Socratic Seminar #83
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Special: Liquid Hack
- Liquid got got!
- Current understanding of the Liquid hack
- More details
- Liquid hack explanation by Amboss
- Liquid/Blockstream chat history
Special: CISA
- BIP458: Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
- BIP459: DahLIAS fully aggregated signatures for secp256k1
- BIP460: CISA for Taproot Key Path Spends
- CISA in Bitcoin Core
- CISA and PQC
- CISA companion bip drafts
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Enabling Threshold Custody for the Lightning Network with Nested Threshold Multi-Signatures
- Crashing a lightning node with a flood of pings
- CLN vulnerability fix rollout
- RosettaBitcoin: An Artifact-Backed Experience Report on Verification Infrastructure for Agent-Assisted Consensus Validators
- Cryptocurrencies in the Quantum Age: Migration Paths to PQC
- BMuSig2: Schnorr-Compatible Blind Multi-Signatures
- Extracting and Verifying Illicit Bitcoin Addresses from Underground Forum Discussions
- Non-Interactive Translation of Winternitz Signatures to Lamport Signatures via Secret Sharing
- Scalable Exact Path Selection via Structure-Aware Search for Virtual Payment Channels
- Improved Collision Attack on RIPEMD-160
- A General Approach to Adaptor Signatures
- Scaling the Lightning Network with Practical Set Reconciliation
Network Data
- Address Relay under stress
- Address Relay under stress: Attack Characteristics and Measuring Its Effects
- Passive Traffic Analysis of Bitcoin P2P v2
- Unreachable addresses in Bitcoin GETADDR responses
- Pesquisa Dashboard
Local/Legal
Miscellaneous
- BIP300/Ecash fork keeps getting postponed
- rBitcoin
- Another Coldcard analysis
- HRF grants 5 BTC to 16 freedom tech projects
- Test Bitcoin Core App preview
- Self-custody trilemma
- Trezor shipping provider data breach
- PDK 1.0
- Nation State Bitcoin Adoption report
- Conduition on mapping Bitcoin’s post-quantum landscape
- BIP110 post mortem
- Peach is at a crossroads
- nix-bitcoin final version
- Bitcoin at Block open roadmap
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
- DropKick ⚽️ - A minimal commit/reveal PQ rescue protocol
- static-pie release binaries available for testing
Delving Bitcoin
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Bitcoin Core
- txindex: hash keys and pack positions to reduce disk usage #35531
- wallet: derivehdkey RPC to get xpub at arbitrary path #32784
- fees: Introduce Mempool Based Fee Estimation to reduce overestimation #34075
- wallet: store all witness variants of a transaction #35501
- wallet: avoid a crash when creating a wallet with -nosettings #36176
- miner: Enforce Murch-Zawy rule (BIP54) #35949
LND
Core Lightning
Eclair
- Fix several on-the-fly-funding bugs #3351
- Reject messages that include the wrong type of signatures #3368