Socratic Seminar #49
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Covenants: Examining ScriptPubkeys in Bitcoin Script
- Covenants: Dealing with Amounts in Bitcoin Script
- The Environmental Footprint of Bitcoin Mining Across the Globe: Call for Urgent Action
- Bitcoin Rollups Research (new content)
- PHD thesis: Evolving Bitcoin Custody
- Mixing Solutions in Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems: A Review and Tutorial
- The Centralizing Effects of Private Order Flow on Proposer-Builder Separation
- Durabit: A Bitcoin-native Incentive Mechanism for Data Distribution
- Drivechains: A Detailed Analysis
- One-time and Revocable Ring Signature with Logarithmic Size in Blockchain
- Naysayer proofs
Miscellaneous
- Join Xmas Hardcore Bitcoin Trivia at Stammtisch
- Project Spartacus
- Meet the MDK Hashboard
- Opentimestamps used in elections in Guatemala
- Lightspark Universal Money Address
- LinuxFoundation will stop hosting mailing lists
- BitcoinDev.org
- Doppler - A lightning DSL
- Taproot Assets on Mainnet
- ANNOUNCING THE $12K NIST ELLIPTIC CURVES SEEDS BOUNTY
- Payjoin for a Better Bitcoin Future
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
lighting-dev
- Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 “All your mempool are belong to us”
- Batch exchange withdrawal to lightning requires covenants
- Removing channel reserve for mobile wallet users
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- coinstats, assumeutxo: fix hash_serialized2 calculation #28685
- Make miniscript GetWitnessSize accurate for tapscript #28651
- v26.0 Testing #28718