Socratic Seminar 67
2026-02-05
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by 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 Jan 5th to Feb 1st.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
Tweets & misc
- Yam: a lightweight Bitcoin P2P network explorer and data tool
- Citrea mainnet goes live
- Nifty shares 2026 bitcoin++ plans
- Magnolia launches DLC oracle for Bitcoin-backed loans
- Supertestnet ssb playground
Blogs
- Taproot Quantum Spend Paths
- Announcing the AI Hack for Freedom Hackathon Winners
- Kompaktor: Compacting Bitcoin Payments Into Radical Efficiency
bitcoin-dev
- Falcon Post-Quantum Signature Scheme Proposal
- SLH-DSA verification can compete with ECC
- QRAMP addition: Alternative to legacy freeze: “quarantine-mode” legacy spends via two-phase destination commitment
Delving Bitcoin
- Bithoven: A Formally Verified, Imperative Smart Contract Language for Bitcoin
- Incremental mutation testing in the Bitcoin Core
- Disposing of “dust attack” UTXOs
- SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups
- BMAX: pricing “sats now vs sats later” via a mining sharechain
- Silent Payments notifications via Nostr
- BLISK: Boolean circuit Logic Integrated into the Single Key
CVEs and Research
Research
BIPs
- BIP 346: OP_TXHASH
- BIP 433: Add P2A BIP
- BIP 434: Peer Feature Negotiation
- BIP 445: FROST Signing Protocol for BIP340 Signatures
- BIP Draft: Silent Payment Output Script Descriptors
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- Add sedited to trusted-keys
- Broadcast own transactions only via short-lived Tor or I2P connections
- cluster mempool: exploit SFL properties in txgraph
- rpc, net: deprecate startingheight field of getpeerinfo RPC
- wallet: warn against accidental unsafe older() import
- wallet/rpc: fix listdescriptors RPC fails to return descriptors with private key information when wallet contains descriptors missing any key
- wallet: disallow creating new or restoring to an unnamed (default) wallet
- mining: getCoinbase() returns struct instead of raw tx
- p2p: send first addr self-announcement in separate message
- kernel: Add block header support and validation