Socratic Seminar 48
2024-06-25
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 April 29th to June 22nd.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 3m
- Block Rewards 1m
- Lightning Network World Map
- Empty Block Report
- OKX massive fee overpayment during consolidation
- Odd Stale Block/Spy Mining Behaviors - 845869, 848860, 848477
News & Announcements
- Robinhood to acquire Bitstamp
- Bitfarms adopts 'poison pill' to fend off Riot takeover attempt after rejecting $950MM acquisition offer
- Braiins announces BMM 100 mini miner
- Choose-your-own coordinator with new Wasabi release
Discussion
Silent Payments
- BIP-352 (Silent Payments) merged
- BIP-352 PSBT support
- Silent Payments: Light client protocol
- Silent Payments educational site
- Silentium: Proof of concept for silent payments light wallet
- Cake Wallet adds silent payment support
Tweets & Blogs
- Many large pools using the same templates
- Mutiny announces Harbor ecash wallet (Github repo)
- DLCs with ecash notes
- Ark v2
- Introducing Brollups
bitcoin-dev
- Utreexod beta release
- Signing a Bitcoin Transaction with Lamport Signatures
- BIP-119.2: Extensions for Lightning Symmetry
Delving Bitcoin
- Anonymous usage tokens from curve trees or autct
- Ecash TIDES using Cashu and Stratum v2
- BIP-324 Proxy for light clients PoC
- Proof-of-work based signet faucet
- FE'd Up Covenants
CVEs and Research
Research
InfoSec
Releases
- Bitcoin Core 27.1
- Libre Relay v27.1 released with lower 1.25x replacement threshold
- libsdcp256k1 v0.5.0
- SRI v1.0.1
- bitcoinj v0.16.3