Socratic Seminar #77
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Nested MuSig2
- Lattice HD Wallets: Post-Quantum BIP32 Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets from Lattice Assumptions
- sqisign
- Binohash: Transaction Introspection Without Softforks
- Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025
- On the Effectiveness of Mempool-based Transaction Auditing
- Fix the money, fix the world: bitcoin as techno-libertarian religion
- GPU-Accelerated Bitcoin Key Recovery from Weak Entropy Sources
- Unfaithful Claims: Breaking 6 zkVMs
Network Data
Local/Legal
- FAZ: Milliarden-Steuerprivileg für den Bitcoin
- South Korea: National Tax Service Coins Stolen Twice After Mnemonic Code Leak
- Polis closes
Miscellaneous
- Proposal: Consensus rule to recover 79,956 BTC stolen from MtGox
- Knots Lies
- Knots bug
- Bitcoin Core Github Stats
- Proof of work: what Bitcoin mining really does
- Hierarchical determinism: how Bitcoin’s HD wallets are born
- Brink Fuzzing Infra Dashboard
- Sigbash v2
- First BIP54 block
- Mastering Taproot
- Programming Lightning
- River Bitcoin Adoption 2026
- Mitigating The Impact Of The Quantum Freeze
- L402Apps
- South Korean crypto exchange races to recover $40bn of bitcoin sent to customers by mistake
- Open-Source Agents Need to Get Serious About Payments
- Alby Bitcoin Payments Agent Skill
- Lightning Agent Tools
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- BIP-352: Limiting the number of per-group recipients (K_max)
- BIP Draft: 24 bits for nVersion nonce space instead of 16
- Algorithm Agility for Bitcoin to maintain security in the face of quantum and classic breaks in the signature algorithms
- The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin
Delving Bitcoin
- Writing Fuzz Targets for Wallets: Avoiding Known Issues
- Introducing UltrafastSecp256k1: A Multi-Architecture Exploration of Secp256k1 Optimizations
- The future of the Bitcoin Core GUI
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP442: OP_PAIRCOMMIT #1699
- BIP128: Timelock-Recovery Storage Format #2068
- BIP 360 - Pay to Merkle Root (P2MR) #1670
- BIP 89: Chain Code Delegation for Private Collaborative Custody #2004
Bitcoin Core
- Add a “tx output spender” index #24539
- build: Embedded ASMap: Build binary dump header file #28792
- rpc,net: Add private broadcast RPCs #34329
- mining: Break compatibility with existing IPC mining clients #34568
- Cluster mempool: SFL cost model (take 2) #34616
LND
Core Lightning
Eclair
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- Support payments for less than the total MPP value #4373
- Add spent/created_txouts to SPK and Keychain TxOut indexes #2081
- Prevent HTLC double-forwards, prune forwarded onions #4303
- Default to anchors and remove automatic channel acceptance #4354