Socratic Seminar #39
Special thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring the food for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
- Effective Selfish Mining Defense Strategies to Improve Bitcoin Dependability
- Three Birds with One Stone: Efficient Partitioning Attacks on Interdependent Cryptocurrency Networks
- Glimpse: On-Demand, Cross-Chain Communication for Efficient DeFi Applications on Bitcoin-based Blockchains
- HotGate : trustless cross-chain settlement protocol
- BlindHub: Bitcoin-Compatible Privacy-Preserving Payment Channel Hubs Supporting Variable Amounts
- A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage
- Daric: A Storage Efficient Payment Channel with Punishment Mechanism
- Overseas Transaction Fees: Sending Money via Bitcoin vs. Banks
- Topological Evolution Analysis of Payment Channels in the Lightning Network
Miscellaneous
- Bitcoin Conferences 2023 List
- nostr got 14BTC funding from Jack Dorsey
- BDK/LDK First PR Bounty
- Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry from here
- Bitcoin hashrate drops nearly 40% as deadly U.S. storm unplugs miners
- Honeybadger Wallet by Nunchuk
- Liana Wallet by Wizardine (Revault Team)
- Summer of Bitcoin Internship Experience Interviews
- Lukedashjr lost his Bitcoin and PGP Key compromised
- Lopp’s Bitcoin 2022 Annual Review
- The architecture behind eclair
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- OP_VAULT: a new vault proposal
- bitcoin-inquistion 23.0: evaluating soft forks on signet
- At least 17% of Bitcoin Core 24.x listening nodes are running full-rbf
lighting-dev
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- POLICY: Relax MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE to 65 non-witness bytes #26265
- rpc, gui: bumpfee signer support #21576
- rpc: Enable wallet import on pruned nodes and add test #24865
LND
- Invoices that are paid multiple times do not reflect their full amount paid #2208
- Payments and invoices filtering by creation date #7159