Socratic Seminar #79
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash
- Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB)
- Introducing THINCS
- Inertial Mining: Equilibrium Implementation of the Bitcoin Protocol
- The Stakeholder Equilibrium: Bitcoin Core As Live Player
- NIST: Additional SLH-DSA Parameter Sets for Limited Signature Use Cases
- Temporary Power Adjusting Withholding Attack
- A Model and Estimation of the Bitcoin Transaction Fee
- Pruning Hypertrees for the Lax and Lazy
- Financial micro-incentives and internet discourse: Evidence from a Bitcoin based discussion platform
- Ledger hardware implant teardown
- localhost: Post Quantum Cryptography Group
- Litecoin Fork/Bug Postmortem
- Two new Electrum security advisories
- bisq bug
Network Data
- Current BIP-110 signaling
- BIP-54: Block propagation and validation duration during slow-to-validate blocks on Signet
Local/Legal
- Deutsche Börse Group erwirbt Beteiligung an Kraken für 200 Millionen US$
- Grüne: Entwurf eines Gesetzes zum Schließen einer Gerechtigkeitslücke bei der Besteuerung von Kryptowerten
- Linke: Kryptowerte streng regulieren und gerecht besteuern
- Frank Schäffler (FDP) in Welt: Jetzt greift der Staat nach dem Bitcoin
- Bitcoinsteuer.lol
Miscellaneous
- RIP Bitnodes
- Ecash.com - BIP300 Fork
- Annoucement
- Fuzzamoto: Non-Determinism
- Who wrote Bitcoin?
- Spiral: Metacognition is the AI Skill of the future. Always has been.
- BitMex: Avoiding An Unnecessary Quantum Freeze
- Movie: Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi
- Tether announces MDK, Bitcoin mining development kit
- New BitKey with screen
- New Blockstream Jade Core
- Clara now part of Alloc Init
- Bitcoin research price 2026 nomination
- Mara foundation
- Master in Bitcoin
- I Read Every Bitcoin Quantum Proposal. Here’s Where We Actually Are.
- Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date
- The predictable failure of the QDay Prize
- LDK Server
- Kraken extortion/leak
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- Post-Quantum BIP-86 Recovery via zk-STARK Proof of BIP-32 Seed Knowledge
- In defense of a PQ output type
- Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication
- Post Quantum HD Wallets with fallback SPHINCS keys
Delving Bitcoin
- Fingerprinting nodes: Possible Solutions
- Binary Fuse filters as an alternative to BIP 158 GCS
- Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network
- Public Fraud Proofs for Just-in-Time Channels
- Towards A K-of-N Lightning Network Node
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP-XXXX: PQC Precommitment for Post-Quantum Migration
- BIP-361: Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset
- BIP: 322: Generic Signed Message Format
- BIP440: Varops Budget for Script Runtime Constraint, BIP441: Restoration of disabled Script (tapleaf 0xc2) #2118
- BIP451: Dust UTXO Disposal Protocol
Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Core 31.0 release notes
- Implement BIP 370 PSBTv2 #21283
- Export embedded ASMap RPC #33920
- Rollback for dumptxoutset without invalidating blocks #33477
- kernel: add context‑free block validation API (btck_check_block_context_free) with POW/Merkle flags #33908
- kernel: Expose CheckTransaction consensus validation function #33796
LND
- multi: implement awareness of the final/production taproot channel variant #9985
- onionmessage+peer: rate-limit incoming onion messages per-peer and globally #10713
Core Lightning
Eclair
- Use official feature bit for option_simple_taproot #3144
- Add support for the official splicing protocol #2887