Socratic Seminar 64
2025-11-04
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Stanford University, 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 Oct 1st to November 2nd.
Chain Weather Report
- Clark Moody Dashboard
- Mempool
- Block Fee Rates
- Block Rewards 1m
- Amusing Data On Chain:
News & Announcements
- Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire
- $15 billion seized by US originates from Iran/China bitcoin miner "theft"
- Square Brings Bitcoin to Main Street with First Integrated Payments and Wallet Solution for Local Businesses
- Arkade Launch
Discussion
Tweets & misc
- Steak n' Shake launches strategic bitcoin reserve & commits to OpenSats donations
- Trader nets $192M Bitcoin profit in suspicious pre-Trump tariff announcement trade
- Rearden outlines differences between OP_TEMPLATEHASH & OP_CTV
- Optimizing On-Chain Costs for Publishing Proofs in BitVM-Style Bridges
- A short note on the (in)ability to embed data in Schnorr
- Bitcoin Core dev in-person meeting notes
Blogs
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Optimal Threshold Signatures in Bitcoin
- Flattening Nested 2-of-2 Of a 1-of-1 And a k-of-n
- Concept Review: B-SSL (Bitcoin Secure Signing Layer)
- Determining BlockTemplate Fee Increase Using Fee Rate Diagram
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
BIPs
- BIP Proposal: Limit ScriptPubkey Size >= 520 Bytes Consensus.
- BIP Proposal: Chain Code Delegation for Private Collaborative Custody
- BIP Proposal: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork
- BIP3: add guidance on originality, quality, LLMs
- BIP155: mark torv2 as no longer in use–
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- multiprocess: Don't require bitcoin -m argument when IPC options are used
- rpc: fix getblock(header) returns target for tip
- docs: Undeprecate datacarrier and datacarriersize configuration options
- Mempool: Do not enforce TRUC checks on reorg
- cluster mempool: control/optimize TxGraph memory usage
- wallet: Be able to receive and spend inputs involving MuSig2 aggregate keys
- multiprocess: Fix high overhead from message logging & Update libmultiprocess subtree to support reduced logging
- Fix tiebreak when loading blocks from disk (and add tests for comparing chain ties)