Socratic Seminar #41
Special thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Polynonce: A Tale of a Novel ECDSA Attack and Bitcoin Tears
- Blind signatures interactive demo
- Two-Round Stateless Deterministic Two-Party Schnorr Signatures From Pseudorandom Correlation Functions
- Flyover: A Repayment Protocol for Fast Bitcoin Transfers over Federated Pegs
- From Reality Keys to Oraclize. A Deep Dive into the History of Bitcoin Oracles
- Practical Security Analysis of Zero-Knowledge Proof Circuits
- tlock: practical timelock encryption from threshold BLS
- Going Mainstream: Cryptocurrency Narratives in Newspapers
- Master Thesis: Bitcoin Network Topology Discovery Using Timing Analysis
- New Records in Collision Attacks on RIPEMD-160 and SHA-256
- Analysis of RIPEMD-160: New Collision Attacks and Finding Characteristics with MILP
- Research on Elliptic Curve Crypto Systemwith Bitcoin Curves – SECP256k1,NIST256p, NIST521p and LLL
- Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme for Secure Organizations’ Bitcoin Wallet Access
- Exploring Unconfirmed Transactions for Effective Bitcoin Address Clustering
- VDHLA: Variable Depth Hybrid Learning Automaton and Its Application to Defense Against the Selfish Mining Attack in Bitcoin
- On the Sustainability of Bitcoin Partitioning Attacks
Network Data
- How Many Bitcoin Confirmations is Enough?
- USD “denominated-ness” of on-chain transactions
- Bitcoin Mining historical Revenue per kWh
Miscellaneous
- Rigly.io
- Seed XOR by Coldcard
- Christoph Ono’s weekly updates
- Sats Names
- c=, a new LSP by Jack Dorseys TPD
- Bluewallet sunsetting lndhub.io
- Nostrocket
- MDK by Block
- Marco Falke steps down as maintainer
- Mempool adds block audits
- PSBT.io, IFTTT for Bitcoin transaction broadcast
- frozenkrill: a minimalist Bitcoin wallet focused on cold storage
- Hashhunt: Human Powered Bitcoin Mining
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Buchvorstellung “Die orange Pille” with Ijoma Mangold
- Steuerbarkeit von Gewinnen aus der Veräußerung von verschiedenen Kryptowährungen (Bitcoin, Ether, Monero)
- Bachelor Thesis: Aspekte zur ertragsteuerlichen Behandlung von Kryptowährungen nach dem deutschen Steuerrecht
- TV-Documentation: Bitcoineros - Das digitale Gold und seine Versprechen
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- BIP for OP_VAULT continued discussion
- Using service bit 24 for utreexo signaling in testnet and signet
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Signing support for Miniscript Descriptors #24149
- wallet: be able to specify a wallet name and passphrase to migratewallet #26595
- assumeutxo: background validation completion #25740
LND
- signrpc: Upgrade to MuSig2 BIP draft v1.0.0rc2, add version flag to RPC #7171
- Pathfinding: take channel capacity into account #5988