Socratic Seminar #10
Optech
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Big Twitter Hack
- Money laundering of Twitter hack
- Counting Down Thunder: Timing A acks on Privacy in Payment Channel Networks
- Generalized Bitcoin Compatible Channels
- Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network
- WabiSabi
- Following the Blockchain.com feerate recommendations
- Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis
- Ledger data breach
- Chainalysis Dashboard
- Murch: UTXO management for enterprise wallets
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: July 2020
- The Alchemy of Hashpower
- Ledger App isolation bypass
- Toxic Recall Attack - Unwinding JoinMarket Case Study
- Segwit batching case study
- CoinJoin Data
- Undercutting Bitcoin Is Not Profitable
- Supply Chain Attacks Against Ledger Nano X Wallets
- New Statistical Model for Bitcoin’s Hashrate
Miscellaneous
- Malicious Tor relays changing Bitcoin addresses
- The Path to Taproot Activation
- Zap raises 3.5 Million
- What It’s Really Like to Live on Bitcoin in the Middle East
- Animated QR Demo
- AJ Towns: A Paradigm Shift
- PSBT Toolkit
- Call to action: testing and improving asmap
- lnprototest Alpha Release
- Utreexo Demo Release
- BitMex Developer Grant for Jeremy Rubin
- Lily Wallet
- Minsc - Miniscript-based scripting language for Bitcoin contracts
- Bitcoin Dev List
- Sapio: Stateful Smart Contracts for Bitcoin with OP_CTV
- Have I been known
- LiT
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Pull requests
BIPs and Proposals
- Taproot Activation
- Signet BIP update
Bitcoin Core
- 0.19: Add txids with non-standard inputs to reject filter
- net: remove -banscore configuration option
- net: Add -networkactive option
- Add datadir/settings.json persistent settings storage
- Replace current benchmarking framework with nanobench