Socratic Seminar #9
Optech
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- An empirical study of availability and reliabilityproperties of the Bitcoin Lightning Network Subtleties and Security
- Bitcoin Covenants: Three Ways to Control the Future
- Tim Ruffing on Taproot and Schnorr Multisignatures
- MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack
Miscellaneous
- Electrum Server Performance Report
- BitMEX & OKCoin grant for Amiti Uttarwar
- Square Crypto grant for Steve Myers/BDK
- Bitcoin Dev Kit
- Bitcoin Design Slack and second community call is set for 2020-07-22, Wed, 1800 CEST
- Bitcoin grants tracker
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Also see Research: MAD-HTLC
- BIP 118 and SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT
- BIP draft: BIP32 Path Templates
- CoinPool, exploring generic payment pools for Fun and Privacy
- IRC discussion on ##taproot-activation
lightning-dev
- Disclosure of a fee blackmail attack that can make a victim loose almost all funds of a non Wumbo channel and potential fixes
- RBF Pinning with Counterparties and Competing Interest
- Pinning : The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Pull requests
BIPs
Proposals/Technical Write-ups
- Hardware Wallet Support in GUI and RPC, using HWI - Final user experience
- Lightning transactions: from Zero to Hero
Bitcoin Core
- “PSBT Operations” dialog #18027
- sendtoaddress/sendmany: Add explicit feerate option #11413
- Reduce inv traffic during IBD #19204
- Add gettxoutsetinfo hash_type option #19328
- Separate repository for the gui #19071
- don’t automatically append inputs in walletcreatefundedpsbt #16377
- net: Extract download permission from noban #19191
- test: change blacklist to blocklist #19227
c-lightning
- PSBT
- Paymod
LND
- REST saga 2/3: Add REST endpoints to all RPCs #4251
- Intercept forward htlc #4018
- multi: add a rpc endpoint to track the recovery process #4106
- multi: hold keysend payments #4167