It's almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #39!
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
- Bitcoin.org animations PR merged
- The MEVil of Relay Policy
- Thunderbolt: A Formally Verified Protocol for Off-Chain Bitcoin Transfers
- Taproot annex on mainnet
- A simple backup scheme for wallet accounts
- DahLIAS: Discrete Logarithm-Based Interactive Aggregate Signatures
- What's the largest size OP_RETURN payload ever created?
- How to linearize your cluster
- Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
- wallet: Disable creating and loading legacy wallets
- BIP 54: Consensus Cleanup merged
- UTXOSet Report
- Garbageman
- Continued discussion around BIP177 - Redefine Bitcoin's base unit
- descriptor-encrypt: a rust library to encrypt Bitcoin descriptors
- Dust Expiry: Clean the UTXO set from spam tweet
- CVE-2025-43707: Disclosure of rust-miniscript vulnerability
- Pay to Quantum Resistant Hash Progress (BIP 360)
- Hourglass BIP
- 64-bit Arithmetic Proposal
- Bitcoin++ Debate Results ossification clip
📱 Software and Client Updates
⚡️ Lightning
- BOLT 12 - re-add recurrence support
- LDK - BOLT 12 Proof of Payments
- Core Lightning - Add LSPS0 Client and Service Plugin
- Breez Nodeless supports BOLT12 and BIP353
- Wallet of Satoshi announces non-custodial US-approved wallet
- Splicing Interoperability
📊 Business & Regulatory
- Steak n' Shake supports bitcoin payments
- Revolut to Roll Out Bitcoin Lightning Payments for Europe Users Through Lightspark
- Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act
- Magic Eden to add support for Spark L2
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank will let clients buy bitcoin
- Wisconsin Sells Entire $350M Spot Bitcoin ETF Stake
- OCC Gives Banks the Green Light to Offer Bitcoin and Crypto Custody and Trading Services
- Coinbase PII Leak & $20M Ransom