Socratic Seminar #25
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin market
- Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
- Bank of Spain: The role of cryptoassets as legal tender: the example of El Salvador
- Where is the Light(ning) in the Taproot Dawn? Unveiling the Bitcoin Lightning (IP) Network
- Metal Bitcoin Seed Storage Stress Test (Round V)
- Sleepy Channels: Bitcoin-Compatible Bi-directional Payment Channels without Watchtowers
- Estimation of Ransomware Payments in Bitcoin Ecosystem
- Analysis and Patterns of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin
- Analysis of Decentralized Mixing Services in the Greater Bitcoin Ecosystem
- How much does it cost to destroy Bitcoin?
- Elligator Squared for BN-like curves
- Preventing Channel Jamming
Miscellaneous
- Jonas Schnelli steps down as Bitcoin Core maintainer and dev
- Blockstream Sponsors Federated E-Cash as a Bitcoin Scaling Technology
- Fedimint Website
- Umbrel raises 3M$
- Effortlessly create Lightning Channels with Flow
- Bug in Eclair enabled hack of lntxbot
- libbitcoinkernel status
- Schnorr Wizardry Cheatsheet
- Liquid and Taproot Activation
- BIP70 vs. LNURL
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
lighting-dev
- LN Summit 2021 Notes & Summary/Commentary
- Neutrino, Taproot, and The Evolution of BiPs 157/158
- Removing lnd’s source code from the Lightning specs repository (Resolution)
- A Mobile Lightning User Goes to Pay a Mobile Lightning User…
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Make AddrMan support multiple ports per IP #23306
- Make descriptor wallets by default
- Re-include RBF replacement txs in fee estimation #22539
- p2p: Use legacy relaying to download blocks in blocks-only mode #22340
- Remove -rescan startup parameter #23123
- Allow fundrawtransaction and walletcreatefundedpsbt to take external inputs #17211
LND
- lnrpc+peer: custom peer messages #5346
- Support remote signing over RPC #5689
- Allow skipping PsbtFinalize step during channel funding to support external broadcast #5363
c-lightning
- Pay: take channel capacity into account for route selection #4771
- experimental-websocket-port: option to accept websocket connections on additional port. #4685
- Add htlc dust ceiling #4837