Socratic Seminar #16
Newsletters
- Optech Newsletter #131
- Optech Newsletter #132
- Optech Newsletter #133
- Optech Newsletter #134
- This Month In Bitcoin Privacy January 2021
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Ledger: Efforts to Protect Your Data and Prosecute The Scammers
- Bitcoin Miner Transaction Fee Gathering Capability
- How Much Would it Cost to 51% Attack Bitcoin?
- Was there a Bitcoin double-spend on Jan 20, 2021?
- Stratum V2: Migration and Decentralization
- URI Argument Injection Vulnerability in Bitcoin Core 0.18 and Earlier
- Speeding up Block Propagation in BlockchainNetwork: Uncoded and Coded Designs
- An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network
- Atomic Swaps between Bitcoin and Monero
- The Tight Bound for Pure Price of Anarchy in an Extended Miner’s Dilemma Game
Berlin/Germany/Europe
- Übersicht BITE: Bitcoin Lightweight ClientPrivacy using Trusted Execution
- Wirtschaftlicher Weiterbetrieb von erneuerbaren Energieerzeugern nach Auslauf des Förderzeitraums des EEG mit Hilfe von Bitcoin-Mining am Beispiel einer Windenergieanlage
Miscellaneous
- Earlier MtGox payouts? No thanks to CoinLab
- Bitcoin 0.21.0 released
- Survey about use of Bitcoin Core by Andrew Chao
- Craig Wright sues websites that host the Bitcoin whitepaper
- LNsync by Blockstream
- Wladimir van der Laan - The widening gyre
- Home mining for non-KYC Bitcoin.
- Jonas Schnelli receives grant from Marathon
- Blockstream Satellite Updates
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- PayJoin adoption
- Update on DLCs (new mailing list)
- BIP32/43-based standard for Schnorr signatures & decentralized identity
- Taproot activation meeting on IRC
- Taproot activation meeting 2 - Tuesday 16th February 19:00 UTC
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPS
Bitcoin Core
- signet mining utility #19937
- net: Add NAT-PMP port forwarding support #18077
- eBPF Linux tracepoints #19866
- guix: Build support for macOS #17920
- wallet, rpc: add listdescriptors command #20226
- Peer details: replace Direction with Connection Type #163
Secp256k1
c-lightning
Eclair
lnd
- lncfg: make anchor commitments opt-in by halseth · Pull Request #4917 · lightningnetwork/lnd
- amp: introduce child preimage and hash derivation by cfromknecht · Pull Request #4162 · lightningnetwork/lnd
- Estimate mpp routing fee - documentation · Issue #4922 · lightningnetwork/lnd