Socratic Seminar #66
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Bitcoin Core DoS script
- Taproot Denial of Service Bug
- ESP32 Undocumented commands
- Bank of Canada: Canadian Bitcoin Ownership in 2023: Key Takeaways
- Secure VPN authentication through Bitcoin and Blockchain: an implementation
- A Formally Verified Lightning Network
- Capitalized Bitcoin Fork for National Strategic Reserve
- CISA Industry Paper
- Bitcoin’s Duplicate Transactions
- The Timewarp attack
- The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
- Address poisoning attacks
Miscellaneous
- The Evolution of Payjoin: From Two-Party Protocol to Multiparty Framework
- Fuzzamoto: Holistic Fuzzing for Bitcoin Protocol Implementations
- Ledger Bitcoin app 2.4.0 supports Musig/moosig testing tool
- L402 Nginx Module
- OpenSats: Tenths wave of Bitcoin grants
- OpenSats: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
- Bitcoin Humanitarian Alliance
- secp256k1lab Python library
- Asset recovery for former FTX EU customers
- 256Foundation Grants
- Explora - a visual tool to follow a chain of transactions
- DMND pool takes miner applications
- Hashpool v0.1 tagged
- Try Ark on Signet
- Orange Surf Grid view
- Ping Pong Custody
- Run with CSFS
- Build your own Coinpool Workshop
Network Data
- Invalid mining jobs by AntPool & friends during forks
- Mempool Partitioning and Identifying Mining Nodes
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- BMF-Schreiben: Einzelfragen zur ertragsteuerrechtlichen Behandlung bestimmter Kryptowerte
- Koalitionsverhandlungen: SPD will Krypto wie Kapitaleinkünfte besteuern
- Crypto Taxation Map
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
- Hashed keys are actually fully quantum secure
- Does anyone still need testnet3?
Delving Bitcoin
- CTV+CSFS: Can we reach consensus on a first step towards covenants?
- The Ark case for CTV
- OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY and its amount semantic
- LND’s Deadline-Aware Budget Sweeper
- Cluster mempool partitioning attacks
- IBD Booster – Speeding up IBD with pre-generated hints
- The path to general computation on Bitcoin (with OP_CAT)
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- Consensus Cleanup BIP draft
- BIP-360: QuBit - Pay to Quantum Resistant Hash (Revisit)
- Taplocks - Verifiable but unspendable tapleafs (with an application to emulating new opcodes)
- SwiftSync
Bitcoin Core
- cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph #31363
- wallet, rpc: deprecate settxfee and paytxfee #31278
- descriptor: check whitespace in keys within fragments #31603
- Help testing release candidates!
- v29 Testing guide draft
LND
Eclair
- Use package relay for anchor force-close #2963
- Remove amount-based confirmation scaling #3044
- Add path finding for blinded routes #3027
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- Handle receiving payments via Trampoline #3670
- Introduce evicted-at/last-evicted timestamps #1839
- allow functional tests to be used externally with a dynamic signer factory #3016