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
- Mutinynet not running bitcoin-inquisition\
- Casey announced ord 0.23.3 & ordinals satscards
- Canadian police seize funds, announce via OP_RETURN
Blogs
- Nunchuk supports generalized miniscript
- Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
- It's Knot a Serious Project
- Misbehaving Nodes
- Localhost Research: Transparency Report 002
- OpenTimestamps and Knots/OCEAN
bitcoin-dev
- [FROST CLI + BDK CLI Demo]https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/IwOY6IanJyY()
Delving Bitcoin
- Measuring minrelaytxfee across the network
- Eclipsing Bitcoin Nodes with BGP Interception Attacks
- Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction (Workbook)
- [Proposal] Guardian Address + GASPv1
- Stealth addresses using nostr
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
- npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack
- signet: disk-space-DoS due to low mining difficulty
- A Vulnerability on Bitcoin Protocols Using One-Time Signatures
- Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr
Research
- BitPriv: A Privacy-Preserving Protocol for DeFi Applications on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin under Volatile Block Rewards: How Mempool Statistics Can Influence Bitcoin Mining
- Hornet Node and the Hornet DSL: A Minimal, Executable Specification for Bitcoin Consensus
- Threshold ECDSA in Two Rounds
- Trout: Two-Round Threshold ECDSA from Class Groups
BIPs
- BIP: Script Restoration First Draft
- BIP: Mempool Validation and Relay Policies via User-Defined Scripts
- BIP: Standard Encrypted Wallet Payload
- BIP: Standard Encryption Envelope (Password-Protected)
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- index: Fix coinstats overflow
- coins: warn on oversized -dbcache
- p2p: Increase tx relay rate
- net: check for empty header before calling FillBlock
- contrib: update fixed seeds
- wallet: Identify transactions spending 0-value outputs, and add tests for anchor outputs in a wallet