Socratic Seminar #40
Special thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring the food for this very romantic Valentines Day meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Multiple Linux Backdoors Discovered Targeting Bitcoin Core Developer — Technical Analysis
- Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model and Secure Element Use
- Why bitcoin needs covenants
- Inscriptions launch on mainnet (including controversy)
- Bitmex Research: Ordinals Data
- BTCPay Server CVE-2022-32984 Vulnerability disclosure affecting BTCPay Server V1.3.0 through V1.5.3
- Lightning benchmark
- Lightning for Everyone in Any App: Lightning as a Service via the Breez SDK
- Cashabi
Miscellaneous
- SWIFT payments network access cut to crypto exchanges
- Nutstash Cashu Wallet
- Explaining Streamchain
- Opening and announcing a pre-taproot LN channel
- Technical Bitcoin Search
- High Availability Node POC
- Laanwj: Of regrets
- Scribsat for Ghost sites
- Coldcard Q1
- LocalBitcoins shuts down
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Gesundes Geld Werbekampagne
- Antwort kleine Anfrage an Bundesregierung bzgl. Bitcoin
- Draft report European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets (BUDG)
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Debate: 64 bytes in OP_RETURN VS taproot OP_FALSE OP_IF OP_PUSH
- Purely off-chain coin colouring
- Why Full-RBF Makes DoS Attacks on Multiparty Protocols Significantly More Expensive
lighting-dev
- A security review of Validating Lightning Signer architecture and code
- Async payments proof-of-payment: a wishlist for researchers
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- Staking Credentials Architecture for Lightning
- BIP329 - Wallet Labels Export Format
- extension-bolt: simple taproot channels
- ASMap in Bitcoin Core releases/ASMap data sources
- Theoretical ASMap deployment for v25.0 release
Bitcoin Core
- p2p: Make stalling timeout adaptive during IBD #25880
- Reduce default mempool size in -blocksonly mode #26471
- rpc: Return accurate results for scanblocks #26325
LND
- Sign/Verify messages and signatures for single addresses #7231
- multi: add sqlite backend option #7252
Eclair
BDK & LDK
Core Lightning
- hsmd: add preapprove invoice and keysend messages #5821
- sql plugin #5679
- 100k peers project #5849
- Offers compat fixes #5892