Socratic Seminar 50
2024-08-26
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 July 28th to August 26th.
Chain Weather Report
News & Announcements
- University of Wyoming launches Bitcoin Research Institute
- Casa adds YubiKey blind signer support
- bitaxeGamma
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- STARK verification PoC on signet (using OP_CAT)
- Great Script Restoration Update
- CPUNet
- Ocean building their own miner-side template construction mechanism rather than using Stratum v2
bitcoin-dev
- Block withholding attacks and potential solutions
- Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures
- Bitcoin Core switch to CMake build system
Delving Bitcoin
- Zawy's alternating timestamp attack
- Cluster mempool: block buildng with sub chunk granularity
- Hyperion: a discrete time network event simulator for Bitcoin Core
- Stats on compact block reconstructions
- Optimistic ZK verification using MATT
- Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol