Socratic Seminar 66
2026-01-08
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 Dec 8th to Jan 4th.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
Tweets & misc
- Auradine announces Stratum v2 support
- Coldcard miniscript updates
- Bitcoin Core versions run by mining pools
- Distributed Charge - EV Now Available For Public Testing
- A New Approach to Universal Bitcoin Wallet Backup with Passkeys and PRF
- jamesob quantum skeptic resources
Blogs
bitcoin-dev
- Hash-Based Signatures for Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Future
- [Discussion] Year 2106 Timestamp Overflow - Proposal for uint64 Migration
- CTV activation meeting #1 Notes
Delving Bitcoin
- Vanadium: A Virtualized Secure Enclave for Hardware Signing Devices
- Raw₿it — the visual raw transaction builder & script debugger
- Building a vault using blinded co-signers
- Modifying BIP54 to Support Future nTime Soft Fork
- OP_CC: A simple introspection opcode to enable cheaper consolidations
CVEs and Research
InfoSec
BIPs
- BIP-390: update to allow musig() key expressions inside of a rawtr()
- BIP-3: Address feedback prompted by Motion to Activate
- BIP-54: Addressing remaining points
- BIP-360: Updates
- BIP Proposal: Peer Feature Negotiation
- BIP Proposal: Add PSBT_IN_SP_TWEAK field
- Draft BIP: DustSweep - policy-only UTXO dust compaction
- BIP Idea: Timelock-Recovery storage format
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- wallet: don't consider unconfirmed TRUC coins with ancestors
- chainparams: remove dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us
- init: point out -stopatheight may be imprecise
- validation: Improve warnings in case of chain corruption
- rest: allow reading partial block data from storage
- validation: periodically flush dbcache during reindex-chainstate
- Replace cluster linearization algorithm with SFL
- policy: allow <minrelay txns in package context if paid for by cpfp