Socratic Seminar #13
Optech
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- MuSig2: Simple Two-Round Schnorr Multi-Signatures
- LN Research Data
- Why are you hiding: Characterising Proxy Usage in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
- Gotta Catch’em All! Improving P2P Network Crawling Strategies
- securePrune: Secure block pruning in UTXO based blockchains using Accumulators
- CVE-2020-26895: LND Low-S Tx-Relay Standardness
- CVE-2020-26896: LND Invoice Preimage Extraction
- Diplomarbeit: Die Einzelzwangsvollstreckung in Bitcoins - Möglichkeiten des Zugriffs
- This Month In Bitcoin Privacy October 2020 Newsletter
- Large Wallet with allegedly long-time lost keys emptied out
- Low Bandwidth Bitcoin
- The Growth of Bitcoin Merge Mining
- Hashrate Index
- How nearly all personal hardware wallet multisig setups are insecure
Miscellaneous
- Trezor Suite Public Beta
- Coinbase will sponsor two Bitcoin Core developers
- BitMex Research on Brainwallets
- First Bitcoin “Mixer” Penalized by FinCEN for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
- PayPal Launches New Service Enabling Users to Buy, Hold and Sell Cryptocurrency
- What’s Coming To The Bitcoin Core Wallet in 0.21
- Umbrel: personal Bitcoin and Lightning Network node
- Activating Soft Forks in Bitcoin
- Enterprise Bitcoin Engineering
- Mercury Statechain
- Lightning Pool: A Technical Deep-Dive
- Ledger Phising Attack
- Coldcard Best Practices
- Nunchuk: New Multisig Wallet
- Atomic Pivot
- Miner Autotuning
- Utreexo Project Update
- DLC: Oracle Public Key Distribution
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- First compliant Bitcoin-ATMs in Germany?
- Room77 is closed for good
- Sutor Bank now offers a regulated Bitcoin exchange in Germany
- Spain plans bill to force disclosure of crypto-currency holdings
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
lighting-dev
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- Complete the BIP155 implementation and upgrade to TORv3 #19954
- Implement BIP 340-342 validation (Schnorr/taproot/tapscript) #19953
- Overhaul transaction request logic #19988
- Add sqlite as an alternative wallet database and use it for new descriptor wallets #19077