Socratic Seminar #46
Thanks to Wasabi Wallet for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- LN Metrics - Open Source LN data collection initiative
- Manually (on paper) calculating a public key from a private key
- Waiting for confirmation: a series about mempool and relay policy
- Anatomy of a Bitcoin Heist: The Electrum Atom Malware Saga
- Lightning Creation Games
- Towards a Formal Verification of the Lightning Network with TLA+
- How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic
- Covenants in Bitcoin: A Useful Review Taxonomy
- Towards a trustless bitcoin wallet with miniscript
- PHD thesis about new watchtower FPPW and new payment channel Daric
- TeleBTC: Trustless Wrapped Bitcoin
- Temporal and Geographical Analysis of Real Economic Activities in the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Entropy bug in Libbitcoin Explorer: Milk Sad
Miscellaneous
- HRF Bitcoin Bounty Challenge
- Chris Belcher health situation
- Royllo.org - Taproot Assets Explorer
- ChatBTC
- Frostsnap
- War and Lightning Network
- Mutiny Wallet beta release
- Matador: A Bitcoin-Powered Passthrough Server
- Bitmex: Drivechains
- Galaxy Mining: 2023 Bitcoin Mining Mid-Year Report
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Pull-req to enable Full-RBF by default
- Blinded 2-party Musig2
- BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time
lighting-dev
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- p2p: Restrict self-advertisements with privacy networks to avoid fingerprinting #27411
- bumpfee: Allow the user to choose which output is change #26467
- Rework validation logic for assumeutxo #27746
LND
Eclair
Core Lightning
- renepay: an experimental payment plugin
- splicing: Adds the features needed to enable collaborative splicing & resizing of active channels.
- Taproot wallet support #6035
- Self-pay support. #6399
- Runes migration from commando to lightning #6403