Socratic Seminar #53
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
We will have Rene Pickhardt as a guest presenter with a short talk on his latest research on lightning network limitiations in the form of likelyhood of payment possibility:
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Breaking BFT: Quantifying the Cost to Attack Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Bitcoin research price by Chaincode labs
- A Bitcoin Transaction Analyzing and Tracking Mechanism in Specified Network Zone
- Topology Discovery within the Bitcoin Network
- A Better Proof-of-Work Fork Choice Rule
- T.I.D.E.S. - A Fair Bitcoin Mining Pool Reward System
- Modular Indexer: Fully User-Verified Execution Layer for Meta-Protocols on Bitcoin
- My two Bitcoins? Implementation of Double-Spending on Fast Bitcoin Payments
- Graph Visualization for Blockchain Data
- Partial Pre-Image Attack on Proof-of-Work based Blockchains
- Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
- High-Bandwidth Node Selection in Compact Block Relay
- Reducing CO2 emissions in a peer-to-peer distributed payment network: Does geography matter in the lightning network?
- Time-Averaged Analysis of Selfish Mining in Bitcoin
- A Holistic Approach for Bitcoin Confirmation Times & Optimal Fee Selection
- HARTS: High-Threshold, Adaptively Secure, and Robust Threshold Schnorr Signatures
- On the Dark Side of the Coin: Characterizing Bitcoin use for Illicit Activities
- HARTS: High-Threshold, Adaptively Secure, and Robust Threshold Schnorr Signatures
- Bitcoin adoption in online payments: examining consumer intentions and word-of-mouth recommendations
Miscellaneous
- 9 BTC stolen with fake Exodus wallet in Ubuntu appstore
- Satoshi-Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Twenty Two Portal hardware wallet from Alekos Filini
- OpenSats: Long term funding for Nostr devs
- CoreDev Retro Survey 2023
- Rethinking Lightning
- Pix in Brazil: A Field Study for the Bitcoin Community
- Let coinbase pay your on-chain fees
- GroupHug Server - PSBT batching
- Scaling Bitcoin Apps with NWC
- Crypto ‘Mixer’ Convicted of Money Laundering on Bitcoin Fog
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Mempool Incentive Compatibility
- Chia Lisp For Bitcoiners
- ASMap creation process
- GitLab Backups for Bitcoin Core repository
- Basic vault prototype using OP_CAT
- Revisiting BIP21
- V3 and some possible futures
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Voting on Priority Projects for 28.0 #29465
- wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm #27877
- p2p: Don’t process mutated blocks #29412
LND
Eclair
- Abandon transactions whose ancestors have been double spent #2818
- Activate dual funding by default #2825
- Allow plugins to set a dual funding contribution #2829