Here are the topics for Socratic Seminar #4. 🍂

🕵️‍♂️ Secret Guest

• Native segwit outputs continue to increase

• RBF usage

• Darkside Ransomware

• Preparing for taproot #16: output linking

• CVE-2021-41591/ CVE-2021-41592 / CVE-2021-41593 "Dust HTLC Exposure Considered Harmful

• Make descriptor wallets by default

• Use legacy relaying to download blocks in blocks-only mode

• Add Single Random Draw as an additional coin selection algorithm

• Support remote signing over RPC

• Elligator Squared for BN-like curves

• On libbitcoinkernel

💪 Shaun

• Security Budget II, Low Fees, and Merged Mining

• Lightning and the Internet: Choosing the Right Path

👾 Stephen

🎨 UX Design

• Wallet Improvement Project
  • Breez
  • Phoenix
  • Blixt

Lightning backups and interoperabilityconsiderations

• Contacts Lists for Bitcoin Wallets prototype by Johns Beharry
  • This is a proposed design technique to abstract Bitcoin addresses, node identifiers, etc. into a "contact" with multiple payment methods.
  • Contacts are included in design flows for Zeus Wallet
  • Blixt Wallet has a similar type of contacts list based on Lightning address

Bitcoin UI Kit has a new screen browser

• Satoshi Symbol
  • Issue to add more sats symbols to the Bitcoin Icons kit
  • Examples of sats symbols in circulation
  • Should there be a sats symbol, and if so, what should it look like?

Square Crypto - grant to Bosch

⚡️Lightning

Alby - Lightning Browser Extension

• Mastering Lightning book "in production"
  • Closed to new PRs for now
  • Numerous typographical edits over past month

New c-lightning discord

Releases

rust-lightning v0.0.102 is released

lnd v0.14.0-beta.rc1 pre-release

c-lightning v0.10.2rc2 pre-release

Eclair v0.6.2

Eclair Mobile 0.4.17

🤷‍♂️ Misc

Release of Suredbits Oracle Explorer and Krystal Bull

"Square is considering building a Bitcoin mining system…"