Socratic Seminar #59
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers
- BitVM2 groth16 spec
- Engineering a backdoored bitcoin wallet
- rust-miniscript vulnerability disclosure (DoS/Stack Overflow) - CVE-2024-44073
- Optimizing Big Integer Multiplication on Bitcoin: Introducing w-windowed Approach
- Permissionless Verifiable Information Dispersal (Data Availability for Bitcoin Rollups)
- ArtiPACKED: Hacking Giants Through a Race Condition in GitHub Actions Artifacts
- SoK: Bitcoin Layer Two (L2)
- DiFastBit: Transaction Differentiation Scheme to Avoid Double-Spending for Fast Bitcoin Payments
- Masters Thesis: Shortcomings of the MiCA Regulation: A Critical Analysis
- Multi-class Bitcoin mixing service identification based on graph classification
- ORBITAAL: A Temporal Graph Dataset of Bitcoin Entity-Entity Transactions
- PhD thesis: Bitcoin as a Sustainable Polycentric Digital Infrastructure
- Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain
- PhD thesis: Privacy and Usability Aspects of Public Blockchains
- Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin
- The Prohibition of Cryptocurrency in Pakistan and its Justification under Sharia
Miscellaneous
- OpenSats grands for Bitcoin Core
- Coinbase announces cbBTC
- EL Tor
- OP_CAT arguments bounty - Call for Proposals
- Prevent the CATastrophe
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Bafin Razzia gegen Bitcoinautomaten
- Kleine Anfrage Bundestag Die Linke
- Kein Handel mit klimaschädlichen Kryptowährungen bei der ZKB
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Draft: v28 Release Testing Guide
- build: Introduce CMake-based build system #30454
- build: Remove Autotools-based build system #30664
- blockstorage: XOR blocksdir *.dat files #28052
- validation: assumeutxo params mainnet #28553
- descriptors: Be able to specify change and receiving in a single descriptor string #22838
LND
Eclair
- Wake up wallet nodes before relaying messages or payments #2865
- Allow selecting coins in sendcoins #8955
BDK & LDK
- wallet: Enable support for single descriptor wallets #1533
- tx-sync: Protect against Core’s Merkle leaf node weakness #3215