Socratic Seminar #27
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Disclosing Shamir’s Secret Sharing vulnerabilities and announcing ZKDocs
- Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022
- Short Paper: What Peer Announcements Tell Us About the Size of the Bitcoin P2P Network
- Analysis and Probing of Parallel Channels in the Lightning Network
- Short Paper: On the Claims of Weak Block Synchronization in Bitcoin
- Security and performance evaluation of master node protocol based reputation blockchain in the bitcoin network
- Short Paper: A Centrality Analysis of the Lightning Network
Miscellaneous
- Learning Bitcoin from the Commandline translations Portuguese and Spanish
- Podcast: Bitcoin Explained Compact Blocks
- Nostr
- A Bitcoiner’s Vision for the Web 3.0
- Writing a Bitcoin Book for Policymakers
- Krux
- Lightning Jet Rebalancer
- The Bitcoin Machine
- HRF Lightning Grants
- CardCoins Enables LN Support for Users Buying Bitcoin with Cash
- Hundreds Of El Salvador Citizens Report Their Bitcoins Are disappearing From State Owned Chivo Wallet
- Binance converts taproot->segwit. User loses funds.
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Proposal: Full-RBF in Bitcoin Core 24.0
- Pre-BIP: Fee Accounts
- Bitcoin Advent Calendar: Decentralized Coordination Free Mining Pools
- BIP-119 Deployment and Review Workshops
- Stumbling into a contentious soft fork activation attempt
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BOLT-02+09: introduce feature bit to gate new channel_type feature - 44/45 #906
- BIP 52: Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW #1126
- Add BIP nsequence anti-fee-snipe #1269
Bitcoin Core
- validation: mempool validation and submission for packages of 1 child + parents #22674
- docs: RBF policy and mempool limit exemptions #23711
- BIP 174: PSBT version, proprietary, and xpub fields #17034
- Expose block filters over REST #17631
- Address type dropdown, add Taproot (Receive tab) #459
- Update libsecp256k1 subtree to current master #23383
- build, qt: Use Android NDK r23 LTS #23677
- tracing: utxocache tracepoints #22902
- test: Let test_runner.py start multiple jobs per timeslot #23799
- Add warnings to createmultisig and addmultisig if using uncompressed keys #23113
- test: replace hashlib.ripemd160 with an own implementation #23716
- PSBT: hash preimages fields by darosior #23718
- build, Android: fix GUI not loading on Qt 5.15 #23757