Socratic Seminar #21
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Fake Ledgers are sent to addresses from the leak
- Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us
- Lightning Mints
- North American Bitcoin Mining Index
- Bitcoin hashrate drops by nearly 50% following China’s mining crackdown
Miscellaneous
- Security Of Schnorr Signatures - Jonas Nick
- Podcast: A Death in Cryptoland
- Specter: Post Mortem about the Trojan False Positive
- BIP118 Sig Overview
- Quantum Proofing Bitcoin with a CAT
- Templates, Eltoo, and Covenants, Oh My!
- RBF Batching at CardCoins: Diving into the Mempool’s Dark Reorg Forest
- DLCs vs Multisig: Censorship Resistance
- Bitcoin Design Guide
- Bitcoin UI Kit
Berlin/Germany/Europe
- Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador – Massive Implications for German Crypto Regulation?
- Germany Opens Up to Institutional Crypto Funds
- First crypto custody license for Coinbase
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- CHECKSIGFROMSTACK/{Verify} BIP for Bitcoin
- BIP Proposals for Output Script Descriptors
- Eltoo / Anyprevout & Baked in Sequences
- Tuesday’s IRC workshop on L2 onchain support
- Last week’s second IRC workshop on L2 onchain support and wrap up
lighting-dev
- Turbo channels spec?
- Interactive tx construction and UTXO privacy, some thoughts
- bLIPs: A proposal for community-driven app layer and protocol extension standardization
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Basic Taproot derivation support for descriptors #22051
- Basic Taproot signing support for descriptor wallets #21365
- p2p: remove tor v2 support
- UI external signer support (e.g. hardware wallet) #4
- p2p: update inbound eviction protection for multiple networks, add I2P peers #21261
- Add OutputType::BECH32M and related wallet support for fetching bech32m addresses #22154
LND
c-lightning
- lnrpc: allow AMP pay-addr override + bump invoice timeouts #5336
- invoice: allow creation of giant invoices. #4606
- Bech32m support! #4591
- EXPERIMENTAL: channel upgrade support #4532
- experimental: Add extra-tlv support to keysend and cli option to allow extra TLV types #4610