Socratic Seminar 1

December 13, 2021

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This will be our first meetup. We will start with an introduction of the BitDevs model, some basic ground rules, personal introductions and jump into technical discussions.

Taproot

• Murch Taproot Explainer
• Taproot Adoption Stats

Lightning

• LND 0.14.0-beta breaks compatibility with BOLT compliant nodes (eclair, c-lightning etc)
• Eclair vulnerability exploited to steal 14M sats
• Lightning Node Connect: A Technical Deep Dive

Privacy

• Introduction to Coinjoin
• Compact Block Filters Deep Dive (BIP 158)

Scaling

• Mercury Statechain Torch
• Statechains
• Blockstream Sponsors Federated E-Cash as a Bitcoin Scaling Technology
• Fedimint Website
• Congestion Control

Miscellaneous

• BitFeed visualization
• Why Double Hashing?
• Botnet Found to Use Bitcoin to Coordinate