It's almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #47!

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.

1. Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
2. The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
3. Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
4. 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 Core

• glozow steps down as Bitcoin Core maintainer - Gloria Zhao removes her key from trusted-keys after ~3.5 years as maintainer
• Bitcoin Core 29.3
• The future of Bitcoin Core GUI
• Recent OP_RETURN statistics

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Inquisition 29.2
• Would OP_SUCCESS + OP_CAT be spent? - Discussion on Delving Bitcoin about the interaction between OP_SUCCESS and OP_CAT
• Nested MuSig2 - Nadav Kohen
• BIP 360 Merged - Quantum Resistance via P2MR
  • Quantum FUD Rebuttal
• Sigbash v2 - Oblivious Signing
• BLISK - Boolean Logic Integrated into Single Key comparison to Sigbash
• Silent Payment Scanning Attack Mitigation

Lightning

• Flint by Spiral - New project from Spiral (Block) focused on Lightning development tools and infrastructure
• BOLT12 on Lexe - Lexe adds BOLT12 support, enabling static payment codes and improved privacy for Lightning payments
• LN-Symmetry Project Recap - Greg Sanders rebased LN-Symmetry (eltoo) to Bitcoin Inquisition 29.x with TRUC, ephemeral dust, P2A, and 1p1c package relay support
• $1M Lightning Transaction - Voltage powered the first publicly reported $1M Lightning transaction between SD Markets and Kraken, settled in 0.47 seconds
• Programming Lightning - HRF Grant - Austin received an HRF grant for a self-paced educational curriculum where students implement a Lightning payment channel from scratch

Other Layer 2s

• bark-0.1.0-beta.6 (Ark) - Adds hArk for async VTXO claims, removes synchronous coordination

Business

• Bithumb Accidentally Sends $40B in Bitcoin - South Korea's second-largest exchange sent 620,000 BTC instead of 620,000 KRW during a promo event, raising questions about exchange operational security and crypto's legal classification

AI + Lightning

• Lightning Labs Agent Tools - Open-source tools giving AI agents native Lightning Network access, including lnget (L402-aware HTTP client), MCP skills, and scoped macaroon credentials
• OpenClaw Bot Spawns Child Agent - First documented case of an AI agent autonomously purchasing services via Lightning to spawn a child agent, using LNVPS, OpenClaw, Alby Hub, and PPQ
• Alby Bitcoin Payments Agent Skill - AI agent skill for bitcoin payments via Nostr Wallet Connect
• Magnolia Launches - Banking API integrating Bitcoin and stablecoins with traditional finance, including agent bank accounts via ClawBot.cash
• "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"
• The Automaton - Fully Autonomous, self replicating AI LN fork
• PPQ launches AutoClaw Router

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• If you held the McChicken...