Socratic Seminar #47
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
- NUCLEUS: Capital-efficient multipeer Lightning payment channels
- DoS: Fake Lightning Channels
- A Review of the Lightning Network’s Evolution: Unraveling Its Present State and the Emergence of Disruptive Digital Business Models
- revised: Bulletproofs++: Next Generation Confidential Transactions via Reciprocal Set Membership Arguments
- simln
- The Illumination of Money: An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador
- FROSTDAO: Collective Ownership of wealth using FROST
- CHAUSSETTE: A Symbolic Verification of Bitcoin Scripts
- Bitcoin electricity consumption: an improved assessment
Miscellaneous
- What are MATT opcodes?
- Open-Sourcing Liquid’s Functionary Code
- Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes (2023)
- Tether stops support for Bitcoin / OmniLayer
- Electrum server performance report (2022)
- Simp-lang - Simplicity DSL POC
- Tell Congress: Stop The Use Of Chainalysis Services
- Coinbase to integrate Lightning
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- BIP-????: The Taproot Assets Protocol
- BIP for Serverless Payjoin
- Scaling Lightning With Simple Covenants
lighting-dev
- Resumable channels using OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK
- Disclosure: Fake channel DoS vector
- Remotely control your lightning node from your favorite HSM
- faster NIKE Sphinx or more secure KEM Sphinx
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- WIP: BIP300 (Drivechains) consensus-level logic
- BIP324 ciphersuite #28008
- p2p: Diversify automatic outbound connections with respect to networks #27213
- rpc: Add importmempool RPC #27460
- Fix potential network stalling bug #27981
LND
Eclair
BDK & LDK
- Add API for constructing blinded payment paths #2412
- Support third-party watchtowers in persistence pipeline #2337
- Work around LND bug 6039 #2507