It's almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #42!
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
Please see this page for current parking information: Parking at ATl BitLab
Look for the orange door behind the fence.
Topics
Bitcoin
Mining
Tooling
- Augur: Block’s Open Source Bitcoin Fee Estimation Library
- Confidential Script: Emulate soft forks using stateless TEEs
- ArkadeOS use of TEEs for covenant emulation
Bitcoin Core
- Bitcoin Core #32521 - policy: make pathological transactions packed with legacy sigops non-standard
- Bitcoin v29.1 - Release Candidate 1
- Changing the minimum relay feerate
- Bitcoin Core ##33106 - policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee #33106
- Bitcoin Core #33050 net, validation: don't punish peers for consensus-invalid txs
Ideas & Research
- BipTreexo
- Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS
- [bitcoindev] Revisiting secp256r1 signatures (i.e. P256, mobile HSM support)
- Testing compact block prefilling
- Payjoin v3 - From Two-Party Protocol to Multiparty Framework
- Payjoin Foundation is Announced at Bitcoin++ Riga
- [bitcoindev] New BIP Editors: 1 Year Later
- Sharing block templates
- Peer Observer - new p2p network monitoring tool
Alternative Clients
CTV+CSFS
Quantum
- Taproot is post-quantum secure when restricted to script-path spends
- Post-Quantum HD-Wallets, Silent Payments, Key Aggregation, and Threshold Signatures
Lightning
- Disclosure: LND gossip_timestamp_filter DoS
- LDK #3628 - Async payments static invoice server
- LDK #3246 - Enable Creation of Offers and Refunds Without Blinded Path
- LDK #3892 - offer: make the merkle tree signature public
- LDK #3662 - LSPS5 implementation
- [Proposal] Bitcoin Deposits: A Zero UTXO Trust-Minimized Lightning Wallet
Other Layer 2s
- Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet
- Alpen Labs - Glock Protocol: formally defined protocol for garbled circuits on bitcoin (bitvm-3)
Business
- Google redacts non-custodial wallet ban from play store
- SoFi Chooses Lightspark to Power International Money Transfers
- Flashnet launched AMM beta on Spark