Socratic Seminar #24
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Turing Machines on Bitcoin
- Lightning Network Probing Simulator
- New addresses on OFAC sanctioned list
- bitcoin.org hacked
- Bitcoin.org hackers steal $17,000 in ‘double your cash’ scam
- The Exact Security of BIP32 Wallets
- Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities In Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM
- Pinpointing and Measuring Wasabi and Samourai CoinJoins in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
- 3-of-3 Multisignature Approach for Enabling Lightning Network Micro-payments on IoT Devices
- Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops
- Elligator Squared for BN-like curves
Miscellaneous
- Searchable IRC Logger by Chaincode Labs
- FTX Partners With Brink for $450K Charitable Contribution
- 3.75BTC developer grants from HRF
- Nic Carter Slides Texas Blockchain Summit
- LNURLPoS
- Gun.Fun - Bitcoin DLC cli-wallet
- Interesting updates to lightning network under development
- Lopp: Lightning Liquidity Management Guide
- trampoline routing (2021 edition)
- Snowden: Your Money AND Your Life
- Arcane Research: The State of Lightning
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- German KryptoWTransferV, implementing FATF travel rule
- Magic Future Money book
- Lightning Payments at Friedel Richter
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Package Mempool Accept
- BIP Process Meetings
- Mock introducing vulnerability in important Bitcoin projects
lighting-dev
- CVE-2021-1591 Dust HTLC Exposure Considered Harmful
- Fast Forwards By Channel-in-Channel Construction
- Removing lnd’s source code from the Lightning specs repository
- Lightning over taproot with PTLCs
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- RPC: Add ancestor{count,size,fees} to listunspent output #12677
- Add Single Random Draw as an additional coin selection algorithm #17526
- Allow UTXO locks to be written to wallet DB #23065
- syscall sandboxing using seccomp-bpf #20487
- Fuzzing Bitcoin Core using Eclipser
LND
- Atomic batch channel funding
- Add macaroon based RPC middleware interceptor #5101
- kvdb: add postgres #5366