Socratic Seminar #54
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- ViaBTC’s mutated blocks without witness data
- Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC’s 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message
- Introducing SRI 1.0.0 - the most important milestone in our Stratum V2 journey!
- ASIC Ultraboost and ASIC EnhancedBoost
- Efficient and Reliable Service Detection on Bitcoin
- Statistical Confidence in Mining Power Estimates for PoW Blockchains
- Bitcoin MiCA Whitepaper
- 51% Attack via Difficulty Increase with a Small Quantum Miner
- First practical SHA-256 collision for 31 steps
- CVE-2024-3094: Timeline of the xz open source attack
- IMF: A Primer on Bitcoin Cross-Border Flows
Miscellaneous
- BitCan: DIY Bitcoin Seed Storage
- utxo-teleport is an implementation of Chris Belcher’s coinswap
- New HRF grants
- Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
- Phoenixd Server
- Laanwj’s blog about CSW case
- Mara pool funny block
- Bitkey review
- Hedgehog
- SigBash
- BitMEXResearch: Satoshis 2014 email hack
- TwentyTwo HWW
- COPA closing arguments vs CSW
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments results in financial paternalism
- Einzelfragen zur ertragsteuerrechtlichen Behandlung von virtuellen Währungen und von sonstigen Token
- Bitvavo will nach Deutschland expandieren
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- BTC Lisp as an alternative to Script
- BIP324 Proxy: easy integration of v2 transport protocol for light clients (PoC)
- Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- net: support unix domain sockets for -proxy and -onion #27375
- p2p: Allow whitelisting manual connections #27114
- policy: enable sibling eviction for v3 transactions #29306
- wallet: track mempool conflicts with wallet transactions #27307
- Mempool util: Add RBF diagram checks for single chunks against clusters of size 2 #29242