Socratic Seminar #72
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- WISCH: Efficient data signing via correlated signatures
- An empirical evaluation of fuzz targets using mutation testing
- Bitcoin reimagined: A comprehensive study of ordinals and inscriptions protocols for Web3 asset innovation
- BitPriv: A Privacy-Preserving Protocol for DeFi Applications on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Worlds
- Eclair: Preimage Extraction Exploit
- Optimal Threshold Signatures in Bitcoin
- Hornet Node and the Hornet DSL
- Comparative Analysis of Bitcoin Regulation in Latin American Countries
- Quantitative Analysis of Centralization in the Bitcoin Lightning Network Through Centrality Metrics
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
Miscellaneous
- It’s Knot a Serious Project
- All For One & One For All
- A Knotty Irony
- LEAKED: Luke Dashjr Plans Hardfork To “Save Bitcoin”
- OpenTimestamps and Knots/OCEAN
- Why Bitcoiners should support covenant soft forks
- time2build Breetz virtual Hackathon
- PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
- Localhost Transparency report
- ElectrumZ: Minimalistic Electrum server implementation
- Frigate Electrum Server
- OpenSats: Fourteenth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
- Advancements in Ecash
- State of Rootstock Q2 2025
- Ark and Spark are Channel Factories
- My review of the proposed C header for the Bitcoin Core Kernel API
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction (Workbook)
- MultiChannel and MultiPTLC: Towards A Global High-Availability Consistent/Partition-Tolerant Database For Bitcoin Payments
- Measuring minrelaytxfee across the Bitcoin network
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- v30 Release Testing Guide
- docs: Undeprecate datacarrier and datacarriersize configuration options #33453
- Experimental branch with p2p as separate binary
- rpc: fix getblock(header) returns target for tip #33446
- p2p: Increase tx relay rate #28592
- wallet: Identify transactions spending 0-value outputs, and add tests for anchor outputs in a wallet #33268
LND
Eclair
- Use balance estimates from past payments in path-finding #2308
- Remove PaymentWeightRatios from the routing config #3171
- Allow overriding max-closing-feerate with forceclose API #3142
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- Support client_trusts_lsp on LSPS2 #3838
- CanonicalView #2029
- Async send: sender-side #4046
- Async send always-online counterparty side #4045
- Always-online node forward invoice request #4049