Socratic Seminar #18
Newsletters
- Optech Newsletter #139
- Optech Newsletter #140
- Optech Newsletter #141
- Optech Newsletter #142
- Optech Newsletter #143
- This month in Bitcoin privacy March
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Why I’m against Taproot
- Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances
- Jameson Lopp: A History of Bitcoin Transaction Dust & Spam Storms
- An Overview of Lightning Network Implementations
- Akamai: Bitcoins, Blockchains and Botnets
- Analysis and Probing of Parallel Channels in the Lightning Network
- A repository of open Bitcoin research problems
- Testing Lightning Node Performance
- Blockchain.com tx network impact
- Bitcoin Block Time Variance: Theory vs Reality
Miscellaneous
- Fixing UASF
- A Theory of Bitcoin Governance
- The Blocksize War Book
- The Square Crypto Book of Bitcoin Mythodology
- New Trezor hardware Wallet with Tropic Square Open Source Chip In 2022?
- Bitcoin Transcripts
Taproot Activation Update
- AJs PR #21377 using MTP
- Andrews PR #21392 using height
- March 23rd 2021 Taproot Activation Meeting Notes
- Rustys NACK discussion
- Taproot Activation Meeting Notes, April 6th: The CoinFlip
- Update on “Speedy” Trial: The circus rolls on
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Delegated signatures in Bitcoin within existing rules, no fork required
- Designing Bitcoin Smart Contracts with Sapio (available on Mainnet today)
- Proposal: Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup
lighting-dev
- Funding Timeout Recovery proposal
- Towards more reliable payment path finding via probabilistic modeling the uncertainty of channel balance
- Lightning Network Protocol Suite Diagram - Request for feedback
Pull requests
BIPs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- BIP 350: Implement Bech32m and use it for v1+ segwit addresses #20861
- Qt: Add Android packaging support #17227
- p2p: protect onions in AttemptToEvictConnection(), add eviction protection test coverage #20197
- rpc: deprecate addresses and reqSigs from rpc outputs #20286
LND
- lncli: allow PSBT to be read from file #5083
- Add lncli command / RPC for manually setting channel state #5033
c-lightning
- c-lightning 0.10.0 released
- listpeers: add latest feerate and actual last fee amount. #4407
- Dual-Funding Flag Day #4427
Eclair
Electrum
HWI
Sekp256k1