Socratic Seminar #44
Thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Ledger vulnerability disclosure
- Send My: Arbitrary data transmission via Apple’s Find My network
- Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet
- Mint the Future with Taproot Assets v0.2 🌿🔮
- Ark - New layer 2 design
- Miner Fee Gathering Capability (Part 2) – Out of Band Fees
- Security and Performance Analysis of Elliptic Curve Crypto System using Bitcoin Curves
- BSHUNTER: Detecting and Tracing Defects of Bitcoin Scripts
- Amboss - Chain Surveillance Selling Your Data?
- The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces
- Darkpool (tarpit) concept
Miscellaneous
- Ledger Recover: Recover your keys using your identity
- ACINQ: Securing a $100M lightning node
- Mempool Accelerator
- The Genesis Book (Aaron van Wirdum)
- ECB CBDC prototype summary
- Bitcoin Core 25.0 release notes
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- NRW tax office received bitcoin.de customer data
- Binance sperrt Handel mit Privacy Coins in Teilen der EU
- ECB CBDC prototype summary
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Standardisation of an unstructured taproot annex
- ZeroSync: Introducing Validity Proofs to Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr
lighting-dev
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- Proposal for a new mempool design #27677
- Silent Payments finalized BIP
- Implementation in Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Core
- Implement Mini version of BlockAssembler to calculate mining scores #27021
- p2p: Avoid prematurely clearing download state for other peers #27608
- wallet: improve IBD sync time by skipping block scanning prior birth time #27469
- Parallel compact block downloads, take 3 #27626
LND
- multi: accept memo note when opening channel #7668
- sweep+lnrpc: enforce provided fee rate is no less than relay fee #7645