Socratic Seminar 74
2026-09-03
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 August 3rd to September 1st.
Chain Weather Report
Discussion
News, Tweets & Misc
- BIP-110 monitoring stream: mandatory signaling start
- Luke Dashjr has separated from OCEAN, resigning as Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and director.
- Cornell Bitcoin Adoption Index
- OP_TEMPLATEHASH Ark demonstration
- Ledger app v2.5 adds human-readable policy descriptions
- The RY3T NOVA: The first product built on Mujina
Blogs
- Glass Coins protocol specification
- OP_CHECKSHRINCS: A Hash-Based Signature Opcode for Post-Quantum Bitcoin
- Are Hardware Wallets Ready to Produce Post-Quantum Signatures?
bitcoin-dev
- static-pie release binaries available for testing
- Motion to remove Luke Dashjr from BIP Editors
- DropKick ⚽️ - A minimal commit/reveal PQ rescue protocol
Delving Bitcoin
- Conditional Message Transfer Contract To Solve Jamming
- Libshrincs: A C implementation with a machine-checked security proof
- Universal opt-in replay protection?
- RFC: Block-Range Filters (a.k.a. Hierarchical filters)
- Faster txid hash tables with SipHash-1-3-UJ
- SuperScalar: an implementation report
BNOC
- Electrum Server Monitoring: Header Propagation and Shared Infrastructure
- SpiderPool mines two blocks at same height 963853
- Address Relay under stress
CVEs and Research
Research
- Rational Quantum Mechanics: Testing Quantum Theory with Quantum Computers
- Lattice-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Mempool Linearization
- Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results
InfoSec
- Crashing A Lightning Node With A Flood Of Pings
- Disclosure: LND doesn’t wait for enough confirmations when closing channels
- BitBox discloses two severe hardware wallet vulnerabilities
- Trezor customer data exposed in shipping provider incident
- Wasabi Wallet “backdoor” exploit
- Update on the future of Boltz
- BTCPay Server Security Incident: Our Response and Next Steps
- Bitkey security updates
- Pass-the-Passkey Family of Attacks)
Improvement Proposals
BIPs
Noteworthy PRs
Bitcoin Core
- fees: Introduce Mempool Based Fee Estimation to reduce overestimation
- http: limit connected HTTPRemoteClients
- psbt: support output metadata updates before inputs are added
- rpc: avoid quadratic gettxspendingprevout work and preserve order
- txindex: hash keys and pack positions to reduce disk usage
- wallet, descriptor: Fix MuSig private key completeness checks on importdescriptors
- wallet: store all witness variants of a transaction
- wallet: derivehdkey RPC to get xpub at arbitrary path
HWI
lnd
- Add Outbound Remote Signer implementation
- discovery: bound channel range reply memory usage
- htlcswitch: forward blinded payments addressed by node_id
- lnwallet, chancloser: fix data race in the legacy coop close state machine
- lnwallet, htlcswitch: align update_fee handling with BOLT 2
rust-bitcoin
- crypto: Extend EcdsaSighashType to non-standard values
- p2p: Add support for BIP434 feature message
- primitives: Apply the witness item size limit to every element