Socratic Seminar #5
Presentation
Mailing Lists and Bitcoin Optech
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- A proposal for WTXID-based transaction relay
- BIP 340 updates: even pubkeys, more secure nonce generation
- Nonce blinding protocol for hardware wallets and airgapped signers
lightning-dev
- Using PoDLE in LN
- On massive channel closing and fee bumping
- Direct Message draft
- Reverse up-front payments
Optech
Network Data
CVEs and Research
Research
- One sideded MimbleWimble transactions
- Taproot in the Generic Group Model
- An examination of the cryptocurrency pump and dump ecosystem
- Bitcoin Crypto–Bounties for Quantum Capable Adversaries
- Securing Proof-of-Work Ledgers via Checkpointing
- Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy
- Profit from Two Bitcoin Mining Tactics: Towing and Shutdown
- An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy
InfoSec
- Let’s Encrypt CAA rechecking bug
- Escaping the Chrome Sandbox with RIDL
- Mitigations are attack surface. too
- We tracked 133,000 Ethereum names and exposed their secrets
- Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks
- Route Hijacking and DoS in Off-Chain Networks
- Fulcrum hack
- IOTA theft and downtime
- steemit hostile takeover
Pull Requests and repo updates
Bitcoin Core
- wallet: Replace %w by wallet name in -walletnotify script
- Remove forcerelay of rejected txs
- set default bip32derivs to true for psbt methods
libsecp
BIPs
eclair
c-lightning
lnd
- adds fundall flag to openchannel
- Intercept forward htlc
- channeldb/kvdb: introduce new KV-store database abstraction
BOLTS
Events
Miscellaneous
- DNSSEC root key signing ceremony delayed
- Stanford Blockchain Conference transcripts
- Boltathon transcripts
- Pheonix v1.2
- Coinkite Bunker
- Zeus v0.2.1
- Circular rebalancing, RTL v0.6.5
- ZEBEDEE SDK and dashboard for LN powered games
- VR Meetups