Socratic Seminar 59
2025-06-05
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 April 29th to June 1st.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- UTXO Set Consolidation
- Mining Centralization Index (with proxy pools)
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 1m
- First use of taproot annex
News & Announcements
- Block’s bitcoin checkout goes live in Vegas, a significant step in making it ‘everyday money’
- Block to roll out bitcoin payments on Square
- Steak ‘n Shake Now Accepting Bitcoin via Lightning Network Across U.S. Locations
- Spark Partners with Breez to Launch Bitcoin-Native SDK for Lightning Payments
- stratum.work adds historical visualizations
Discussion
Tweets, Blogs & Podcasts
- Simplicity support signaling on Liquid mainnet now possible for functionaries
- Parasite Pool
- Cake Wallet adds payjoin v2 support
- JoinMarket Fidelity Bond Simulator
- BitMEX research: The 2015 Spam Attacks
- BitMEX research: Removing Bitcoin’s Guardrails
bitcoin-dev
- Removing checkpoints in Bitcoin Core v30
- The Tragic Tale of BIP30
- Post-Quantum commit / reveal Fawkescoin variant as a soft fork
- Introducing Hourglass
- Graftleaf: Program Composition and Generic Delegation
Delving Bitcoin
- Cluster mempool linearization benchmarking
- Avoiding xpub+derivation reuse across wallets, in a UX-friendly manner
- A simple approach to allowing recursive covenants by enabling quines
- Dust Expiry: Clean the UTXO set from spam
- On the possibility of evil covenants and implications for soft fork proposals
- SwiftSync
CVEs and Research
Research
- Bitcoin and Quantum Computing: Current Status and Future Directions
- Clementine: A Collateral-Efficient, Trust-Minimized, and Scalable Bitcoin Bridge
- Enforcing arbitrary constraints on Bitcoin transactions
- KeyJoin: Privacy-Focused CoinJoin Protocol for Bitcoin
- Moneros Decentralized P2P Exchanges: Functionality, Adoption, and Privacy Risks
- TOOP: A transfer of ownership protocol over Bitcoin
InfoSec
- CVE-2024-52919 - Remote crash due to addr message spam (part 2)
- rust-miniscript CVE-2025-43707: out-of-bounds read
- Coinbase Data Breach effects 70,000 customers
- NBitcoin fails to process coinbase transaction