Socratic Seminar #75
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Bitmex: 64 byte transactions
- Making Bitcoin Speak Human
- Dissertation: Kryptografisches Vermögen und der Erbfall
- Geolocated Lightning Network topology snapshots: A dataset covering 2019–2023
- Improved Semi-Free-Start Collision Attacks on RIPEMD-160
- How And Why We Hacked Cypherock Hardware Wallet: The Full Story
- Blockstream Jade Security Disclosure
- Sabotaging Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Security
- Toward Thermodynamic Reservoir Computing: Exploring SHA-256 ASICs as Potential Physical Substrates
- Efficient Bitcoin Meta-Protocol Transaction and Data Discovery Through nLockTime Field Repurposing
- Determining Blockchain Transaction Timing and Fee with Observable Mempools
- Bitcoin-IPC: Scaling Bitcoin with a Network of Proof-of-Stake Subnets
- Wallet Migration Failure May Delete Unrelated Wallet Files In Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1
Network Data
Local/Legal
Miscellaneous
- OpenSats canary
- Bitmap minter
- 8M investment in Speedwallet
- Bitcoin Design Impact Initiatives 2026
- Making Bitcoin speak human
- Signingroom: Stateless Bitcoin multisig coordination layer
- Optech Year-in-Review
- Bindex
- Small-Time Crypto Investors Are Facing Violent Attacks
- Fuzzamoto: Introduction
- Distributed Charge - EV Now Available For Public Testing
- 64-byte Transactions
- Fedi goes open source
- Take the Money and Run (OneCoin TV show)
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Understanding and Mitigating a OP_CTV Footgun: The Unsatisfiable UTXO
- OP_CC: A simple introspection opcode to enable cheaper consolidations
- Modifying BIP54 to Support Future nTime Soft Fork
- Ark as a Channel Factory: Compressed Liquidity Management for Improved Payment Feasibility
- Vanadium: A Virtualized Secure Enclave for Hardware Signing Devices
- Building a vault using blinded co-signers
Pull requests
Bitcoin Core
- Add sedited to trusted-keys #34236
- Wallet migration bug
- Bitcoin Core 30.2 release
- wallet: fix unnamed legacy wallet migration failure #34156
- wallettool: fix unnamed createfromdump failure walletsdir deletion #34215
- Replace cluster linearization algorithm with SFL #32545
- rest: allow reading partial block data from storage #33657