Socratic Seminar #6
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Statechain Implementations
- Overview of anti-covert-channel signing techniques
- RFC: Kicking BIP-322 (message signing) into motion
- Hash function requirements for Taproot
- Mitigating Differential Power Analysis in BIP-340
lightning-dev
- Blind paths revisited
- Proof-of-closure as griefing attack mitigation
- Superbolt Proposal - a professionally run LN subset delivering superior UX
- Anchor Outputs Spec & Implementation Progress
- BOLT 13(?): WatchTower protocol
Optech
Network Data
Research
- Islamic approach toward purification of transaction with cryptocurrency
- SPECIAL SITUATION REPORT - PlusToken Issue 2
- Schnorrless Scriptless Scripts
InfoSec
- Covid19 Contact tracing using BTLE in iOS and Android
- AMD processors from 2011 to 2019 vulnerable to two new attacks
- Trrespass
- Bisq Trading Halted
- Warning — Two Unpatched Critical 0-Day RCE Flaws Affect All Windows Versions
- Intel x86 Root of Trust: loss of trust
- Zoom Security
- Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others
Pull Requests and repo updates
Bitcoin Core
- Add ChainstateManager, remove BlockManager global #17737
- descriptors: improve descriptor cache and cache xpubs #18204
- wallet: Pass in transactions and messages for signing instead of exporting the private keys #18115
- Abstract out script execution out of VerifyWitnessProgram() #18002
- O(1) OP_IF/NOTIF/ELSE/ENDIF script implementation #16902
- A Document About Native Descriptor Wallets
libsecp
eclair
- Harden requirements on htlc-minimum-msat #1339
- Funder reserve for future fee increase #1319
- Support additional TLV records in SendPayentRequest #1367
c-lightning
lnd
- wallet: PSBT channel funding #4079
- MPP: Enable MultiPathPayments for payment lifecycle #3970
- peers: Track errors across connections #4051
- doc: add Operational Safety Guidelines document #3963
- anchor: pluggable anchor commitments #3821
- watchtower: automatically create tor hidden service if enabled#4087
Joinmarket
Releases
Events
- MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020 Videos
- First VR Socratic
- Bitcoin Halving around May 12: https://www.bitcoinhalving.com/
Miscellaneous
- Bitcoin Vaults
- BitMEX: Who funds Bitcoin development?
- Announcing Faraday: Tame your Lightning Node with Close Recommendations
- Lightning Polar v1.0 and Website
- Bitcoin Security Debate
- Coinbase rolls out transaction batching
- MakerDAO Disaster
- How we recovered over $300K of Bitcoin
- Lightning Watchtower implementation: Eye of Satoshi
- 21 Million Bitcoins to Rule all Sidechains: The Perpetual One-way Peg
- c-lightning Plugins Talk
- Wasabi Research Club
- Your ASIC is Probably Mispriced
- LSAT: Authentication and Payments for the Lightning-Native Web
- Chaincode Podcast: Matt Corallo and Compact Blocks/FIBRE
- Chaincode Podcast: Nadav Kohen and Payment Points
- Samourai : Whirlpool CoinJoin Stats
- Stephan Livera Podcast: GLEB NAUMENKO – ERLAY BITCOIN TRANSACTION RELAY
- Potzblitz Lightning Talk
- Zap Android
- Simplicity: Jets Release