Socratic Seminar 61
2025-08-07
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 July 8th to August 4th.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 1m
- Version 3 transaction adoption is starting to take off, just 10 months after being standardized in Bitcoin Core v28.0
- peer-observer
- Compact Block reconstruction rates plummet
- Labitbus in taproot control blocks
- What Network Activity Says About Changing Face of Bitcoin Users
News & Announcements
- Verdict in Roman Storm Tornado Cash Case
- Samourai Wallet Developers Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business
- Frostsnap available for pre-order
Discussion
Tweets, Blogs & Podcasts
- Simplicity launches on Liquid mainnet
- BIP353 Bounty
- Augur: An Open Source Bitcoin Fee Estimation Library
bitcoin-dev
- A Taproot-native (re-)bindable transaction bundle proposal
- Taproot is post-quantum secure when restricted to script-path spends
Delving Bitcoin
- Post-Quantum HD-Wallets, Silent Payments, Key Aggregation, and Threshold Signatures
- compact block prefilling data collection
- Chain Code Delegation: Private Access Control for Bitcoin Keys
- A rust library to encode descriptors with a 30-40% size reduction
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
BIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- log: Mitigate disk filling attacks by rate limiting LogPrintf, LogInfo, LogWarning, LogError
- IBD: multi-byte block obfuscation
- wallet: Remove ISMINE_WATCHONLY and watchonly from RPCs
- cluster mempool: add TxGraph reorg functionality
- p2p: improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds
- Enable -natpmp by default