Socratic Seminar #33
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Hertzbleed Attack
- RIDDLE: Lightweight anti-Sybil with anonymity in Bitcoin
- TxWithhold Smart Contracts
- Stronger Security for Non-Interactive Threshold Signatures: BLS and FROST
- The “Sidechain Vision” for Bitcoin
- Get off of Chain: Unveiling Dark Web Using Multi-layer Bitcoin Address Clustering
- Nayib Bukele, Bitcoins and Twitter: a nation branding story
- Spatial analysis of global Bitcoin mining
- The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money
- How Brand Hive Minds Thrive: Understanding Bitcoin’s Resilience
- Propagation Delay in Bitcoin Networks: Issues and Countermeasures
Miscellaneous
- Taproot Demonstration
- glozow named bitcoin core maintainer and sipa steps down
- Bitcoin is losing favor on darknet markets
- peerswap.dev
- bolt.observer
- Report from the Bitcoin Delegation in the Central African Republic
- Fact Check: DARPA Funded Report on Blockchain Centralization
- OXT Visualizer Update
- Bitcoin Mining Resources
- Surprisingly, Tail Emission Is Not Inflationary
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Playing with full-rbf peers for fun and L2s security
- Private Payments
- Half-Aggregation of BIP-340 Signatures
lighting-dev
- Inbound channel routing fees
- Onion messages rate-limiting
- Achieving Zero Downtime Splicing in Practice via Chain Signals
- Three Strategies for Lightning Forwarding Nodes
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- Add a -mempoolfullrbf node setting #25353
- p2p: Sync chain more readily from inbound peers during IBD #24171
- p2p: Avoid multiple getheaders messages in flight to the same peer #25454
- psbt: Taproot fields for PSBT #22558
LND
Eclair
BDK & LDK
c-lightning
rust-bitcoin & rust-lightning
- Expose SIGHASH_SINGLE bug in encode_signing_data_to #1024
- Add anti-probing penalty to ProbabilisticScorer #1555
- Allow nodes to be avoided during pathfinding #1550