Socratic Seminar 70
2026-05-14
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 April 2nd to May 10th.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
News, Tweets & Misc
- Kraken parent company Payward is acquiring Bitnomial
- Stratum V2 Working Group Expansion
- Lightspark <-> Visa Partnership
- Tether Investments Proposes Merger Plans at Twenty-One Capital to Accelerate its Strategic Direction
- CLARITY Act moves forward to markup
Blogs
- BIP-54: Block propagation and validation duration during slow-to-validate blocks on Signet
- Localhost Post-Quantum Cryptography Group
- Introducing LDK Server
- Post Quantum Bitcoin: Concepts of a Plan - A zk-STARK Escape Hatch for BIP-32 Wallets
- PACTs: Protecting Your Bitcoin From a Quantum Sunset
- Estimated transactions per second with different hash-based signature schemes
bitcoin-dev
- Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication
- Post-Quantum BIP-86 Recovery via zk-STARK Proof of BIP-32 Seed Knowledge
- In defense of a PQ output type
Delving Bitcoin
- Hornet Update: A declarative executable specification of consensus rules
- Binary Fuse filters as an alternative to BIP 158 GCS
- Optimistic payout in BitVM implementations like Citrea?
- QR-based signing flow payloads in Miniscript context
- Protocol for zero-conf transactions
BNOC
- Did the number of reachable nodes in residential ISPs increase since Bitcoin Core v30.0?
- Small getaddr responses from 897 nodes (/Satoshi:27.0.0/ on AS63949)
CVEs and Research
Research
- Mosaic: Practical Malicious Security for Garbled Circuits on Bitcoin
- BABE: Verifying Proofs on Bitcoin Made 1000x Cheaper
- Bitcoin PIPEs v2
- Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear
- Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly
- Practical Post-Quantum Secure Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing and Applications
- Zinc+: SNARKs for Polynomial Rings
InfoSec
BIPs
- BIP 054: 64-Byte Transactions and Potential Legitimate Uses
- BIP 352 Update: warn against stopping scan due to wallet policy filtering
- BIP 352 Update: add test vector for edge case - input key intermediate sum zero
- BIP Draft: Wallet Backup Metadata Format
- BIP Draft: PQC Precommitment for Post-Quantum Migration
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- bitcoin-cli: Add -ipcconnect option
- cli, rpc: add -rpcid option for custom request IDs
- rpc, mempool: -deprecatedrpc fullrbf and bip125-replaceable from mempool RPCs
- Export embedded ASMap RPC
- kernel: add context‑free block validation API (btck_check_block_context_free) with POW/Merkle flags
- kernel: add serialization method for btck_BlockHeader API
- kernel: expose btck_block_tree_entry_get_ancestor
- net_processing: don't modify addrman for private broadcast connections
- Rollback for dumptxoutset without invalidating blocks
- wallet: fix gethdkeys RPC for descriptors with partial xprvs
- wallet: Add separate balance info for non-mempool wallet txs