It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #29!
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
Tonight we'll be meeting at ATL BitLab. Join our telegram channel in case you need to ask for help finding us the night of the event.
Address
684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE, Suite A1 Atlanta, GA 30312
Parking
Park anywhere in the gravel lot that has a "tenants only" sign (ATL BitLab is the tenant and you are their guests). You can also park right in front of ATL BitLab's fence. Avoid the areas marked for valet use.
Look for the orange door behind the fence.
Topics
🤙 Opening Presentation
We’ll have an opening presentation to learn about tbDex — an open source protocol for building internet-native financial services.
🧡 Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Mechanic's write-up on Bitmain and empty blocks
- Silent Payments: Privacy-preserving static addresses for Bitcoin
- Silent Payments: Light Client Protocol
- Mononaut's DMM exchange hack analysis
- Testnet 4 BIP
- DNS Payment Instructions is BIP 353
- BIP 347: OP_CAT in Tapscript
- Ark V2
💵 Ecash
⚡️ Lightning
- Mutiny: blinded authentication with lightning address
- Spiral funds ValidiTEE
- ValidiTEE: Validating Lightning Signer in a Secure Enclave
- Announcing LND 0.18 beta: Smarter Sweeps, Inbound Fees, and Improved Scaling!
- LNDK can be run without custom LND build now
- cfg: move experimental options to main protocol cfg
- Core Lightning v24.05: "The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi"
- New BOLT12.org
- BOLT12-Prism v2.0 Release
- Zeus v0.9.0-alpha8 release - BOLT 12 address
- Zeus Bounties
🆔 Decentralized Identity
- tbDex 1.0 Launch
- Decentralized Agnostic Paytag
- didpay
- tbDEX 1.0 | Show & Tell
- Introducing did:dht - a new DID Method
- Democratizing Loans and Credit with FormFree