Socratic Seminar #76
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Argo MAC: Garbling with Elliptic Curve MACs
- Ideal group
- Hardware-Friendly Robust Threshold ECDSA in an Asymmetric Model
- BABE: Verifying Proofs on Bitcoin Made 1000x Cheaper
- Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
- Dakar: A CoinJoin forensic software
- OptiBridge: A Trustless, Cost-Efficient Bridge Between the Lightning Network and Ethereum
- CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996
Network Data
Local/Legal
- Tagesschau: Erfüllt Bitpanda die Vorgaben der Finanzaufsicht?
- How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”
Miscellaneous
- Spirals Flint AI Vibe code comunity
- FIBRE Network resurrection
- BTrust BitDevs Playbook
- OpenSats Year In Review
- Bitcoin PIPEs v2: Covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin via Witness Encryption
- NXP SE050 Hardware Bitcoin Wallet
- Bitcoin in Epstein emails
- Orange Dev Tracker
- Kompaktor
- Windfish
- SSB Playground
- Magnolia DLC Oracle
- hArk
- Taproot Quantum Spend Paths
- Citrea Mainnet Launch
- Janusz L2 Reviews
- Amigo
- 39C3 - To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Incremental mutation testing in the Bitcoin Core
- A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks
- Hornet UTXO(1): A custom, constant-time, highly parallel UTXO database
- SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- drop my key from trusted-keys#34517
- Package Relay Project Tracking
- Broadcast own transactions only via short-lived Tor or I2P connections
- p2p: Allow block downloads from peers without snapshot block after assumeutxo validation
- kernel: Add block header support and validation
LND
- rpcserver: use protocol max for fundMax, not maxChanSize#10488
- multi: update close logic to handle re-orgs of depth n-1, where n is num confs - add min conf floor#10331
Core Lightning
Eclair
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- primitives: reject transaction with duplicate inputs#5402
- Add median-time-past (MTP) calculation to CheckPoint#2037
- primitives: reject txs with output sum > MAX_MONEY#5443
- primitives: reject transactions with 0 outputs#5470