Socratic Seminar #51
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Statistical and clustering analysis of attributes of Bitcoin backbone nodes
- Terrapin Attack: Breaking SSH Channel Integrity By Sequence Number Manipulation
- Node Performance Tests 2023
- V3 Transactions Review
- Maypoles: Lightning Striking Twice
- Decentralized Opinion Leadership: A Study of Crypto Influencers in the Twitter Discourse on Bitcoin
- Non-Intrusive Balance Tomography Using Reinforcement Learning in the Lightning Network
- Rational Economic Behaviours in the Bitcoin Lightning Network
- CPU usage of peers
- Comparing the Lightning Network to validia chains and validity rollups
- AI generated Bitcoin Core Wiki-style documentation
- Mercury Layer
- Bitcoin Layer Two Scaling Solutions:Lightening Payment Channels Network Comprehensive Review, Mechanisms, Challenges, Open Issues and Future Research Directions
- Feldman’s Verifiable Secret Sharing for a Dishonest Majority
Miscellaneous
- PlebLab Top Builder Hackathon
- OpenSats Grants
- HRF grants 500k$
- The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
- Lampo - LDK based Lightning Node
- JAN3 Aqua wallet
- BitVaulty wallet
- LN Symetry Recap
- Bitcoin Elftrace
- Ark Developer Hub
- Introduce sCrypt: a Layer-1 Smart Contract Framework for BTC
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- V3 Transactions are still vulnerable to significant tx pinning griefing attacks
- Follow-up on Delving Bitcoin
lighting-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Denial-of-service bugs in LND’s channel update gossip handling
- Package aware Fee estimator post cluster mempool
- GutterGuard and CoinGrinder Simulation results
- Aggregate delegated exit for L2 pools
- Unspendable keys in descriptors
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
LND
- missioncontrol: add invalid onion blinding handling for blinded paths #8095
- routing: Add Validation for Decoding Blinded Paths #8142
Eclair
BDK & LDK
Core Lightning
- Force cltv field inclusion in BOLT 11 invoice #6957
- Gossip cleanup part 1: Removing reliance on private gossip messages #6869