Socratic Seminar #58
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- July 9th-10th 2024: Wasabi Wallet Security Incident Disclosure
- Simple Logarithmic-size LSAG signature
- University of Wyoming launches Bitcoin research institute
- Dark Skippy: a method for a malicious signing device to leak secret keys
- regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server
- Incident report: Rootstock peg-in / peg-out service outage on June 24th
- Benchmarking GNNs Using Lightning Network Data
- Bribe & Fork: Cheap Bribing Attacks via Forking Threat
- Adaptor Signatures: New Security Definition and A Generic Construction for NP Relations
- From Slow Propagation to Partition: Analyzing Bitcoin Over Anonymous Routing
- RFC 9591 The Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold (FROST) Protocol for Two‑Round Schnorr Signatures
- Shared-Custodial Password-Authenticated Deterministic Wallets
- Towards a Formal Foundation for Blockchain Rollups
- Unforgeability of Blind Schnorr in the Limited Concurrency Setting
- Circle STARKs
- FROST Federation
Miscellaneous
- COPA vs CSW – Injunctions Published
- Foundry Announces ‘Foundry Donate’ Initiative to Support Open Source Bitcoin Community
- Sixth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
- OpenSats Education Initiative
- Maelstrom Bitcoin grant program
- Taproot Assets Mainnet Launch
- Mt Gox coins finally distributed
- Mempool Accelerator Launch
- Proton Wallet
- Casa: Secure your bitcoin with a YubiKey
- Fedi Launch Event
- Mutiny Wallet shuts down
- Marathon Slipstream
- Satsto.me and TwelveC ash
- Additive RBF batcher
- Stable Channels website
- ZK Proof on Signet
- Bitcoin Dollar
- Block: Welcoming Core Scientific, our first mining chip customer
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Stats on compact block reconstructions
- Introduction to cluster linearization
- Cluster mempool: block building with sub-chunk granularity
- Zawy’s Alternating Timestamp Attack
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- ChillDKG: Distributed Key Generation for FROST
- Draft: FROST signing for BIP340-compatible Threshold Signatures
- BIP94: Testnet4
Bitcoin Core
- Public disclosure of 2 vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core before v22.0
- policy: Add PayToAnchor(P2A), OP_1 <0x4e73> as a standard output script for spending #30352
- Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix #29775
- p2p: For assumeutxo, download snapshot chain before background chain #29519
- assumeutxo: Drop block height from metadata #30598
- assumeutxo: Don’t load a snapshot if it’s not in the best header chain #30320
- policy: enable full-rbf by default #30493
- cluster mempool: cluster linearization algorithm #30126
- cluster mempool: merging & postprocessing of linearizations #30285
- Fee Estimation: change estimatesmartfee default mode to economical #30275
- Wallet: Add max_tx_weight to transaction funding options (take 2) #29523
- wallet: Migrate legacy wallets to descriptor wallets without requiring BDB #26596
LND
Eclair
BDK & LDK
Core Lightning
- BOLT12 Offers implementation series