Socratic Seminar #78
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Isogenies
- Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments
- Bitrefill hacked
- Bachelor thesis: Entwicklung eines Vertriebsmodells für Bitcoin
- DIBA: Effective Transaction Topology-Based Detection of Illicit Bitcoin Addresses
- BitMEX Research: Attack Blocks
- Purify
- Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities: Resource Estimates and Mitigations
- Shor’s algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits
- SHRIMPS: 2.5 KB post-quantum signatures across multiple stateful devices
- BitSov: A Composable Bitcoin-Native Architecture for Sovereign Internet Infrastructure
Network Data
- Two block reorg and delayed relay
- DNS Seeder Analysis
- Stale block dataset
- Largest ever absolute difficulty increase
Local/Legal
Miscellaneous
- SuperScalar
- Production Ready
- Localhost research: Transparency Report 003
- How Wallet Fingerprints Damage Payjoin Privacy
- Am I exposed block explorer
- Brink’s 2025 Engineering Impact Report
- Building Bitcoin Through In-Person Developer Retreats
- Bitcoin hardware wallet with metal punch card
- OpenSats: 5 Grants to Strengthen Bitcoin Development
- OpenSats: Seventeenth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
- Bitcoin++ Exploits Hackathon
- VPACK
- Park
- Bitcoin knowledge base
- Chicago Bitcoin Collective
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- Bump dbcache to 1 GiB #34692
- tor: enable PoW defenses for automatically created hidden services #33414
- kernel: Add API getter functions for timelock fields (nLockTime, nSequence)
- bitcoin-cli: Add -ipcconnect option #32297