Socratic Seminar 72
2026-07-09
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 June 8th to July 5th.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
News, Tweets & Misc
- Who was the 1st Bitcoin Miner?
- Noah Ark wallet announced
- Arké Ark wallet announced
- Square terminals now expose Bitcoin toggle to users
- Strategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program
Blogs
bitcoin-dev
- Giving teeth to expected EC disabling: P2XX(-T)(-ML)
- btc-verified: formalizing the Bitcoin protocol
- Accountable Computing On-Chain Contracts for AI Agents Supervision
- Proposal discussion: BIP39 native-language display wordlists
Delving Bitcoin
- Bird of Prey 2: non-malleable Schnorr + PQ signatures
- A faster Go (golang) secp256k1 library
- Roast our real-time Bitcoin explorer built for everyday Bitcoin users
- Proof-of-work based signet faucet
- A Bitcoin-native LLM: dataset, architecture and open questions
- Addressing the Diminishing Block Subsidy
- Emulating OP_RAND
- Empirical ML-DSA-87 data from a live SHA-256 PoW chain
- Input-triggered transaction expiry
BNOC
- ASmap dashboard: first version, looking for feedback
- Outbound connection success rates of a Bitcoin node
- Brainstorming: What data to collect and monitor during the BIP-110 & BIP-300 forks in August 2026?
CVEs and Research
Research
- N/A
InfoSec
Improvement Proposals
BIPs
- BIP 95: testnet5
- BIP 110: advance to Complete status
- BIP 360: depth-zero script trees should be anyone-can-spend
- BIP Proposal: Removal of BIP 125 RBF signalling in wallet transactions
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- BIP 323 Support: reserve version bits 5-28 as extra nonce space
- BIP 434 Support: Peer feature negotiation
- Replace libevent with our own HTTP and socket-handling implementation
- Full Libevent removal
- coinselection: Optimize BnB exploration
- net: use the proxy if overriden when doing v2->v1 reconnections
- validation: prevent FindMostWorkChain from causing UB
- bitcoin-util: Add netmagic command
- net_processing: fix BIP152 first integer interpretation
Bitcoin Inquisition
lnd
ldk
- Stop using an introduction node in blinded message paths
- Include Nonce in payer_metadata again
- Reject RGS snapshots that leave our graph absurdly-sized
- Clear monitor-pending RAA once regenerated
- Lower strictness of pending monitor update while awaiting tx_signatures
- Ignore stale splice initial commitment_signed