Socratic Seminar 50

2026-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

We will start with introductions, cover some basic ground rules, and then jump into technical discussions. Topics include aspects of the Bitcoin protocol, new research developments, recent news, and software developments.</p>

Please note the meeting location is in room APEX 1 at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>
Mining</h1>
Privacy</h1>
Covenants</h1>
Layer 2</h1>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Socratic Seminar 49

2026-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location is 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Nostr</h1>

SovereignPost, Bitcoin-anchored protocol that integrates Nostr & Goose Open Source Agentic AI for cross-posting to platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, & TikTok</li>
A guide for people who want to build clients for "relays-as-groups" that are compatible with Flotilla and Chachi.</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Intel BZM2 working for the first time on open source hardware</a></li>
Largest difficulty drop since China ban in 2021</a></li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Gloria steps down as maintainer of Bitcoin Core</a></li>
BIP-110 Signalling, 7% nodes and 0% of miners</a></li> </ul>
Quantum</h1>

Tadje Dryje, Commit/Reveal</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

Sparrow 2.4.0 releases, adds support for BIP375</a></li>
BIP375</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Discord requires age verification</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 48

2026-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location is 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Policy & Legal</h1>

OpenSats warrant canary scare</a></li>
Brink warrant canary issue</a></li> </ul>
Mining & Regulation</h1>

China bans bitcoin again</a></li> </ul>
Security</h1>

Jade wallet security disclosure</a></li> </ul>
Tools</h1>

Yam - Lightweight Bitcoin node connection and analysis CLI tool</a></li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

Bitcoin Core v30 wallet migration bug</a></li> </ul>
Quantum</h1>

Major BIP 360 Update</a></li>
SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups</a></li>
Commit/Reveal with Tadge Dryja (Lightning Network Co-Inventor) | Quantum Bitcoin Summit</a></li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

CTV activation meeting on IRC - Thursday 18 December 17:00 UTC</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 47

2025-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

We will start with introductions, cover some basic ground rules, and then jump into technical discussions. Topics include spects of the Bitcoin protocol, new research developments, recent news, and software developments.</p>

Please note the meeting location in FCAT Demo Room at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Where is the public roadmap for bitcoin core?</a></li>
Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin</a>

n1ckler twitter thread</a></li> </ul> </li>
Motion to Activate BIP3</a></li>
Brink - An Independent Security Audit of Bitcoin Core</a></li>
Implementation of SwiftSync</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Mujina Mining Firmware Open Sourced</a> during btc++ Durham‼️</li>
DMND Pool is Open for Business</a>

and only business</a></li> </ul> </li>
Bitcoin Hashrate Dynamics: Price, Revenue Correction, and Evolution - A Time-Varying Parameter SVAR Stochastic Volatility Analysis</a></li>
Delving Bitcoin - Propagation Delay and Mining Centralization: Modeling Stale Rates</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Nut November Cashu Hackathon</a></li>
NUTXX - ECDH-derived Pay-to-Blinded-Key (P2BK)</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Chaincode ₿OSS Challenge</a></li>
First Ever DIY Signing Device Summit</a></li>
Second - Hiring Engineer</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 46

2025-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in FCAT Demo Room at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

18 Bitcoin Core bugs disclosed in the past year

Bitcoin Optech</a></li>
Twitter Thread Explainer for all 18 bugs</a></li> </ul> </li>
Bitcoin Core PR: chainparams: remove dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us</a></li>
Bitcoin Core Consensus Library merged</a>!

listen to TheCharlatan on the Stephan Livera Podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
BIPs</h1>

BIP: Chain Code Delegation for Private Collaborative Custody</a></li>
BIP draft: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork</a>

bitcoin-dev Google Groups discussion</a></li>
mononaut compiles the transactions this would disable</a></li>
BIP editor Murch is not happy</a> about the self-assigned BIP number</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Wallets</h1>

Bull Wallet</a></li>
Ark Labs launches the Arkade Wallet Beta</a>

Developer Docs</a></li> </ul> </li>
Phoenix Wallet now supports taproot channels</a>!</li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

Developer Ademan</a> receives spiral grant for LNHANCE Expeditionary Project</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Cashu: Nut November</a> Month Long Hackathon</li>
Fedimint: Federation Setup</a> has never been easier!</li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

btc++ comes to Durham!</a></li>
Square launches bitcoin payments</a> to all of their point of sale terminals

Related media push from Bitcoin Merchant Community</a></li> </ul> </li>
Another bitaxe block</a>!</li>
Bitcoin Scholarship</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 45

2025-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in FCAT Demo Room at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

Proposal</a> to define scripts for mempool policy</li>
PortlandHODL</a> dropped a soft fork proposal</a> teaser

attempts to limit spam by limiting scriptPubKey outpoint size to 520 bytes in legacy script</li> </ul> </li>
Bitcoin 30rc3 Testing Guide</a></li>
Great Script Restoration BIP proposals</a></li> </ul>
Wallets</h1>

Sparrow Wallet v2.3.0</a>

supports sending to silent payment addresses and BIP353 DNS addresses! \o/</li> </ul> </li>
Payjoin Dev Kit 1.0.0-rc.0</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

SRI 1.5.0 release notes</a></li>
Hashpool deployment on testnet4!

Pool Website</a></li>
Proxy Website</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Tropic Square</a> secure element TROPIC01 dropped

more open secure element</li>
developer support with no NDA</li> </ul> </li>
Pieter Wuille recently responded</a> to questions and criticisms around his perspectives about spam and OP_RETURN</li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 44

2025-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in room Apex 2 at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Block's Proto unveils Rig and Fleet</a></li>
Sharing Block Templates BIP</a></li>
WIP C + CMake library for Intel's BZM2 asic</a></li>
PizzaAndy's 3D printer plate heated with BZM2 (256Foundation asic donation)</a></li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Add bitcoin-{node,gui} to release binaries for IPC (Merged)</a></li>
policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee (Merged)</a></li>
[IBD] Raspberry Pi: 90% CPU time for 1.5% of block processing (Issue)</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

LDK: Improve privacy for Blinded Message Paths using Dummy Hops</a></li> </ul>
General Developer</h1>

NPM dependancy hijack targeting crypto wallets</a></li>
OpenAI releases their IDE agent extension to compete with windsurf/cusor/copilot</a></li> </ul>
Legal</h1>

New Market Structure Draft Amends Money Transmission Laws To Protect Developers</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 43

2025-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in room Apex 1 at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Sankey Merkle Visualization</a>

new visualization on boerst</a>'s excellent stratum.work</a> site.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Quantum</h1>

Rijndael's excellent summary of the Quantum Bitcoin Summit</a></li>
Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset</a> BIP proposal</li>
Chaincode - Bitcoin and Quantum Computing: Current Status and Future Directions</a></li> </ul>
Simplicity</h1>

Blockstream - Simplicity Launches on Liquid mainnet</a>

This liquid developer got the first simplicity transaction</a> mined</li>
Example simplicity script</a> to increment tx fee by 1 sat/sec</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Fees</h1>

Augur: Block’s Open Source Bitcoin Fee Estimation Library</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Disclosure: LND gossip_timestamp_filter DoS</a></li> </ul>
Utreexo</h1>

Utreexo BIPs</a></li> </ul>
Custody</h1>

Chain Code Delegation: Private Access Control for Bitcoin Keys</a></li> </ul>
Legal</h1>

CoinCenter - Six months of crypto policy: The good, the bad, and the lingering questions</a></li>
Regulation by Monopoly - Google Play Store Bans Wallets That Don't Have Banking License</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 42

2025-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in room Macintosh at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

Rusty took a week off (\o/) to work (👎) on these four draft BIPs for GSR</a></li>
What's a good stopping point? Making the case for the capabilities enabled by CTV+CSFS</a></li>
Bitcoin kernel library project tracking</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

ATL Bitlabs Mine-Hackers Finalists</a></li>
Sv2 - STARK proof of coinbase validity and template fees</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

Whirlpool is back</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Updated Ark protocol docs page</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Bitcoin Grants Common Application - apply to 5 orgs at once</a></li>
Bitcoin Kyoto</a></li>
BTC Prage DevHackDay</a></li>
Pre-emptive commit/reveal for quantum-safe migration (poison-pill)</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 41

2025-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location in room Apex 1 at 100 New Millennium Way, Durham, NC 27709, USA.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
follow the chatham house rule</a>

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

controversial OP_RETURN PR</a> merged

glozow shares a lengthy rationale</a> explaining the merge</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Bitcoin Policy</h1>

CLARITY Act Amendment</a> protects many developers from money transmitter laws</li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Marathon mines a 0.1 sat/vB transaction</a></li>
Scaling Noncustodial Mining Payouts with CTV</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

BIP 77: Async Payjoin</a> merged to BIPs repo</li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Neha Narula: Another explanation of how Ark works</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

mempool research: UTXO Set Report</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 40

2025-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

We will start with introductions, some basic ground rules, and jump into technical discussions. We will cover aspects of the bitcoin protocol, new research developments, recent news, and software developments.</p>

Please note the meeting location at Fidelity Investments near RTP.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

[bitcoin-dev] Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions</a>

[Delving Bitcoin] Addressing community concerns and objections...</a></li>
An excellent example of the process of Rough Consensus</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Second - Ark Liquidity Research</a></li>
Ark Labs - Exploring Taproot Assets in Ark</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

The Evolution of Payjoin</a></li>
DahLIAS - first full CISA protocol over secp256k1</a>

Jonas Nick twitter announcement</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

BIP draft: OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY</a></li>
How CTV+CSFS improves BitVM bridges</a>

Twitter thread</a></li>
Delbrag</a></li> </ul> </li>
Evolving the Ark protocol using CTV and CSFS</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Tether is deploying hashrate to OCEAN</a></li>
SLICE: Making PPLNS Work for Demand Response</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

bitcoin-dev mailing list cancelled by Google</a>

relevant discussion</a> from the last time this happened</li>
it was restored the next day</a></li> </ul> </li>
CISA Research Paper</a></li>
Mempool v3.2.0</a></li>
Lopp - A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics</a></li>
Mempool.space - Block Size Report</a></li>
BitMEX - Bitcoin’s Duplicate Transactions</a></li>
LNBits 1.0 release</a></li>
Spark - stablecoins on statechains</a></li>
The first ever use of the taproot annex on mainnet is...... 🥁 A dickbutt!</a></li>
largest OP_RETURN ever</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 39

2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Fidelity Investments near RTP.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3</a>

Testing Guide</a></li> </ul> </li>
SwiftSync - smarter synchronization with hints</a></li>
This tracking PR for IBD speedup improvements</a> shows some surprising progress! E.G.

30% speedup for pruned nodes</a></li>
30% speedup for low memory nodes</a></li> </ul> </li>
GCC - Great Consensus Cleanup BIP draft</a></li>
PR merged - cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph</a></li>
BIP 777 GPR - Great Poker Restoration</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

VLS - Greenlight Case Study</a></li>
LDK - Announcing Versioned Storage Service (VSS)</a></li>
Phoenix Wallet is back in the USA!</a> 🔥🦅🇺🇸</li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Fedimint v0.6.0 - On-Chain for Everyone</a></li>
fedimint is coming to Start9</a></li>
Cashu is coming to ZEUS</a></li>
Cashu Dev Kit website</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Orange Surf built grid.orange.surf</a>, a super cool visualizer of recent blocks</li>
Decentralized Coordination Free Mining Pools</a></li>
Demand Pool launch</a></li>
New solo miner Innopolis Tech</a></li>
Braiins Open Sources the BCB100 control board</a></li>
SRI v1.3.0</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Second - Try Ark on Signet</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

The Evolution of Payjoin</a></li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

BIP draft: OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

bitcoin-dev mailing list cancelled by Google</a>

relevant discussion</a> from the last time this happened</li>
it was restored the next day</a></li> </ul> </li>
CISA Research Paper</a></li>
Mempool v3.2.0</a></li>
Lopp - A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics</a></li>
Mempool.space - Block Size Report</a></li>
BitMEX - Bitcoin's Duplicate Transactions</a></li>
Hal Finney speaks</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 38

2025-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Fidelity Investments near RTP.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsor Fidelity Investments</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin Core</h1>

Bitcoin CoreDev reflections 2024-2025</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Hashpool has a landing page! hashpool.dev</a></li>
Rebooting P2Pool for Bitcoin</a>

LLM summary of recent commits</a></li> </ul> </li>
mononaut highlights a recent P2Pool block</a></li>
MEVpool: A Private Mempool Marketplace Standard</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

Payjoin - batch payments PR merged</a></li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

Jeremy Rubin, instigator of CTV endorses a covenant proposal</a></li>
Bitcoin Core - CTV PR opened</a> once again</li>
Decentralized Coordination Free Mining Pools</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Ecash mints funded with Spillman channels: The ultimate nodeless Lightning wallet</a></li> </ul>
Politics</h1>

Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve</a>

Lopp thinks we should timelock the funds</a>. Galaxy brain move!</li> </ul> </li>
Bitcoin Used To Secure Results Of Tennessee County Republican Convention Vote</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Block Size Report</a></li>
A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics</a></li>
Hal Finney speaks</a></li>
2014 IETF Memo on the process of rough consensus</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 37

2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Fidelity Investments.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules

discuss what was said, not who said it</li> </ul> </li>
don't be a jerk</li>
thank you to our sponsors Fidelity Investments</a> and Lolli</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Wallets</h1>

BDK 1.0 release</a></li>
Proton Wallet Launch</a></li>
Live Wallet</a> - UTXO fee burden visualizer</li>
Lark</a> - HWI reimplementation in java

Twitter announcement thread</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Stratum Jobs</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

Coinswap v0.1.0</a></li>
rust joinstr implementation</a></li>
Bull Bitcoin implements BIP77 payjoin V2</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Pathfinding with LDK</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Discreet Log Contracts with Ecash Notes</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Ark</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

OP_CTV Payment Pool Example</a></li>
Block Size Report</a></li>
Hal Finney speaks</a></li>
HB92 - NC Digital Assets Investment Act</a></li>
UTXOracle</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 36

2025-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Mad Science</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Trivial QC signatures with clean upgrade path</a></li>
Proposing a P2QRH BIP towards a quantum resistant soft fork</a></li>
Taproot - Technical Explanation</a></li>
Props to Lopp for Dropping Another Top Crop of Stats in the Bitcoin 2024 Annual Review</a></li>
Bitcoin Optech 2024 Year-In-Review</a></li> </ul>
Anthropology</h1>

The Social Layer: An Ethnography of Two Cryptocurrency Communities in the United States</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

KVAC rate limiting</a></li>
Compact E-Cash</a></li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

Covenants Support</a> beauty contest table adds rationale column. Some bangers in there!</li>
Merkelize All The Things (MATT) covenant proposal</a></li>
AJ Towns presents BLL - Basic Bitcoin Lisp Language</a></li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

new rust joinstr implementation</a> from pythcoiner</li>
WabiSabi vulnerability fix</a></li>
Bull Bitcoin implements BIP77 payjoin V2</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Ark</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Lark - HWI reimplementation in java</a>

Craig Raw announcement thread</a></li> </ul> </li>
Excellent Mostro Protocol documentation</a></li>
BDK 1.0 release</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 35

2024-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Mad Science</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Boost Your Bitcoin Node Sync With UTXO Snapshots</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication</a></li>
Disclosure: irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Radpool - Syndicated Mining Pool</a>

Delving Bitcoin discussion thread</a></li> </ul> </li>
Discouraging Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoins</a></li>
Riot is raising half a billion dollars to buy bitcoin</a>

vnprc commentary</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

First ever ehash tokens minted</a>

Hashpool repo</a></li> </ul> </li>
printable ecash notes</a></li>
Bitcoin Design Guide adds an ecash section</a></li>
Cashu Blog - Buckets of blind signatures</a></li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

Un-FE’d Covenants: Char-ting a new path to Emulated Covenants via BitVM Integrity Checks</a></li>
CTV, APO, CAT activity on signet</a></li>
Covenant Support wiki table picks up steam</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Ark</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Lark - HWI reimplementation in java</a>

Craig Raw announcement thread</a></li> </ul> </li>
BDK code audit</a></li>
WabiSabi vulnerability fix</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 34

2024-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
thank you to our sponsor Lolli</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

2023 Brink Annual Report</a>

covers the contributions of the 6 bitcoin core contributors that Brink funds</li>
focuses primarily on code review and testing rather than headline-grabbing projects</li> </ul> </li>
MuSig2 module merged</a> into libsecp256k1!

Jonas Nick wrote a great tweet</a> with links to docs and example code.</li> </ul> </li>
Hash-Based Signature Schemes for Post-Quantum Bitcoin</a></li>
Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades</a></li>
Greg Sanders tweet</a> celebrating the merging of the Ephemeral Dust</a> PR</li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Spark.info</a> is Lightspark's new stablecoin wallet

youtube video overview</a></li> </ul> </li>
BOLT12 offers merged</a> after 4 long years! 🎉</li>
DePix</a> is the first natively issued stablecoin on Lightning

Built using Taproot Assets</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Covenants</h1>

OG Wei Dai on twitter discusses</a> the PIPES paper and the possibility of bitcoin covenants powered by functional encryption</li>
ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions</a></li>
another Jonas Nick banger about his GSR script tool</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

Ark Labs: Unlocking Liquidity Before Shared Output Expiration</a></li>
Second: Package relay: One free adult with each child</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

DATUM</a> is a new block template selection protocol launched by Ocean Mining

released on Umbrel</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

BTCPay Server 2.0 release</a></li>
Bitkey: Building in the open: a novel design for smartphone-based bitcoin wallets</a></li>
Saving Satoshi bitcoin script playground</a></li>
Libbitcoin for Core People</a></li> </ul>

TABConf Socratic Session: Lightning Protocol Development

2024-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

A focused Socratic Seminar on lightning protocol development. Topics will be selected from mailing lists, prominent github repos, network graphs, research papers, vulnerability reports and other sources.</p>

This event will take place at TABConf in Atlanta.</p>

Topics</h2>

vnprc</h4>

Breez SDK adds support for Nodeless: A Liquid Implementation

Breez github</a></li>
nodeless sdk docs</a></li>
native sdk docs</a></li>
Blockstream blog announcement</a></li>
StashPay</a> is the first wallet to ship with it</li> </ul> </li>
BOLT12 Offers Merged</a></li>
Building Bolt12 Into Strike</a></li>
Mutiny Wallet</a> and 10101</a> are both shutting down. 😢</li> </ul>
nifty</h4>

LN Summit 2024 Notes & Summary/Commentary</a></li>
Lightning Welder</a></li> </ul>
randy</h4>

Spec for dual funding merged into BOLTs</a></li>
Bitcoin Core 28 wallet integration guide</a> discusses the impact of TRUC transactions on anchor outputs and the potential future deprecation of update_fee as well RBF pinning attacks.</li> </ul>
Research</h3>

Hybrid Jamming Mitigation: Results and Updates</a></li>
SuperScalar: Laddered Timeout-Tree-Structured Decker-Wattenhofer Factories</a></li> </ul>
PRs and Releases</h3>

LND custom channels PR</a></li>
LDK rust-lightning v0.0.124 release notes</a></li>
LND Gossip Messages</a></li>
Eclair: Allow including routing hints when creating Bolt 11 invoice</a></li>
LDK: Support paying static invoices</a></li>
LDK: Add the core functionality required to resolve Human Readable Names</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 33

2024-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
thank you to our sponsor Lolli</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Notes (Draft)</a></li>
Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide</a></li>
Bitcoin Core's migration to the CMake buildsystem</a></li>
Bitcoin Core maintainer glozow shared this TRUC example transaction</a> on testnet4</li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Building BOLT 12 into Strike</a></li>
Breez SDK</a></li> </ul>
Ark</h1>

ARK v0.2</a> Covenant-less, Offline Payments, Client SDKs, and MutinyNet Support... Oh My!</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

NIP-60</a> is a nostr protocol proposal to store cashu ecash tokens in nostr relays. Callebtc, creator of cashu, says</a> it is implemented in 6 wallets and it solves a major wallet challenge he anticipated for cashu. Noice!</a></li>
Cashu Dev Kit (CDK) is a low level rust toolkit intended to help developers create new cashu wallets and services with ease. The latest release v0.3.0</a> includes support for LNBits, Strike API, and LND lightning backends along with many other fixes and refactors. Check out those new contributors tho! 👀</li> </ul>
Security</h1>

Threat Models and Dark Skippy</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Bitcoin Mining Development Mailing List</a></li>
PPLNS with Job Declaration</a></li>
Stratum v2 Auditor Role</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Floresta v0.6.0</a></li>
Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review</a></li>
DLC dev kit</a> funded by OpenSats! Twitter announcement</a></li>
BIP353 Resolver</a></li>
Mempool v3.0.0</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 32

2024-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
thank you to our sponsor Lolli</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

CardCoins open sources their additive RBF batcher: source code</a>, 2021 blog post</a></li>
mempool full RBF enabled by default</a> in bitcoin core</li>
Introduction to Cluster Linearization</a></li>
Testnet4 launched</a>! The design and rationale are explained in BIP94</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Taproot Assets v0.4</a> - first full feature release</li>
Stable Channels</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Fedi main net release</a>. The Fedi announcement comes with a backdated commitment</a> to fully open source the Fedi app</li>
Boardwalk Cash</a> is a new stable dollar ecash wallet.</li> </ul>
Security</h1>

Dark Skippy</a> - writeup of an attack where a malicious signing device firmware can exfiltrate private keys using non-random nonce selection during transaction signing</li>
read the twitter thread</a> for a TL;DR</li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

a bitaxe found a block</a></li>
Ocean</a> building their own miner-side template construction</a> mechanism. Not using Stratum V2</li>
HODLTarantula</a> is planning to launch HT Pool</a>. Don't like it? GFY</li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Maelstrom launches a bitcoin grant program</a></li>
Proton Wallet</a> - Send bitcoin via email</li>
Mutiny Wallet is Shutting Down</a></li>
Satoshi Pacioli offers free tax services</a> for OSS bitcoin devs</li>
Casa now supports yubikey</a> as a blind signer</li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 31

2024-07-10T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Crafty Beer, Wine, and Spirits near Five Points.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
Freedom Tech Workshop - AI for Digital Sovereignty - July 18th 6pm @ The Loading Dock on Whitacre Mill</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Swan Bitcoin</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Bitcoin Core 27.1</a></li>
Detailed technical writeup</a> on silent payments</li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Strike launches BOLT12 playground</a> docker stack</li>
Phoenix Wallet adds BOLT12 support</a>!</li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Block's first ASIC customer</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

GNU Taler</a></li>
Blinded Auth Tokens are happening at Mutiny</a> and have been used for years at Google</a></li> </ul>
Security</h1>

LND DoS vulnerability disclosure</a></li>
Bitcoin Core introduces a new policy for publishing security vulnerabilities. Check the PR on github</a> or the advisories on bitcoincore.org</a></li>
Wasabi Wallet Security Incident</a></li>
Mutiny Wallet's fedimint service providers got rugged</a> by a DNS provider. Oof!</a> Fortunately they released a hotfix</a> today.</li> </ul>
Privacy</h1>

joinstr v0.1.0 release</a></li> </ul>
Rollups</h1>

Burak's at it again! Brollups</a> is a new rollup design based on vTXOs.</li>
Recommended reading: John Light</a>'s 2022 report on validity rollups</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Vojtěch Strnad explains all the easter eggs he included in this insane transaction</a>. He also shared the source code</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 30

2024-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Crafty Beer, Wine, and Spirits near Five Points.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
Freedom Tech Workshop - June 20th The Loading Dock on Whitacre Mill</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Swan Bitcoin</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

v3 transactions TRUCing along, renamed and assigned BIP-0431</a></li>
Jeremy Rubin write up on functional encryption covenants</a></li>
Ark Labs launch announcement</a></li>
CISA research site</a></li>
New silent payments informational page, silentpayments.xyz</a></li>
New wasabi release enables coordinator selection via nostr</a></li>
OP_CAT based proof of work signet bitcoin faucet</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

LND 0.18 beta includes inbound fees, route blinding, fee estimates for invoices, and more</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Ocean Mining moves HQ to El Salvador</a></li>
Ecash TIDES using Cashu and Stratum v2</a></li>
Bitcoin Mechanic twitter post exploring empty blocks</a></li>
Greg Maxwell post with original claim of covert asic boost</a></li>
Mempool.space research report on empty blocks</a></li>
Classic Jimmy Song blog post on covert ASICboost</a></li>
https://stratum.work/</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Mutiny launches Harbor</a>, a desktop ecash wallet</li>
OpenCash non-profit dev grants</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Peer to Peer Rights Fund set up to fight the legal precedents attempting to be advanced in the Samourai case. https://p2prights.org/</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 29

2024-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Crafty Beer, Wine, and Spirits near Five Points.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
Freedom Tech Workshop - May 23rd The Loading Dock on Whitacre Mill</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Swan Bitcoin</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

BIP repo gets 5 new editors</a></li>
Restored Script covenant and kitchen sink proposal twitter summary</a>, article</a></li>
new libsecp release is harder better faster stronger</a></li>
utreexod enters beta</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

LDK adds bolt12 support</a></li>
lipa blogs their journey from LDK to Breez SDK blog</a>, mutiny wallet comments</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

Ocean launches bolt12 support twitter announcement</a>, website instructions</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

gandlaf the graet explains ecash</a></li>
Fedimint module for signing Nostr events using ROAST</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

AJ Towns encapsulates the bitcoin builder's mantra: team slow and steady</a></li>
weak blocks proposal</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 28

2024-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Please note the meeting location at Crafty Beer, Wine, and Spirits near Five Points.</p>

Announcements</h1>

no pictures or recordings</li>
chatham house rules</li>
don't be a dick</li>
Fedimint Workshop - April 18th Office Evolution</li>
thank you to our sponsors Lolli</a> and Swan Bitcoin</a></li>
introductions</li> </ul>
Bitcoin</h1>

Teleport Transactions</a> (twitter thread</a>)</li>
Great Consensus Cleanup Revival</a> (BIP</a>)</li>
Bitcoin Core - 27.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide</a></li> </ul>
Lightning</h1>

Coinbase Selects Lightspark for Lightning</a></li> </ul>
Mining</h1>

ViaBTC Vulnerability Disclosure</a></li>
Stratum v2 - SRI 1.0.0 release</a></li> </ul>
Ecash</h1>

Cashu experiments with eCash stablecoins</a></li> </ul>
BitVM</h1>

BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin</a></li> </ul>
Miscellaneous</h1>

Hedgehog - A protocol for improved layer two bitcoin payments</a></li> </ul>

Socratic Seminar 27

2024-03-13T00:00:00+00:00