 PM — Doors open beers pleb roll call
Settle in, grab a drink, talk nodes, miners, spam, soft forks, and why your family still thinks Bitcoin is fake internet money.
1:00 PM — Countdown to height 961,632
Live block-height watching begins.
Mempool.space, node dashboards, OCEAN, Knots, Bitaxe, and whatever other screens we can get running without breaking anything.
~1:28 PM — The All-Mighty ChatGPT Prophecy Window
Expected flagging height arrival, according to our totally infallible AI oracle.
If the block hits on time: we celebrate.
If it’s late: we blame fiat time.
If it’s early: Bitcoin fixes clocks too.
After block 961,632 — Chaos, consensus, or comedy
We’ll watch what happens next and talk through the range of possible outcomes:
– Smooth signaling
– Confusion
– Miner drama
– Node operator victory laps
– X/Twitter meltdowns
– Absolutely nothing noticeable
– Or Bitcoin calmly continuing to produce blocks while everyone overreacts
*Event start time subject to change as the difficulty adjustment plays out.
Saturday, August 8, 2026
🕔 Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
📍 Black Iris Gallery
321 W Broad St · Richmond , VA
✨ RVA Bitcoin Network is a group of Bitcoiners in Richmond, Virginia focused on all things Bitcoin and the rapidly growing layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network (LN). All experience levels welcome — whether you’re new and curious, or have been stacking sats since 2009.