Socratic Seminar #26
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Mining pools blacklisted by China’s ‘Great Firewall’
- mako - full bitcoin implementation in C
- Squares’ tbDEX liquidity protocol whitepaper
- Blockstream announced Peerswap
- Synonym, a new tether company
- Chainalysis Launches Support for Lightning Network
- Lightning Labs has started the bLIP repository for Lightning improvement proposals
- Looking for Lacunae in Bitcoin Core’s Fuzzing Efforts
- How do Bitcoin Users Manage Their Private Keys?
- Bitcoin and Blockchain Security A Study in Misconceptions
- The Weighted Bitcoin Lightning Network
- Improving Bitcoin Transaction Propagation Efficiency through Local Clique Network
- LightSync: Ultra Light Client for PoW Blockchains
Miscellaneous
- Coinbase aquires BRD wallet
- Bitcoin vs Ethereum – Blockchain Size
- El Salvador & Blockstream announce Bitcoin City and Bitcoin Bond
- New Lightning Terminal Web
- Videos of Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador
- Samuel Dobson/meshcollider steps down
- John Newbery steps down
- Jeremy Rubin’s Bitcoin Advent Calendar
- Plebnet for onboarding Lightning newbies
- Bitwage processes world’S first Bitcoin payroll on Lightning
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, say Swedish regulators
- Interview with Frank Schäffler (FDP) about the new German government regarding Bitcoin/Blockchain
- Sparkassen bereiten Bitcoin-Handel vor
- Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper: Monetary policy and Bitcoin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- bitcoinj fork with Taproot support
- Take 2: Removing the Dust Limit
- A fee-bumping model
- Taproot activates - A time/block line
lighting-dev
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- rpc: getblockfrompeer #20295
- Add minisketch subtree and integrate into build/test #23114
- Full CJDNS support #23077
- Let validateaddress locate error in Bech32 address #16807
- wallet: Make a tr() descriptor by default #22364