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
- Bay Area Bitcoin conference interest survey from Pamela - open through 2/28
- Hash-lock Ark
- Magnolia launches DLC oracle for Bitcoin-backed loans
- Nifty shares 2026 bitcoin++ plans
- Citrea mainnet goes live
Blogs
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Incremental mutation testing in the Bitcoin Core
- Disposing of “dust attack” UTXOs
- SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups
- ZK-Statechains Without States
CVEs and Research
Research
BIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- Add sedited to trusted-keys
- Broadcast own transactions only via short-lived Tor or I2P connections
- wallet: disallow creating new or restoring to an unnamed (default) wallet
- p2p: send first addr self-announcement in separate message
- kernel: Add block header support and validation