Socratic Seminar 51
2024-09-19
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 August 27th to September 16th.
Chain Weather Report
News & Announcements
- Fractal Bitcoin launches with partial merge mining with Bitcoin
- Norwegian Bitcoin mine shuts down, leading to 20% higher electricity costs
- 10101 is shutting down
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- Block template similarities between mining pools
- Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review
- instagibbs shares take on scaling
- You probably don't need a hardware wallet
- Taproot Wizards share exploration of new fungible token protocol using OP_CAT
- New TMUL promitive unlocks more efficient ZK verification on Bitcoin
- Gloria shares a TRUC example transaction on testnet4 using Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1
- Ark v0.2
Lightning
- Lightning NodeNamer
- Lightning Data
- Kraken Germany removes Lightning support
- Strike enables paying BOLT12 offers
bitcoin-dev
- OP_CAT research fund
- Timewarp fix, Mining software and Clocks
- OP_ZKP updates
- BIP 8.5: flag day activation based on nlocktime signaling
Delving Bitcoin
- Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero-knowledge
- PPLNS with job declaration
- Mutation-core: a mutation testing tool for Bitcoin Core
- Lava Loans: trust-minimized, Bitcoin-secured loans
CVEs and Research
Research
- Optimizing Big Integer Multiplication on Bitcoin: Introducing w-windowed Approach
- Permissionless Verifiable Information Dispersal (Data Availability for Bitcoin Rollups)
Disclosures & Advisories
InfoSec
- YubiKey 5 vulnerability
- New AMD SinkClose flaw helps install nearly undetectable malware
- Intel SGX Fuse Key0 compromised
Pull Requests
Bitcoin Core
- Don't empty dbcache on prune flushes: >30% faster IBD
- build: Introduce CMake-based build system
- build: Remove Autotools-based build system
- net: Favor peers from addrman over fetching seednodes
- descriptors: Be able to specify change and receiving in a single descriptor string