Socratic Seminar 47
2024-04-29
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage, Bitrefill, and Bitnomial.
- 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 March 22nd to April 29th.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 3m
- Block Rewards 1m
- Lightning Network World Map
News & Announcements
- ViaBTC mines the halving block - Block reward 40.71 BTC
- 47% of hashrate block templates often the same
- Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses
- Case against Bitcoin Developers Dropped
- DTCC on Collateral for Bitcoin ETFs
- Runes launch
- Testnet Griefing
- Cashu Live Tests
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- How Does Coin Grinder Find the min input weight?
- Core Doesn't Store UTXO Set in Memory
- Stop Calling It MEV
- The Spectre of MEV on Bitcoin
bitcoin-dev
- Adding new BIP editors
- BitMEX Research - Assigning BIP Numbers
- Bryan “Kanzure” Bishop, Jon Atack, Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Olaoluwa “Roasbeef” Osuntokun, and Ruben Somsen
- BIP2
- Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
Delving Bitcoin
- Exploding Keys - Covenant construction
- Second Look at Weak Blocks
- Research into the effects of a cluster size limited mempool in 2023
- DSL for Contracts
CVEs and Research
Research
- Arctic: Lightweight and Stateless Threshold Schnorr Signatures
- BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin
- Insecurity of MuSig and BN Multi-Signatures with Delayed Message Selection