Socratic Seminar 56
2025-03-06
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Presidio Bitcoin, Pubkey, 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 February 4th to March 2nd.
Chain Weather Report
News & Announcements
- Tether Brings USDt to Taproot Assets
- Tropic Square launches TROPIC01 with samples
- Trump confirms plans for strategic 'Crypto' reserve with Bitcoin and altcoins
- Lawmakers in El Salvador rush new bitcoin reform after IMF deal
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
- Jonas' Bitcoin Core retro
- Bitkey inheritance feature launches
- The Risks of Expressive Smart Contracts: Lessons from the Latest Ethereum Hack
- Super Testnet: How Coinpools Improve Bitcoin
- UTXOracle is updated
- Custodial Solutions Are Not Solutions
- MEVPool
bitcoin-dev
- Call for reconfiguration of nodes to relay transactions with fee-rates below 1 sat/vbyte
- Update on the Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
- Update on Transaction Relay V2
Delving Bitcoin
- AJ's Bitcoin Forking Guide
- Discovery of previous research for finding optimal cluster linearization
- Erlay: Overview and current approach
- Emulating OP_RAND
- MultisigBackup.com: Backup and recover a k-of-n descriptor using only n seeds
CVEs and Research
Research
- N/A
InfoSec
- Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data and $485,000 in Bitcoin
- Private key extraction in ECDSA upon signing a malformed input (e.g. a string)
- Apple pulls data protection feature in UK amid government demands
BIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- Safegcd-based modular inverses in MuHash3072
- tracing: network connection tracepoints
- contrib: add tool to convert compact-serialized UTXO set to SQLite database
- Fix -norpcwhitelist, -norpcallowip, and similar corner case behavior
- mining: bugfix: Fix duplicate coinbase tx weight reservation
- rpc: have getblocktemplate mintime account for timewarp
rust-bitcoin
- Make Debug representation of Witness to be slice of hex-encoded bytes strings to improve readability
- Implement Default for Script
- primitives: Add tests to LockTime
- Validate compressed WIF keys
- primitives: store transaction::Version as u32 instead of i32
- Add a tagged hash engine
- Add symmetrical fee calculation method to Weight