Socratic Seminar #81

Meetup

Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!

Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research

• TwoStepDemocracy: Prototyping of self-evolving, democratic, and decentralized systems
• HOWLR: A Client-Driven Approach to BGP Hijack Detection
• LND Gossip Nil-Map Panic on Zero-Timestamp Messages

Network Data

• Bitnod.es
• ASMap Dashboard preview
• ASMap Web

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
• Dog Park - Privacy in Bark
• Botanix L2 shuts down
• Taproot Hidden Paths statistics discussion
• Reverse Engineering Canaan Avalon Nano3S
• Cornell Bitcoin Club
• Rusty leaving Blockstream and core-lightning
• Centure Metadata
• PlebGPT

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR
• Giving teeth to expected EC disabling: P2XX(-T)(-ML)

Delving Bitcoin

• Public key recovery for EC leaves in P2MR (BIP-360)
• Bird of Prey 2: non-malleable Schnorr + PQ signatures

Pull requests

BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals

• BIP95: Testnet 5 #2196
• BIP448 Collected Work + Tools

Bitcoin Core

• BIP 434 Support: Peer feature negotiation #35221
• Replace libevent with our own HTTP and socket-handling implementation #35182
• Full Libevent removal #34411
• rpc, wallet: add an option to not load the wallet after migrating #35266

LND

• lnwallet+walletrpc: add WalletKit.SubmitPackage for v3 CPFP package relay #10900
• bolt12+lnwire: add codec foundation with Offer message #10789