Socratic Seminar #43
Please note that we are changing our location (now c-base) and rhythm (now second Wednesday of the month) starting with this event.
Thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Special: Bitcoin Energy Consumption
- New Insights On Bitcoin Mining And Sustainability
- netpositive.money sources
- Bitcoin network power demand estimations
- Green your bitcoin
- The case for methane mining
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- bitdrain: remote p2p bandwidth/cpu overage financial attack against bitcoin, dogecoin, etc.
- Tbdxxx: alternative second-layer scaling approach
- LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks
- CoreDev Meeting Notes
- Go: A cryptographic near miss
Miscellaneous
- Intel Discontinues Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips, No Future Gens Announced
- Update on Blocks Bitcoin mining ASIC program
- New Electrum release with new Android App
- Blockstream Jade Firmware on DIY hardware
- Chainalysis: Bitcoin in War: OP_RETURN Callouts of Russian Military Bitcoin Addresses Point to Blockchains’ Growing Role in Geopolitical Conflict
- Opensats receives $10m in funding, open for applications
- Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
- Mullvad Browser
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- EU-Parlament besiegelt Aus für anonyme Kryptozahlungen
- The EU’s new MiCA framework for crypto-assets - the one regulation to rule them all
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Proposal to Remove BIP35 P2P ‘mempool’ Message
- Vaults in the MATT framework
- On adaptor security (in protocols)
- Civ Kit: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Market System
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- mempool: disallow txns under min relay fee, even in packages #26933
- Add pool based memory resource #25325
- contrib: allow multi-sig binary verification v2 #27358
LND
- watchtower: start using the DeleteSession message #7069
- contractcourt: add mempool watcher to notify mempool events #7564
Eclair
BDK & LDK
- Implement pending claim rebroadcast on force-closed channels #2208
- Only disable channels ~10 min after disconnect, rather than one #2198