Socratic Seminar #74
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- An Independent Security Audit of Bitcoin Core
- Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin
- Golden: Lightweight Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation
- Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths
- When Can You Trust Bitcoin? Value-Dependent Block Confirmation to Determine Transaction Finality
- The Time to Consensus in a Blockchain: Insights into Bitcoin’s “6 Blocks Rule”
- Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
- Incentive Attacks in BTC: Short-Term Revenue Changes and Long-Term Efficiencies
- A spatial analysis of the use of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange
- Bitcoin Hashrate Dynamics: Price, Revenue Correction, and Evolution - A Time-Varying Parameter SVAR Stochastic Volatility Analysis
- Masterthesis: Strategische Nutzung von Bitcoin Mining in Unternehmen
- Shai Hulud Launches Second Supply-Chain Attack
Network Data
Local/Legal
- Bitcoin und Nostr als Werkzeuge des demokratischen Widerstands
- Berlin Manifesto of the World Liberty Congress
- Bericht Libertarismus/extreme Rechte mit Roman Reher, Joana Cotar, Marc Friedrich
- KYC: Volle Verifizierung bei Pocket
- Berlin Bitcoin Mining meetup Thursday, December 11
- Wirecard Scandal: Fresh Leads Point to a Gambling Kingpin
- BTC is money
- Petition to pardon Samourai Wallet devs (case background)
Miscellaneous
- Project 11
- Quantum Doomsday Clock
- RawBit Tool
- Penlock
- Mempal Android App
- Miniscript Studio
- BOSS Challenge: Applications open
- BNOC Forum
- Bitcoin Core Roadmap question
- Keymeld
- Ordiknots
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Consensus bug on NBitcoin: out-of-bound issue in
Remove() - Propagation Delay and Mining Centralization: Modeling Stale Rates
- Disclosure: Critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- Cluster mempool #33629
- init: completely remove -maxorphantx option #33872
- chainparams: remove dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us #33723
LND
Core Lightning
- Fix the long-elusive “sometimes we miss utxo spends” bug. #8735
- Add Experimental no-MPP, Lsp-Trusts-Client LSPS2 Support #8569
- hsmd: fix HSM sent an unknown message type error #8728
Eclair
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- Add support for Testnet4 #4148
- feat(chain): add new list_ordered_canonical_txs method #2027
- Enforce Trampoline Constraints (replacement) #4226