Socratic Seminar #63
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- BIP-Draft: Redefinition of the Bitcoin Unit to the Base Denomination
- PhD thesis: Lars Ruchti: Die Regulierung von Kryptowährung als verfassungsrechtliches Problem
- Transaction flows and holding time scaling laws of bitcoin
- BitVM: Quasi-Turing Complete Computation on Bitcoin
- Master Thesis: Entwicklung einer modularen Software für den einfachen und sicheren Bitcoin-Handel via Kassensystem und mobiler App
- The First Practical Collision for 31-Step SHA-256
- Un-FE’d Covenants: Char-ting a new path to Emulated Covenants via BitVM Integrity Checks
- Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
- Protecting Quantum Procrastinators with Lifted Signatures: a Case Study in Cryptocurrencies
- Push-Button Verification for BitVM Implementations
- An Exposition of Pathfinding Strategies Within Lightning Network Clients
Miscellaneous
- CoreDev Meeting Notes
- CUSF
- Bitcoin Wildlife Sanctuary
- Opensats 2024 year in review
- Blockstream Jade Plus Hardware wallet
- Bitcoin year in review 2024 by Jameson Lopp
- BITCOIN CORE’S LOSS OF FOCUS
- Radpool
- Four takeaways from OP_NEXT
- ZK runtime calculator
- Ark Explorer
- Lightning Routing Replayer
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Reiterating centralized coinjoin (Wasabi & Samourai) deanonymization attacks
- Trivial QC signatures with clean upgrade path
Delving Bitcoin
- Disclosure: irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions
- Channel depletion, LN Topology, Cycles and rational behavior of nodes
- Transitory Soft Forks for Consensus Cleanup Forks
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP348: OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK #1535
- BIP374: Discrete Log Equality Proofs (DLEQ) #1689
- bLIP 52: JIT Channel Negotiation (LSPS2) #54
- bLIP 50: LSP Spec Transport Layer (LSPS0) #52
Bitcoin Core
Eclair
rust-bitcoin & rust-lightning
- Tweak historical scoring model PDF and default penalties #3495
- Batch on-chain claims more aggressively per channel #3340