Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #16
It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #16!
What is a Socratic Seminar?
Inspired by other BitDevs meetups around the US, our Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing and lively discussion.
- Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
- The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
- Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
- We go to a bar afterwards
Topics List
Bitcoin
⛏ Mining Dev Kit
- Steve's tweet
- Block Article
🔒 OP_VAULT gets a BIP # soon
GitHub PR
🧻 Rollkit
- Announcement tweet
- Rollkit blog post
Lightning
🪡 Dusty opens a PR for channel splicing in Core LN
- Dusty's tweet
- GitHub PR
🕶 Route Blinding merged
- Bastien's tweet
- Merged PR
🗣 Aunty LN
Alex and Benny takes home a win for the Atlanta and Tampa bitcoin communities at SatsX hack with verified lightning node profiles on Nostr.
- Blockspaces tweet
- Getting krunk
Nostr
🟣 LNURL over Nostr
Kukks started a discussion around implementing LNURL on top of Nostr, which would provide a way to use LNURL without HTTP.
GitHub PR
⚡️ Nostr Wallet Connect
The Alby folks drafted a NIP for "wallet connect", the goal of which is to allow you to make a Nostr zap without switching over to a lightning wallet.
Draft on GitHub
Business
🔑 Block Wallet becomes BitKey
The Block wallet build projects continues and their latest blog post announces the name as "BitKey".
Blog post
🟰 cequals
TBD launches an LSP called c=
- Bitcoin Magazine article
- c= website
👩⚖️ Restraining order against Lightning Labs
Blockchain startup Tari Labs wins restraining order against Lightning Labs over Taro protocol