Socratic Seminar #56
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Bitcoin’s Precarious Position
- FE’d Up Covenants
- Securing Lightning Channels against Rational Miners
- Security of the Secp256k1 Elliptic Curve used in the Bitcoin Blockchain
- Preventing 51% Attack By Using Consecutive Block Limits In Bitcoin
- A Framing Contest Between Institutional Actors on Crypto-Asset Policymaking in the EU
- Targeted Nakamoto: A Bitcoin Protocol to Balance Network Security and Energy Consumption
- BitVMX: A CPU for Universal Computation on Bitcoin
- Channel Balance Interpolation in the Lightning Network via Machine Learning
Miscellaneous
- Penlock
- Silentium - Silent Payments POC Light Client
- Silent Payments support in Cake Wallet
- Silent Payments Website
- Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund
- Vitalik reviews blocksize war books
- Wasabi Wallet 2.0.8 with custom coordinator
- blindbitd: A Bip352 silent payment wallet which runs as daemon
- ValidiTEE: a Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) service that runs inside a secure enclave
- Bitcoin Core vulnerability disclosure policy discussions report
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Testnet4 BIP draft
- Signing a Bitcoin Transaction with Lamport Signatures (no changes needed)
- Utreexod beta release
Delving Bitcoin
- Ecash TIDES using Cashu and Stratum v2
- Anonymous usage tokens from curve trees or autct
- Stable Channels - peer-to-peer dollar balances on Lightning
- Upgrading Existing Lightning Channels
- Proof-of-work based signet faucet
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP: 337 Compressed Transactions
- Bitcoin Core Disclosure Policy draft
- BIP352 Light Client Specification (WIP)
- Define blip-0032, DNSSEC proof querying over onion messages #32
- BIP 347: OP_CAT in Tapscript #1525
Bitcoin Core
- Autotools vs CMake Feature Parity Table
- rpc: Optimize serialization and enhance metadata of dumptxoutset output #29612
- policy: restrict all TRUC (v3) transactions to 10kvB #29873
- wallet: Implement independent BDB parser #26606
- p2p: index TxOrphanage by wtxid, allow entries with same txid #30000
- validation: don’t clear cache on periodic flush: >2x block connection speed #28233