Socratic Seminar #35
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Channel Jamming Book
- Mempool Design and Challenges
- Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments
- RFC: Losing your keys without losing your coins
- AskCrypto - New Forum to discuss Cryptography Papers
- Demo: Blind Schnorr Signature
- LDK: Announcing Rapid Gossip Sync
- TOR: Arti 1.0 released
- US Whitehouse: Crypto Assets and Climate Report
- Pikachu: Securing PoS Blockchains from Long-Range Attacks by Checkpointing into Bitcoin PoW using Taproot
- CredibleConfessions
- BLS and announcement free DLCs
Miscellaneous
- Vinteum - Open Source Bitcoin development funding in Brazil
- Wladimir van der Laan steps down as Core Maintainer
- EFF: Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
- Tadge Dryja joins Lightspark
- BIP Bounty
- Greg Maxwell on Craig Wright vs. Hodlnaut case
- Mempool.Space: Lightning Explorer
- This Month In Bitcoin Privacy August 2022
- NYDIG Lightning Accelerator
- Losing your keys without losing your coins
- 10% BTC hashrate pool: Poolin Liquidity issues
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Bafin-Direktor warnt Banken vor Bitcoin
- Peach Bitcoin - Mobile P2P Exchange
- Bitcoin psychologische Studie
- BitcoinOps: WIP: Style guide for german translations
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format
- On a new community process to specify covenants
- New Silent Payment version
- More uses for CTV
lighting-dev
- Proposal: Add support for proxying p2p connections to/from LND
- Supporting a custodial user who wishes to withdraw all sats from the account…
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Call for Maintainer: P2P & Networking
- refactor: Replace BResult with util::Result
- p2p: Implement anti-DoS headers sync #25717
- rpc/wallet: add simulaterawtransaction RPC #22751
- Add rawtr() descriptor for P2TR with specified (tweaked) output key #23480
- RPC: allow to track coins by parent descriptors #25504
- I2P: add support for transient addresses for outbound connections #25355
LND
- multi: use taproot errwhere applicable for change/delivery/tower addresses #6810
- lnrpc+lnwallet: adds listaddresses RPC #6596
Eclair
- Add support for the signet test network #2387
- Implement the interactive-tx protocol #2273
- Support DNS hostnames in node announcements #2234
- Dual funding RBF support #2275
BDK & LDK
- Add a custom signer for hardware wallets #682
- Onion messages v1 #1503
- Get balance in categories #640