Socratic Seminar #1
Special thanks to Fulmo and Blockchain Embassy for refreshments and event space.
Most of the following links were taken from the BitDevs NYC Socratic Semainar #98.
Initiatives everyone should know
Mailing Lists and Bitcoin Optech
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
lightning-dev
- BOLT 12: Lightning Offers protocol discussion
- BOLT 11: New optional
vendorfield discussion - Potential Minor Sphinx Privacy Leak and Patch
Optech
Network Data
- 2019 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests
- Bitcoin mining in Georgia
- OXT Landscapes updated
- Hut 8 Mining Corp Q3 Financial Report
- Massive UTXO consolidation over the weekend
- WhatTheFee
CVEs and Research
Research
- Reducing Bitcoin Transaction Sizes with x-only Pubkeys
- Coin Selection with Leverage
- An investigation of MMM ponzi scheme on Bitcoin
- TendrilStaller: Block Delay Attack in Bitcoin
InfoSec
- Bitcoin Cash Hashrate Volatiility
- Bitcoin’s Block Timestamp Protection Rules
- How Coinbase views proof of work security
- 0-day for popular Android phones
Pull Requests and repo updates
Bitcoin Core
- Remove BIP70 support
- Add generatetodescriptor RPC
- Add Android NDK support
- UTXO snapshot creation (dumptxoutset)
- Merge settings one place instead of five places
- Remove GetDepthInMainChain dependency on locked chain interface
c-lightning
- Release: v0.7.3: Bitcoin’s Proof of Stake
- Multiple DB support for C-Lightning
- Postgres driver for backend DB
- JRPCLightning: Java Wrapper for C-Lightning RPC API
- Fix potential Sphinx privacy data leak
lnd
- Add ability to create new Macaroons
- Macaroon Entities and Actions
- Improve the probabilistic estimation for untried connections
- (pending) Allow custom data fields in the htlc payload
- (pending) Addressing Bitcoin Core 0.19 compatibility (#3625, #3649)
BIPs
- BIP 174 extensions
- BIP 179: Name for payment recipient identifiers
- BIP 325: Signet
- BIP 330: Transaction announcements reconciliation
BOLTs
- PR: Adding a new optional
vendorproperty to BOLT 11 payment requests - PR: Variable
hop_payloadfor the sphinx onion - (pending) Addressing Minor Sphinx privacy leak (#40, #697)
- Bolt 11 Diagram
Miscellaneous
- Node Operator’s Guide to the Lightning Galaxy, Part 2: Node Scoring and Pathfinding
- WhatSat: End-to-end encrypted, onion-routed, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer instant messaging over Lightning
- Polar: One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing
- RTL-Design: git workflow for design work on Ride The Lightning
- LSAT + Joule Demo
- Introducing Lightning Rod
- c-lightning Plugins 04: The listpayments Plugin