Socratic Seminar 71
2026-06-11
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 May 11th to June 7th.
Presentations
- Bram Cohen: chia-gaming
- Kyle: The Coming Era of Nation State Hash Wars
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
News, Tweets & Misc
- Bram shares thoughts on bringing gaming functionality to Bitcoin
- The BRCA survived Clarity’s markup. Do not give it up now.
- Key Signing Party: Proof of Human at Presidio Bitcoin
Blogs
- 2140: 1st annual report
- Localhost Mining Unit
- Conduition receives grant from Brink
- Introducing Cube
- Schnorr, But with Vectors – Lattice-based Signatures Explained
- Bitcoin Core developer meeting transcripts
- Matching Hashes: Reproducing the Guix-built Bitcoin Core release binary with Nix
- Bark now on bitcoin mainnet
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
BNOC
CVEs and Research
Research
- Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms
- Formally verified post-quantum ML-KEM and ML-DSA in corecrypto
InfoSec
- Zcash Orchard Counterfitting Vulnerability
- Vulnerability Disclosure: Assertion DoS in Core Lightning
- We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
Improvement Proposals
BIPs
- BIP Proposal: Prohibit Merkle Internal Node Preimages That Encode Minimal 64-Byte Transactions
- BIP 452: P2P UTXO Set Sharing
BOLT
BLIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- coinselection: Optimize BnB exploration
- Implement BIP 370 PSBTv2
- mining: add submitBlock to IPC Mining interface
- net: use the proxy if overriden when doing v2->v1 reconnections