Socratic Seminar #82
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Note: There will be a partial solar eclipse during the meeting and we may take a break and step outside for a while.
Special: BIP110
- BIP110 Situation Monitor
- BIP110 Signaling
- Current user agents on the network
- Choosing the Core chain? Here is how to switch
- Does a soft fork always succeed?
Special: Coldcard Hack and Fallout
- Full panic - one of my wallets was drained
- Kevin Loaec post
- Rob Hamilton post
- Predictable RNG Fallback and 32-Bit Reseed in COLDCARD Firmware
- Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue
- Wizardsardine Report on ColdCard
- Entropy visualizer
- Coldcard Watch
- CK Tripwire
- Security Advisory: Update BTCPay Server to 2.4.2 Immediately
- Red Teaming Bitcoin
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Vulnerability Disclosure: Twin Memory Exhaustion DoS Vulnerabilities in Core Lightning
- MPFlow: Learning Budgeted Max-Flow Optimization on the Lightning Network with Deep Graph Reinforcement Learning
- How Reliable Is the Multi-Input Heuristic for Bitcoin Address Clustering in Law Enforcement Contexts?
- Decentralization and Governance in IoT: Bitcoin and Wikipedia Case
- Open Bitcoin Metrics: Verifiable Full-Node-Derived Bitcoin Time Series for Economic Research
- Bitcoin Mempool Linearization
- Strategies for quantum-enabled Bitcoin miners
- Optimizing Reward Mechanism in Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares Mining Pools under Block Withholding Attacks
- Unruly by Design: Fee Volatility and Strategic Attacks in Bitcoin Mining
- Searching for SHRINCS Parameters
Network Data
Local/Legal
- Russian State Duma passes law on regulation of digital currencies, digital rights
- ARD Doku: Der Krypto-Krieg - Wie Putin uns mit Bitcoins bekämpft
- Brivat Bitcoin Privacy event in Berlin
Miscellaneous
- Notice of ICANN .bitcoin TLD community application
- Bitcoin Antithesis
- Introducing Bedrock: A Deterministic Hypervisor
- Bitcoin Security Consortium
- BitMEX shuts down
- ElectrumX 2.0 release
- First StratumV2 block mined
- Boltz disabled until further notice
- Post-Mortem: What Happened Between Samourai Wallet and Me
- Bitdevs Map
- Orange Juice
- Polymarket accepts lightning via Spark
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- Segwit commitment to post-quantum witness data?
- PQC output type discussion
- Expiring HTLCs without free relay
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP458: Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
- BIP459: DahLIAS fully aggregated signatures for secp256k1
- BIP460: CISA for Taproot Key Path Spends
secp256k1
- SECURITY.md: remove Jonas Nick from trusted keys #1884
- Make theStack a maintainer and a security contact #1887
- Add “silentpayments” module implementing BIP352 (take 4, limited to full-node scanning) #1765
- Silent Payments decrypt later
Bitcoin Core
- p2p: Replace per-peer transaction rate-limiting with global rate limits #34628
- validation: fetch block input prevouts in parallel during ConnectBlock #35295
- wallet: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet #32489
- rpc: support a formal description of our JSON-RPC interface #34683
- p2p: Increase inbound capacity for block-relay only connections #28463
- wallet: store all witness variants of a transaction #35501