Socratic Seminar #45

Meetup

Thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!

Special: BIP300/Drivechains

• BIP300
• BIP300 Whiteboard Video

Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research

• Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship
• A Dive Into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures
• Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature
• The many faces of Schnorr

Miscellaneous

• Putting the B in BTC
• Block’s Bitkey “Hardware Wallet” will Violate your Privacy and Security
• Supertestnet MuSig Playground
• Greenlight API goes live
• Nodeless: Accept Bitcoin Payments (Lightning API)
• BIP39 Colors
• PDK: A Payjoin SDK
• CivKit Node
• Phoenix update

Europe/Germany/Berlin

• Betrugsmasche »Tinder-Trading-Scam«

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Some Day Peg: A crazy two-way peg bridging BTC to other chains Raw

lighting-dev

• Proposal: Bundled payments
• Security: BOLT-11 “payment hash” does not commit to payment!

Pull requests

BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals

• ANYPREVOUT without ANYONECANPAY

Bitcoin Core

• mempool / rpc: add getprioritisedtransactions, delete a mapDeltas entry when delta==0 #27501
• wallet: Load database records in a particular order #24914

Eclair

• Record begin and end timestamps for relays #2701

LND

• LND fix for memory leak

BDK & LDK

• Add BumpTransaction event handler #2089
• BOLT 12 Offers message handling support #2294
• Routing to blinded payment paths #2120
• Allow forwarding less than the amount in the onion #2319
• Support MPP Keysend #2156

Core Lightning

• setconfig: new command to set (a few!) config parameters dynamically #6303

Secp256k1

• ElligatorSwift + integrated x-only DH

rust-bitcoin

• script: Add method count_sigops #1890