Socratic Seminar #15
Newsletters
- Optech Newsletter #127
- Optech Newsletter #128
- Optech Newsletter #129 (Year in Review Special)
- Optech Newsletter #130
- This Month In Bitcoin Privacy December 2020
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Mitigating Channel Jamming with Stake Certificates
- Taproot Ringsig
- All v3 Onion Addresses Down After Attack On The Tor Network
- KuCoin Hack Coin movement
- First CoinSwap on Testnet
- Coin Teleport
- Ledger Phising Funds
- Lightning time machine
- Lightning Network Economics: Cost-Minimal Channels and their Implications for Network Structure
- Pricing Security in Proof-of-Work Systems
- VERIFICATION OF RECURSIVE BITCOIN CONTRACTS
- A Tale of Two Layers: The Mutual Relationship between Bitcoin and Lightning Network
- Battlement: A Quorum Based Design for Lightning Network Key Management
- RouTEE: A Secure Payment Network Routing Hub using Trusted Execution Environments
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Miscellaneous
- Ledger SatStack
- Explain Like I’m Not a Developer: Taproot Privacy
- Hashrate flows: 2020 from the crypto miner’s perspective
- Jade, a new hardware wallet by Blockstream
- Square grant to work on Stratum v2
- AJ Towns - BITCOIN IN 2021
- Video: Bitcoin UTXO Creation & Destruction - Block 0 to 661045
- Verify your Bitcoin Core Download
- Reproducible Builds With Gitian (1/2)
- Lightning Gaming Retro 2020
- Here come the exchanges
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Softchains: Sidechains as a Soft Fork via Proof-of-Work Fraud Proofs
- Progress on bech32 for future Segwit Versions (BIP-173)
- New PSBT version proposal
- BIP-0322 (generic signmessage) improvements
lighting-dev
- Trampoline routing improvements and updates
- Recovery of Lightning channels without backups
- Covert channel recovery with Oblivious Signatures
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- SignApple
- Add MuHash3072 implementation #19055
- Disable fee estimation in blocksonly mode (by removing the fee estimates global) #18766
- Periodically make block-relay connections and sync headers #19858
- Don’t send ‘sendaddrv2’ to pre-70016 software, and send before ‘verack’ #20564
c-lightning
- Offers: Part 1, Spec import and basic infrastructure #4255
- doc/BACKUP.md: Document backup strategies for
lightningd. #4207