Here are the topics we'll be covering at Socratic Seminar #3.

🎃 Whitepaper

Since October 31, 2021 will mark the 13th anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, we will discuss a few key points from the document. If you haven't read it, you can find it here.

• Whitepaper (English)
• Whitepaper (Translations)

👮‍♂️ Regulatory Issues

Peter Rehm will talk to us about regulatory issues involving Bitcoin and Lightning.

🤷‍♀️ Other Topics

For the following topics, major props to BitDevs NYC for putting these topics together for their September 30 Socratic Seminar. We'll be borrowing several of those topics.

☠️ InfoSec

• Bitcoin.org DNS Hijacked?
• Bitcoin stolen in failed COMIT network BTC {'<'}-{'>'} Monero Atomic Swap
• Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the second largest ever reported
• Coinbase sends accidental 2FA reset notification to customers
• DAO Maker drained of $7m
• DDoS attacks against various Lightning and Bitcoin services
• Ethereum netsplit, bug explained
• Hacker returns funds in $612 million Poly Network hack
  • Poly Network hacker receives $500k bounty
• Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities In Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM
• Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops
  • Tracing the WannaCry 2.0 Monero Transactions
• NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild

⚡️ Lightning Dev

• #zerobasefee
• Do we really want users to solve an NP-hard problem when they wish to find a cheap way of paying each other on the Lightning Network?
• DNS records for LN nodes

🦡 Bitcoin Dev

• Removing the Dust Limit
• Announcing bip174.org, a web-based PSBT viewer and editor
  • bip174.org
• Proposal for a few IANA mime-types related to Bitcoin
• Braidpool: Proposal for a decentralised mining pool
• TAPLEAF_UPDATE_VERIFY covenant opcode
• BIP extensions
• Proposal: Package Mempool Accept and Package RBF