Socratic Seminar #20
Newsletters
- Optech Newsletter #148
- Optech Newsletter #149
- Optech Newsletter #150
- Optech Newsletter #151
- This month in Bitcoin privacy May
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- BIP: Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW
- An Analysis of Bitcoin’s Throughput Bottlenecks, Potential Solutions, and Future Prospects
- Sidecar Channels: For Onboarding A Billion People to Bitcoin, Lightning Is Needed
- OSS-FUZZ found some bugs in bitcoin-core
- BTC.COM, taproot signal and broken miners
- candidate-set-based-block-building
- Optimal Mining: Maximizing Bitcoin Miners’ Revenues
- LNGate: Powering IoT with Next Generation Lightning Micro-payments using Threshold Cryptography
- Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched Through Large Transactions
- M1RACLES (CVE-2021-30747)
- Bitcoin hash rate drops as Sichuan miners face short-term power cap
- Current State of Lightning Network Privacy
- Bitcoin Privacy - A Survey on Mixing Techniques
Miscellaneous
- STURM UND DRANG UND TAPROOT ACTIVATION
- Marathon Mining stops censoring transactions
- Iran’s central bank has declared that transactions of cryptocurrencies which were mined outside of Iran are forbidden
- The Freenode resignation FAQ
- Lightning: Number (of Users) Go Up
- Lightning Terminal Web - Node scoring
- Tor Only Bitcoin & Lightning Guide
- Learning with Chaincode
- c-lightning Opens First Dual-Funded Mainnet Lightning Channel!
- CISA savings on Coinjoins
- Faster Blockchain Validation with Utreexo Accumulators
- Out of Order Block Validation with Utreexo Accumulators
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Bitcom study: Kryptowährungen spalten die deutsche Wirtschaft
- Gesetzentwurf Kryptowertetransferverordnung
Taproot Activation Update
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Improvement on Blockbuilding
- A Stroll through Fee-Bumping Techniques : Input-Based vs Child-Pay-For-Parent
- Opinion on proof of stake in future
- Full Disclosure: CVE-2021-31876 Defect in Bitcoin Core’s bip125 logic
lighting-dev
- On Mempool Funny Games against Multi-Party Funded Transactions
- Improving Payment Latency by Fast Forwards
- Dropping Tor v2 onion services from node_announcement
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP 129: Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup (BSMS) #1097
- BIP 88: Templates for Hierarchical Deterministic derivation paths #1025
- BIP 87: Hierarchy for Deterministic Multisig Wallets #1089
Bitcoin Core
- rpc: include_unsafe option for fundrawtransaction #21359
- rpc/validation: enable packages through testmempoolaccept #20833
- wallet: Increase OUTPUT_GROUP_MAX_ENTRIES to 100 #18418
- Basic Taproot derivation support for descriptors #22051
LND
- Support paying AMP invoices via SendPaymentV2 #5253
- [anchors] cap value reserved for anchor fee bumping #5274
- Add basic bitcoin signet support #5025