Socratic Seminar #17

Meetup

Newsletters

• Optech Newsletter #135
• Optech Newsletter #136
• Optech Newsletter #137
• Optech Newsletter #138
• This Month In Bitcoin Privacy February 2021

Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research

• A Formal Proof of safegcd Bounds
• The safegcd implementation in libsecp256k1 explained
• On the Impact of Attachment Strategies for Payment Channel Networks
• FPPW: A Fair and Privacy Preserving Watchtower For Bitcoin
• Backdoored paper Wallet Generator site steals funds
• Rusty: A Model for Bitcoin Soft Fork Activation
• On the Estimation of the Number of Unreachable Peers in the Bitcoin P2P Network by Observation of Peer Announcements
• libtxsize – a library for automated Bitcoin transaction-size estimates
• PHD thesis: Foundations of Generalized State Channel Networks
• First Taproot script path spend on signet
• Blitz: Secure Multi-Hop Payments Without Two-Phase Commits
• Autotuning vs. Overclocking for Bitcoin Miners (SHA-256 ASICs)
• Gain Privacy with the Encrypted Blob

Miscellaneous

• BTC endgame simulator
• “The Label” Bitcoin dev collective by Gleb and Antoine
• Craig Wright sues Bitcoin Core developers
• MIT DCI’s new four year program: Bitcoin’s (un)common good
• Bitcoin CoreDev reflections 2020-2021
• Taproot uses
• On taproot activation and consensus changes in Bitcoin
• Early contributor to Bitcoin (possible Satoshi candidate)
• CAT and Schnorr Tricks 1
• CAT and Schnorr Tricks 2
• Release of Suredbits Oracle Explorer and Krystal Bull

Europe/Germany/Berlin

• So will die Bundesregierung die Krypto-Anonymität einschränken
• Solarisbank Trading API
• Ownership, uses and perceptions of cryptocurrency: Results from a population survey

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Taproot Activation Discussions
  • Second IRC Meeting
  • Meeting Stats by Achow101
  • Luke Dashjr: LOT=False is dangerous and shouldn’t be used
  • UASF Movement Announced
  • Alternative Suggestions
    • Speedy Trial
    • Speedy Trial support measure
    • Straight Flag Day
    • Making the case for Flag Day
    • Decreasing Threshold
    • Supermajority then simple majority
    • LOT flip on 80%
    • Miner signalled delay
    • Configurable LOT
    • LOT=Informational
• Proposal for new “disabletx” p2p message
• Proposal: Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup
• Proposal to stop processing of unrequested transactions in Bitcoin Core

lighting-dev

• Hold fee rates as DoS protection (channel spamming and jamming)

Pull requests

Bitcoin Core

• External signer support - Wallet Box edition #16546
• Allow maintaining the blockfilterindex when using prune #15946
• Add I2P support using I2P SAM #20685
• Per-Peer Message Capture #19509
• Add hash_type MUHASH for gettxoutsetinfo #19145

LND

• routing: allow runtime updates to mission control config #4909

c-lightning

• Warning message support #4364

Eclair

• Sort addresses in node announcement #1693

HWI

• Docs upgrade
• BitBox02 multisig signing #443

BTCPayServer

• Wallet setup redesign #2164