Socratic Seminar 65
2025-12-13
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Gold Bar Whiskey Distillery, 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 Bitcoin topics from Nov 3rd to Dec 7th & Lightning topics from Nov 20th to Dec 7th.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
Tweets & misc
- 2025 ₿OSS Challenge: Start Your Career in Open Source
- Mononaut quantifies impact of Reduced Data Temporary Softfork proposal
- AntPool mines two blocks at height 925051
- >60% spy-peers connected to freshly setup node
- Public roadmap for Bitcoin Core?
Blogs
- Nunchuk 2.0: Autonomous inheritance
- Bitkey: Not our keys, not our business
- Brink: An Independent Security Audit of Bitcoin Core
bitcoin-dev
- LNHANCE a soft-fork package
- Benchmarking Bitcoin Script Evaluation for the Varops Budget (GSR)
- Motion to activate BIP 3
Delving Bitcoin
- Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade
- Proposal: OP_STARK_VERIFY - Native STARK Proof Verification in Bitcoin Script
- Propagation Delay and Mining Centralization: Modeling Stale Rates
- Consensus bug on NBitcoin: out-of-bound issue in
Remove() - Miniscript Studio - a fulll IDE based on Rust Miniscript
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
Research
BIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- Cluster mempool
- (IBD) coins: increase default UTXO flush batch size to 32 MiB
- kernel: Introduce C header API
- mining: check witness commitment in submitBlock
CLN
- Big nodes, big loads and lots of (overdue) optimizations
- Downgrade tool
- Added a new Docker
version-vlstag which includes VLS'sremote_hsmd_socketbinary with base CLN image - Fix the long-elusive "sometimes we miss utxo spends" bug.
Eclair
spendfromchanneladdress: Factor p2wsh/p2tr cases- Add API methods to spend funds sent to taproot channel addresses
LDK
- Enforce Trampoline Constraints (replacement)
- Add funding redeem script to
ChannelDetailsandChannelPendingevent - Handle mon update completion actions even with update(s) is blocked
- Add millisatoshi truncation 0FC test vectors from the spec
- Assert peer supports splicing before splicing channel