Socratic Seminar 73
2026-08-06
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 July 6th to August 2nd.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
News, Tweets & Misc
- Bitcoin Security Consortium Announced
- Announcing Wavelength: Bitcoin on Easy Mode for Agents and Humans
- BitMEX Announces Shutdown
- BitMart Announces Shutdown
- OP_RETURN usage before and after Bitcoin Core v30
Blogs
- N/A
bitcoin-dev
- new backbone code release with bitcoind python test framework integration
- The game-theory problems of PQ sunsetting modes
Delving Bitcoin
- PQC output type discussion
- Fountain Codes: a way to reduce blockchain storage costs
- Transaction rate-limiting
- Vulnerability Disclosure: Twin Memory Exhaustion DoS Vulnerabilities in Core Lightning
- zkPoH: Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Hodl
BNOC
CVEs and Research
Research
- PQ Threshold Signatures for Bitcoin
- BABE: Verifying Proofs on Bitcoin Made 1000x Cheaper
- Duty-Free Bits: Projectivizing Garbling Schemes
- Implementable Witness Encryption
- Flock: Fast Proving for Batch Boolean Computations
InfoSec
- COLDCARD Security Advisory
- Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in COLDCARD Firmware
- Button Mashing Entropy for COLDCARD
Improvement Proposals
BIPs
- BIP proposal: Stale Tip Relay
- BIP draft: Full-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
- BIP 360 Updates
- BIP 440 & BIP 441 Updates
BOLTs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- coins: use SipHash-1-3-UJ for CCoinsMap keys
- mining: add getTransactions(ByWitnessID) IPC methods
- p2p: Drop unsolicited CMPCTBLOCK from non-HB peer and when blocksonly
- p2p: Assume v2transport for addresses from seeds
- p2p: Increase inbound capacity for block-relay only connections
- rpc: support a formal description of our JSON-RPC interface
- rpc: Distinguish between vsize and sigop adjusted mempool vsize
- rpc: Fix internal bug in descriptorprocesspsbt when encountering invalid signatures
- wallet: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet
Bitcoin Inquisition
- N/A