Socratic Seminar #60
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- ARVO: Atlas of Reproducible Vulnerabilities for Open Source Software
- How Much Should I Double Spend My Bitcoin? Game theory of Quantum Mining
- How Chainalysis Made Their Way into Popular Monero Wallets
- Bitcoin Puzzle #66 solved - and stolen by a bot?
- Bitcoin Transaction Behavior Modeling Based on Balance Data
- Privacy Comparison for Bitcoin Light Client Implementations
- Individual Differences in Bitcoin Investment: The Role of Personality, Attitudes, and Knowledge
- 243M$ in BTC stolen via social engineering attack
- Shielded CSV: Private and Efficient Client-Side Validation
- Ross Stevens/Nydig: Bitcoin’s Protection under the First Amendment
- FROST Roundtable 2
- DATUM
- Introducing NOIST: a non-interactive, single-round t-of-n threshold signing protocol
- Lava Loans
- Fix: GenerateNonce(ECPubKey) wasn’t random as expected #1228
- Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series
- Releasing TMUL
- Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review
- Multi-Party Submarine Swaps
- Mercury Layer Vulnerability Disclosures Report
- P2C2T: Preserving the Privacy of Cross-Chain Transfer
- Horcrux: Synthesize, Split, Shift and Stay Alive Preventing Channel Depletion via Universal and Enhanced Multi-hop Payments
- Blind Multisignatures for Anonymous Tokens with Decentralized Issuance
- Survivable Payment Channel Networks
Miscellaneous
- Second: Ark Startup launch
- Ark on bitcoin is here
- Ashigaru Open Source Project
- New Opensats grants
- Brink’s 2023-2024 Annual Report
- Jon Attack funding
- 10101 is shutting down
- Selfie Records
- Is Tor still safe to use?
- Bitmain made too many ASIC miners, and no one is buying
- Shinigami
- Block Mining Beta update
Network Data
- Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools
- Testnet4 consensus failure due to timewarp related “softfork” #30786
- Lightning Nodenamer
- 0-Fee TRUC Transaction
- 0-Fee Lightning Commitment Transaction
- Merge Mining Report
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Kraken removes Lightning support for German clients
- Bundeskriminalamt sizes 47 illegal cryptoplattforms
- Commerzbank offers Bitcoin
- Antwort kleine Anfrage die Linke
- Neue Version “Bitcoin Diplom” Arbeitsbuch
- BTC++ Conference in Berlin about ecash
- Gründung neuer Bitcoin Bundesverband
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Public disclosure of 1 vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core 24.0.1
- Publishing text of 2017-era proposed Bitcoin opcode OP_FFS (Fold Function Stream)
Delving Bitcoin
- Non-disclosure of a consensus bug in btcd
- Hybrid Jamming Mitigation: Results and Updates
- SuperScalar: Laddered Timeout-Tree-Structured Decker-Wattenhofer Factories
- Hardcoded seeds, DNS seeds and Darknet nodes
- Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero-knowledge
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP85: Clarify spec, correct test vectors, add Portuguese language code, add dice application #1600
- Revert “BIP85: Clarify spec, correct test vectors, add Portuguese language code, add dice application” #1674
- Offers #798
- Stratum v2 Auditor Role
Bitcoin Core
- net: Replace libnatpmp with built-in PCP+NATPMP implementation #30043
- Drop -dbcache limit #28358
- Fix peers abruptly disconnecting from AssumeUTXO nodes during IBD #30807
- net: Favor peers from addrman over fetching seednodes #29605
- Analysis of Bitcoind Policy Estimator Effectiveness for Long-Term Fee Estimation
LND
- custom channels 5/5: merge custom channel staging branch into master #8960
- lnwire: add new Gossip 1.75 messages #8044