It's almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #36!
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
🧡 Bitcoin
- What's being done today to make Bitcoin "quantum-safe"?
- Draft BIP: Adding Support for Unspendable Keys in Descriptors
- Bitcoin Core 28.0 Policy Demo Website
- Updated Stats on Compact Block Reconstruction
- Erlay Protocol Update: Optimizing Transaction Relay
- Stats on Bitcoin Core Orphan Pool Evictions
- Updated BIP Process Proposal (BIP3)
- New Replacement Cycling Attack Vector Disclosed
- Optimal Cluster Linearization Research Discovery
🧡 Mining
- Block's Proto Partners with The 256 Foundation for Open-Source Mining
- First Bitcoin Telehash Fundraiser Mines Block, Raises 3.146 BTC
- Deterministic Transaction Selection from Committed Mempool
- Request for a Covenant Design for Braidpool Mining Pool
- Fast Difficulty Adjustment for DAG Blockchain
🧡 PSBTv2 Developments
- PSBTv2 Integration Testing and Implementation Status
- Merklized PSBTv2 Implementation in Ledger Hardware Wallets
- Silent Payments Integration with PSBTv2
⚡️ Lightning
- Tether, Lightning Labs Announce USDT on Lightning Network
- Voltage x Fidelity paper: The Lightning Network - Expanding Bitcoin Use Cases
⚡️ Vulnerabilities
- Disclosure: Invalid Claims Liquidity Griefing in LDK v0.0.125 & Earlier (fixed in v0.1.1)
- New Vulnerability in LDK Claim Processing
- Channel Force Closure Vulnerability in LDK
⚡️ Protocol Discussions
- BOLTs: Peer Storage Protocol Specification Merged
- Zero-knowledge Gossip for LN Channel Announcements
- Discussion: Probabilistic Payments as Alternative to Trimmed HTLCs
- Further Discussion on Ephemeral Anchor Scripts
💻 New Releases
- Foundation: Passport Prime Product Video
- LDK v0.1.1 Security Release
- BTCPay Server 2.0.6 Security Update
- Bitcoin Keeper v1.3.0 Adds Miniscript Support
- Nunchuk Adds Taproot MuSig2 Features
- New Jade Plus Hardware Signing Device
- Bitcoin Safe 1.0.0 Desktop Wallet Released
- Strata Bridge: BitVM2-based Sidechain Bridge
- BDK Wallet 1.1.0 Released
- LND v0.18.5-beta Released
- Bitcoin Inquisition 28.1 Released
- BTCPay Server: Removed LNURL-pay Description Hash Check
- Proton Wallet Launches on Android, iOS, and Web
- PeerSwap v4.0rc1 Lightning Channel Liquidity Tool
- Coinswap v0.1.0 Beta Release
- Rust-payjoin 0.21.0 with Transaction Cut-through
- Joinpool Prototype Using CTV
- Rust Joinstr Library for Coinjoin Protocol
📚 Notable Code & Documentation Changes
📚 Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Core: Extended Timewarp Bug Protection
- Bitcoin Core: New Mining Info and Block Target Fields
- Bitcoin Core: Improved X-only Pubkey Private Key Retrieval
- Bitcoin Core: Improved MuHash Performance
- Bitcoin Core: Improved Orphan Transaction Resolution in Bitcoin Core
📚 LND
- LND: Configurable Proof Mature Delta for Channel Announcements
- LND: Deprecating Legacy Payment APIs
- LND: New Fee Bumping Parameters
📚 Eclair
- Eclair: MuSig2 Storage Support for Future Taproot Channels
- Eclair: New UTXO Locking Controls for Liquidity Ads
- Eclair: Improved Routing Table Sync
- Eclair: Public Channel Splicing Support
- Eclair: Support for Batched Channel Splices
📚 LDK
- LDK: New Static Invoice and Offer Creation Features
- LDK: Improved HTLC Handling
- LDK: Complete Support for Receiving Async Payments