It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22!
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
Logistics for Tonight
Due to a scheduling conflict with our hosts, we're not going to be at NCR. This time, we'll try a Socratic Seminar at ATL BitLab and see how it goes. If this is your first time attending a meetup at BitLab, follow these parking instructions and join our telegram channel in case you need to ask for help finding us the night of the event.
Topics
🧡 Bitcoin
20 BTC mining fee accidentSummary unavailable
Taproot Assets Protocol BIPs📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Bitcoin covenant tools softfork PR📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
ZeroSync STARK header chain verifier demo
The ZeroSync project announced a demo and repo using STARKs to prove and verify a chain of Bitcoin block headers.
ZeroSync Announcement📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
ZeroSync Demo📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
ZeroSync RepositorySummary unavailable
Runestones
Caset Rodarmor (creator of Ord) tweets about working on "Runestones".
Runestones Repository📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
BitVM
BitVM paper - Compute Anything on BitcoinSummary unavailable
BitVM Summary by Bob BodilySummary unavailable
⚡️ Lightning
blip-0029: Taproot Asset Protocol Channels📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Taproot Assets on mainnet📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Practical PTLCs, a little more concretely📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Amboss launches Hydro liquidity serviceSummary unavailable
LDK PR #2413 - Blinded pathsSummary unavailable supports sending payments to blinded paths and allows receiving payments to paths where a single final hop is hidden (blinded) from the spender.
LDK PR #2514 - other LDK blined paths stuffSummary unavailable
LDK #2371Summary unavailable adds support for managing payments using offers. It allows a client application using LDK to use an offer to register its intent to pay an invoice, timing out the payment attempt if a sent offer never results in a received invoice, and then using existing code in LDK to pay the invoice (including retrying if the first attempts don’t succeed).
Scaling Lightning with Covenants📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
LND Route blinding merged📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Doppler used to find issue in Eclair📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
LND 0.17 released - includes simple taproot channels📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
River report on LN growth📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Vulnerability Disclosure: "All your mempool are belong to us" 📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
🧠 AI
GPUtpoia - rent out your GPU for AI operations, earn bitcoinSummary unavailable
Start9 launches self-hosted LLM and self-hosted StableDiffusionSummary unavailable
ChatGPT will be able to parse images and speak📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
🔒 Infosec & Privacy
Veilid - successor to TOR from Cult of the Dead CowSummary unavailable
Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Obscura VPN - Carl Dong launches VPN service that cant track activitySummary unavailable
📊 Business
Chipper adds Lightning📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
Blockstream Greenlight open for business📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
🟣 Nostr
Exit: backup twitter data and import to NostrSummary unavailable
$prism: Nostr lightning prism protocolSummary unavailable
Njump - nostr profiles UI📄Summarized🧒Explain Like I’m 5
🎉 Fun
Footage released of Hal Finney presenting at Crypto ‘98Summary unavailable
Bitcoin / USD pricing oracle that only depends on a Bitcoin Core nodeSummary unavailable