Socratic Seminar 52
2024-10-29
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 September 17th to October 27th.
Chain Weather Report
News & Announcements
- D++ presents the Bitcorn Chat and Bitcorn Hole
- Localhost Research launches in the Bay Area
- Bitnomial announces US perpetual futures trading platform, Botanical
- Blockstream closed a $210M convertible note financing round led by Fulgur Ventures
- River introduces BTC yield on USD deposits
- Ocean launches DATUM
- Bitmain launches Antminer S21+
- Building Bitcoin: funding report
- 2140 - Supporting Bitcoin research and development
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- Coinbase supports P2TR
- DLC Markets launches on mainnet
- Spark from Lightspark
- Simplicity arrives on Liquid testnet
- SeedSigner "firmware" isn't want you think it is
- Broadcast Pool
bitcoin-dev
- Shielded CSV: Private and Efficient Client-Side Validation
- Draft of updated BIP process
- BIP: Sending Silent Payments in PSBTs
- BIP: DLEQ
Delving Bitcoin
CVEs and Research
Research
Disclosures & Advisories
- Disclosure of hindered block propagation due to mutated blocks in Core version < 25.0
- Disclosure of DoS due to inv-to-send sets growing too large in Core version < 25.0
- Disclosure of remotely crashing Bitcoin Core nodes by triggering an assertion in the blocktxn message handling logic in Core version < 25.0
- Disclosure of
FindAndDelete
bug in btcd version < 0.24.2
InfoSec
- PIXHELL Attack: Leaking Sensitive Information from Air-Gap Computers via ‘Singing Pixels’
- RAMBO: Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Covert Radio Signals from Computer RAM
- Covert Channels
Pull Requests
Bitcoin Core
- net: Replace libnatpmp with built-in PCP+NATPMP implementation
- multiprocess: Add IPC wrapper for Mining interface