Socratic Seminar 63
2025-10-02
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 September 2nd to September 30th.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 1m
- Block Reconstruction rates go up
- stratum.work adds new "Events" panel
News & Announcements
Discussion
Tweets & misc
- Fresh rpi 5 IBD data
- Probability of peer tx acceptance based on peer count & policy adoption
- Transaction propagation simulation
- Mutinynet now running bitcoin-inquisition
- Casey announced ord 0.23.3 & ordinals satscards
Blogs
- Nunchuk supports generalized miniscript
- Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
- Misbehaving Nodes
- Localhost Research: Transparency Report 002
- OpenTimestamps and Knots/OCEAN
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Measuring minrelaytxfee across the network
- Eclipsing Bitcoin Nodes with BGP Interception Attacks
- BGP hardening countermeasures with ASPA
- Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction (Workbook)
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
BIPs
- BIP Proposal: Block template sharing
- BIP: Script Restoration First Draft
- BIP: Standard Encrypted Wallet Payload
- BIP: Standard Encryption Envelope (Password-Protected)
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- coins: warn on oversized -dbcache
- p2p: Increase tx relay rate
- wallet: Identify transactions spending 0-value outputs, and add tests for anchor outputs in a wallet