Socratic Seminar 62
2025-09-04
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 August 5th to September 1st.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 1m
- MARA and ck-pool raise their minrelay back to 1 sat / vbyte
News & Announcements
- Block Unveils Proto Rig and Proto Fleet
- Bitmain Plans U.S. HQ and assembly line
- Roman Storm found guilty of unlicensed money transmission
Discussion
Tweets, Blogs & Podcasts
- Google removes and re-adds non-custodial wallets from Play Store EU policy
- Rustreexo resources
- A survey of bitcoin yield: What's the opportunity cost of Ark liquidity?
- Ziren: GPU-accelerated zero-knowledge infrastructure compiling conventional code into a verifiable MIPS-based execution environment
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Delving Simplicity Part Ⅰ: Three Fundamental Ways of Combining Computations
- Delving Simplicity Part II: Combinator Completeness of Simplicity
- Writing Simplicity Programs with SimplicityHL
- Confidential Script: Emulate soft forks using stateless TEEs
- Krux: KEF Encryption Format
- The state of bitcoinfuzz
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
BIPs
- BIP Proposal: Elliptic Curve Operations for Bitcoin Script
- BIP Proposal: OP_TWEAKADD
- BIP Proposal: Block template sharing
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- descriptors: MuSig2
- wallet, rpc: add anti-fee-sniping to send and sendall
- net, validation: don't punish peers for consensus-invalid txs
- Introduce per-txin sighash midstate cache for legacy/p2sh/segwitv0 scripts
- kernel: create monolithic kernel static library
- wallet, rpc: add v3 transaction creation and wallet support
- policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee
- Add bitcoin-{node,gui} to release binaries for IPC