Socratic Seminar 44
2024-01-29
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage, Bitrefill, and CardCoins.
- Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!
- Socratic Seminars are held under the Chatham House Rule: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.
- For the privacy of other attendees, please refrain from taking photographs of other people without their permission.
- Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused.
- The reading list covers November 25th to January 25th.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard v2.0
- Mempool
- Now with Mempool Goggles in the upper left corner of each block
- Fees
- Lightning Network Capacity
- River monthly routing stats
News & Announcements
- SEC approves spot Bitcoin ETFs
- Treasury and IRS: Taxpayers Do Not Have to Report $10K+ Bitcoin Transactions As Cash Until Further Regulations
- Human Rights Foundation Grants $500,000 To 18 Bitcoin Projects
- Swan mining launches with ~4.5 EH
- Reminder: BIPBounty.org is Open for Your BIPs
- [2023 Mining Reviews] State of the Network, ASIC Market, Mining Pools
- Economically Unspendable Bitcoin UTXOs
- BitVM transaction graph diagram
- CTV use case thread
- One-Shot Replace-by-Fee-Rate, problem
- OP_SEGMENT: Allowing Introspection to Check Partial Scripts
- Pay-to-Tapscript: Keyless Entry For Better Future Scripting
- Transaction Stacking for Covenant Fee Minimization
Mailing list & Delving Bitcoin
bitcoin-dev
- Addressing the possibility of profitable fee manipulation attacks
- BIP: output descriptors for PSBT
- Lamport scheme (not signature) to economize on L1
- Kerckhoffian protocol for coercion-resistance in non-shared custody
- Swift Activation - CTV
- Introducing a version field to BIP39 mnemonic phrases
- BitBlend Proposal for 2106
- BIP process friction
- One-Shot Replace-By-Fee-Rate
- Update to Compressed Bitcoin Transactions
- Update to MuSig2 derivation, descriptor, and PSBT field BIPs
Delving Bitcoin
- CPU usage of peers
- Games in the head (and fraud proofs for the plebs)
- OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACKVERIFY ECDSA useful?
- Stratum v2 Noise Protocol: BIP324 nuggets?
- Deploying new taproot leaf versions
- 64 bit arithmetic soft fork
- An overview of the cluster mempool proposal
- Package aware Fee estimator post cluster mempool
- How to linearize your cluster
- Emulating curve point scalar multiplication with OP_CAT
- On consensus changes in bitcoin 2024
- Unspendable keys in descriptors
- Warnet + Increase Tx Relay Rate
CVEs and Research
Research
- Bitcoin Clique: Channel-free Off-chain Payments using Two-Shot Adaptor Signatures
- EROR: Efficient Repliable Onion Routing with Strong Provable Privacy
- FlexHi: A Flexible Hierarchical Threshold
- Self-Balancing Semi-Hierarchical PCNs for CBDCs
- Statistical and clustering analysis of attributes of Bitcoin backbone nodes
InfoSec
- Denial-of-service bugs in LND’s channel update gossip handling
- Disclosure: Btcd consensus bugs due to usage of signed transaction version
- Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
- Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!
- Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges
- Kroll reveals FTX customer info exposed in August data breach
- Ledger Connect Kit Exploit
- LNBank Vulnerability, prior hack
- Playing with Fire – How We Executed a Critical Supply Chain Attack on PyTorch