It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #33!
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 Manuel's Tavern. From North Highland Ave, go in the front door. Take a right, and go past the pinball machines into the large room. Join our telegram channel in case you need to ask for help finding us the night of the event.
Address
Manuel's Tavern, 602 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA
Parking
Park behind Manuel's, or across the street in the parking lot with the Manuel's parking sign.
Topics
🤙 Opening Presentation
We’ll have an opening presentation to learn about the L402-HLS Protocol from Chad Welch.
🧡 Bitcoin
- CVE-2024-38365 public disclosure (btcd
FindAndDeletebug) - OCEAN Mining - The Origins of DATUM
- First DATUM block
- MuSig2 module merged into libsecp256k1
- Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1
- Time for an update to BIP2?
- Bitcoin Core 28.0 released
- Coinbase supports bech32m ("taproot addresses")
- Dana wallet released
- New Stratum V2 SRI release 1.1.0
- Block's new self custody scheme
⚡️ Lightning
- LN Summit 2024 Notes & Summary/Commentary
- StashPay wallet test flight
- Phoenix moves LSP to new open protocol
- Lightning Welder - Pay BOLT 12 offers with legacy lightning wallets
- Hybrid Jamming Mitigation: Results and Updates
- BOLT 12 merged
- LDK #3179 - Add the core functionality required to resolve Human Readable Names
💵 Ecash
0️⃣ ZK
- Alpen Labs - Strata launch
- Strata design rationale
- ZeroSync announces the formation of the BitVM Alliance
- Bitcoin PIPEs - Covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin Without Soft Fork
- Shielded CSV: Private and Efficient Client-Side Validation
🅰️ Ark
🆔 Decentralized Identity
🟣 Nostr
- Onosendai "Cyberspace Client"
- Nostur v1.16.0 - live streams and nests
- Joinstr v0.1.1 release
- AlgoRelay: the first nostr native relay capable of serving personalized, algorithmic feeds without the use of external or proprietary APIs or DVMs
- Long-Term Support For Greenart7c3
- Seventh Wave of Nostr Grants
📊 Business & Government
- Blockstream has closed a $210M convertible note financing round led by Fulgur Ventures
- Unique Implementation of Permanent Primary Deficits?
- Celebrating two years of empowering public digital infrastructure
- Italy Plans to Raise Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax from 26% to 42% - Reuters Article
- Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm’s Criminal Case Will Proceed to Trial, NY Judge Orders
- Kingdom of Bhutan holds 13K BTC from mining ops