Socratic Seminar #73
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Beholder Signatures
- BATTLE for Bitcoin: Capital-Efficient Optimistic Bridges with Large Committees
- Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
- Hard forks, hard questions: Unraveling the microstructure effects on Bitcoin’s return, volume, and volatility
- Analysis of Input-Output Mappings in Coinjoin Transactions with Arbitrary Values
- Cross-chain Lightning Trades: Getting the Advantages of a Custodial Exchange while Keeping Your Assets
- B-SSL: Bitocin Secure Signing Layer
- Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals?
- Bitcoin Research day
- OTS-PC: OTS-based Payment Channels for the Lightning Network
- TEE.fail
Network Data
Europe/Germany/Berlin
- Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Richtlinie (EU) 2023/2226
- Berlin Freedom Week
- SPD Seeheimer Kreis wants to abolish 1-year tax free regulation
- AFD-Antrag im Bundestag: Strategisches Potenzial von Bitcoin erkennen
Miscellaneous
- New Trezor Safe 7 with TROPIC01, Bluetooth, bigger screen, battery
- TROPIC01 repository
- Tether donates USD250k to OpenSats for operations
- Bitcoin for Signal initiative
- Lightspark Grid API
- Tether WDK
- $15 billion seized by US originates from Iran/China bitcoin miner “theft”
- HRF grant
- LNHANCE Website
- CoreDev Transcripts October 2025
- NUT NOVEMBER A month-long hackathon for Cashu builders
- Lawyers call Bitcoin Core v30 CSAM concerns ‘overblown’
- Arké MacOS prototype
- Arkade.money
- The State of Bitcoin Mining in Russia
- papa-swap
- https://www.therage.co/keonne-rodriguez-samourai-sentenced/
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade
- OP_STARK_VERIFY - Native STARK Proof Verification in Bitcoin Script
- Determining BlockTemplate Fee Increase Using Fee Rate Diagram
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP-444: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork
- BIP-444 Airdrop
- BIP???: Chain Code Delegation for Private Collaborative Custody
Bitcoin Core
- wallet: Be able to receive and spend inputs involving MuSig2 aggregate keys #29675
- kernel: Introduce C header API #30595
- cluster mempool: control/optimize TxGraph memory usage #33157
- Fix tiebreak when loading blocks from disk (and add tests for comparing chain ties) #29640
LND
Core Lightning
- BOLT12 recurrence spec update #8398
- Giant tx fix #8639
- Fix injectpayonion/sendonion crash on malformed onion reply from direct peer. #8597
Eclair/Phoenix
- New Phoenix with Taproot
- Remove support for non-anchor channels #3173
- Fix race in PeerManager read pausing. #4168