Socratic Seminar #64
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- DLC Factories
- Signal location leak vulnerability
- LDK: Invalid Claims Liquidity Griefing
- Disclosure: LDK Duplicate HTLC Force Close Griefing
- SoK: Time to be Selfless?! Demystifying the Landscape of Selfish Mining Strategies and Models
- Design and Implementation of a Microtransaction System Using the Lightning Network for Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries
- BitMLx: Secure Cross-chain Smart Contracts For Bitcoin-style Cryptocurrencies
- Emulating OP_RAND in Bitcoin
- An Analysis of the Correctness and Computational Complexity of Path Planning in Payment Channel Networks
- Mapping network structures and dynamics of decentralised cryptocurrencies: The evolution of Bitcoin (2009-2023)
- Fastest-possible PoW via Simple DAG
- Bitaxe Firmware (ESP-Miner) v2.5.0: Critical Fix for CSRF Vulnerability
Miscellaneous
- Finney Prize for Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille
- Doom on Ledger Nano S+
- Bitcoin Core Mutation Testing
- CoreDev Retro 2024
- Tether Brings USDt to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Ushering in a New Era of Unstoppable Technology
- OpenSats: Ninth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
- OpenSats: 3 Additional Grants for Bitcoin Core Contributors
- Update on HRF’s Bitcoin Bounty Program: All Bounties Awarded
- Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht
- PKMN_BTTL: A Pokemon Battle Game, Written in Zig and Executed with BitVMX
- DogeReaper
- AnchorWatch Launch
- BTCPayServer Accelerating Bitcoin adoption: 2024 in review & 2025 ambitions
- CoinSwap v0.1 Testnet4 launch
- El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
Network Data
- Fifteen OFAC-sanctioned transactions missing from blocks
- Erlay Simulations
- Mempool.space Block size report
- (New) Stats on compact block reconstructions
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Worldcoin exploited in Berlin
- Czech Central bank wants to hold Bitcoin as reserve
- US court overturns Tornado Cash sanctions in pivotal case for crypto
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Analyzing Mining Pool Behavior to Address Bitcoin Core’s Double Coinbase Reservation Issue
- Emulating OP_RAND
- Contract-level Relative Timelocks (or, let’s talk about ancestry proofs and singletons)
- ZK-gossip for lightning channel announcements
- How to linearize your cluster - A wild Paper from 1989 appears
- Erlay: Overview and current approach
- Which ephemeral anchor script should lightning use?
- Great Consensus Cleanup Revival - Update
- Challenge: Covenants for Braidpool
- Deterministic tx selection for censorship resistance
- BROKEN: Multi-Party Eltoo with bounded settlement
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- OP_CTV Technical Evaluation by Jonas Nick
- Peer storage for nodes to distribute small encrypted blobs. #1110
- BIP375: Sending Silent Payments in PSBTs #1687
Bitcoin Core
- mining: bugfix: Fix duplicate coinbase tx weight reservation #31384
- Miner: never create a template which exploits the timewarp bug #31376
- p2p: track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution #31397
- include verbose “reject-details” field in testmempoolaccept response #28121
- Safegcd-based modular inverses in MuHash3072 #21590