Socratic Seminar #11
Optech
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- MuSig-DN: Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Verifiably Deterministic Nonces
- Tor security advisory: exit relays running sslstrip in May and June 2020
- Chainalysis: East-Asia Cryptocurrency Market 2020
- How Latin America Mitigates Economic Turbulence with Cryptocurrency
- An Analysis and Disclosure Regarding the Deterministic Nature of the Wasabi Wallet CoinJoin Algorithm
- How to stop the onion denial (of service)
- The Urgency of Rearchitecting Bitcoin’s Mempool
- The Bisq DAO: On the Privacy Cost of Participation
- Discouraging Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoins
- Cross-Layer Deanonymization Methods in the Lightning Protocol
- Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning
- Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
- Reflections on Bitcoin Transaction Batching
- A ransom attack on Trezor’s and KeepKey’s passphrase handling
- Electrum phising attack still active
- Are Chinese Miners a Threat to Bitcoin?
- Top Bitcoin Mining Pools See 15% Hashrate Drop Amid Continuous Rainstorms in China
Miscellaneous
- 10x Security Bitcoin Guide
- This month in Bitcoin privacy
- Cypherpunklabs: Tor node shop
- MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset
- Liquid.coach
- Payment pools summary
- ETH Supplygate
- All Paths Lead to Your Destination
- Rudefox Burrow
- 10 key technical Lightning updates in 2020
- 2-of-3 inputs using Pay-to-Taproot
- Fears Grow of Exit Scam as the Biggest Darknet Empire Market Goes Offline For More than 72 Hours
- Wasabi Bug Bounty
- Whirlpool + Postmix Spending FAQ
- Antminer S19 Pro vs Whatsminer M30S+
- Antminer S19 Pro vs Whatsminer M30S+ (Part 2) – Thermal Image Analysis
- The Patoshi Mining Machine
- Rust c-lightning client
- Bitmain Delays Bitcoin Miner Shipments by Three Months as Co-Founders Battle On
- Pool Detective
- Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet
- Russia’s Crypto Mining Farms Would Have to Report to Government Under Proposed Bill
- Police reportedly seize South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Bithumb
- Are regulators poised to demand cryptocurrency address whitelisting? Probably not.
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Revisiting squaredness tiebreaker for R point in BIP340
- Generalizing feature negotiation when new p2p connections are setup
- Detailed protocol design for routed multi-transaction CoinSwap
- Default Signet, Custom Signets and Resetting Testnet
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- p2p: Signal support for compact block filters with NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS #19070
- wallet: always do avoid partial spends if fees are within a specified range #14582
- rpc: Add getindexinfo RPC #19550
- wallet: Remove -zapwallettxes #19671
- rpc: fundrawtransaction and walletcreatefundedpsbt also lock manually selected coins #18244
- Add loadwallet and createwallet load_on_startup options #15937
LND
- multi: I wumbo, you wumbo, he she wumbo #4429
- lnrpc/invoicesrpc: extend hop hint selection to account for MPP #4521
- multi: hold keysend payments #4167
c-lightning
- Anchor output support (iff EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES) #3830
- Implement
keysendsending support for spontaneous payments #3792