It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #17!

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.

1. Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
2. The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
3. Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
4. We go to a bar afterwards

Opening Presentation - Running LND on Android

Nitesh Balusu is going to talk about his work getting an LND node to run persistently in the background on Android devices for Blixt wallet.

Topics List

Bitcoin

• 📱 Bitcoin core app ready for testing
• ⛏️ StratumV2 project releases a new reference implementation and is looking for miners to help test
• 💻 BDK 1.0.0-alpha released
• 💎 Ordinal swap BIP

Lightning

• ⚡️ Resize channels offchain with hierarchical channels
• 🪡 Discussion about channel splicing spec on mailing list
  • Eclair is now working in channel splicing
  • As discussed at earlier meetup, so is Core LN (Dusty’s PR)

Nostr

• 🫂 Nicolas Burtey drafts P2P trading spec NIP
• 🔋 Voltage launches Nostr toolkit
• ⚠️ NIP-69 - defined vocabulary for content reporting
• 🔑 Updates to NIP-26 delegated events signing
• 🟣 n3xb - naive nostr no-KYC exchange for bitcoin

Regulatory & Business

• 👨‍⚖️ Lawyers assisting Roman Sterlingov, accused of running Bitcoin Fog, a custodial mixer
  • 🎙️ Interview with lawyers on Citadel Dispatch
  • Can faulty Chainalysis assertions result in fault imprisonment?
• 💰 NCR attacked by Ransomware
  • 📃 Press release from NCR
  • 🐈‍⬛ Analysis of BlackCat/ALPHV gang