Socratic Seminar #8
Optech
Releases
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Time-Dilation Attacks on the Lightning Network
- Evaluating Path finding Strategies on the Lightning Network
- Segwit transaction vulnerability in Trezor Firmware update
- Liquid: A Bitcoin Sidechain Whitepaper
- Bitcoin-Compatible Virtual Channels
- Splitting Payments Locally While Routing Interdimensionally
- CryptoMaze: Atomic Off-Chain Payments in Payment Channel Network
Miscellaneous
- Bitmex Open Source Developer Grant Program
- Dissecting the code responsible for the Bitcoin halving
- Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
- Amazon Prime Documentary: Banking On Africa - The Bitcoin Revolution
- Bitcoin Transaction Size Calculator
- Hashrate statistics after the halving on May 13th
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- SAS: Succinct Atomic Swap
- MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE and OP_RETURN
- Design for a CoinSwap implementation for massively improving Bitcoin privacy and fungibility
lightning-dev
- Miners Dust Inflation attacks on Lightning Network
- Array-based Routemap Representation, and the Advantages of Cheney 2-Finger Garbage Collection
Pull requests
BIPs
Bitcoin Core
- Altnet proposal
- Peer logging proposal
- Serve BIP 157 compact filters #18876
- display multiwallet balances in -getinfo #18594
- Drop unknown types in getdata #18808
- Do not answer GETDATA for to-be-announced tx #18861
- wallet: Keep inactive seeds after sethdseed and derive keys from them as needed #17681
- Multiprocess build support #18677
- p2p: Delay querying DNS seeds #16939
LND
- lnrpc: add block height params to GetTransactions and add ListSweeps #4139
- walletrpc: add LabelTransaction endpoint to retrospectively label txns #4228