Socratic Seminar #23
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Userspace, Statically Defined Tracing support for Bitcoin Core
- CheckSequenceVerify DISCOURAGE_UPGRADABLE_NOPS Defect
- eltoo with Anyprevout and Taproot
- bitcoinbinary.org - reproducable builds
- CISA writeup by n1ckler
Miscellaneous
- Proof of Reserves & Liabilities – BitMEX Demonstration
- 2014 MIT Bitcoin Airdrop 7 years later
- bip174.org - Bitcoin PSBT Explorer
- Donnerlab changes course to lightning infrastructure
- Bitcoin Smiles
- Bitcoin Academy for Activists
- SeedSigner
- Blockstream raises $210M Series B
- Stale Block at height #697,008
- Lightning’s Missing Piece: A Decentralized Liquidity Market
- More UTXO set consolidation happening at low fee rates
- Segwit usage crossing 80%
- Taproot Node Support 52.58%
- New Square Crypto grant: JohnCantrell97
- New BitMEX grant: Sjors Provoost
- Alex Bosworth has routed 200 BTC YTD
- First Summer of Bitcoin with 51 students concludes
Berlin/Germany/Europe
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Removing the Dust Limit
- Reorgs on SigNet - Looking for feedback on approach and parameters
- TAPLEAF_UPDATE_VERIFY covenant opcode
- Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool
- Proposal for a few IANA mime-types related to Bitcoin
lighting-dev
- #zerobasefee
- Do we really want users to solve an NP-hard problem when they wish to find a cheap way of paying each other on the Lightning Network?
- Fee Budgets: A Possible Path Towards Unified Cost Functions For Lightning Pathfinding Problems
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- https://bolt12.org/
- Update closing_signed fee requirement #847
- feature: define option_zero_htlc_tx_fee (feature 22/23) #824
- Clean up existing and add range-based closing_signed negotiation #1011
Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Core 22.0 released
- wallet: Decide which coin selection solution to use based on waste metric #22009
- Add a new RPC command: restorewallet #22541
- wallet, rpc: add an option to list private descriptors #21500
- mempool/validation: mempool ancestor/descendant limits for packages #21800