Socratic Seminar 35

December 11, 2024

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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.

Please note the meeting location at Mad Science of the Triangle in Cary.

Announcements

• no pictures or recordings
• chatham house rules
• don't be a dick
• thank you to our sponsors Lolli and Mad Science
• introductions

Bitcoin

• Boost Your Bitcoin Node Sync With UTXO Snapshots

Lightning

• Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication
• Disclosure: irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions

Mining

• Radpool - Syndicated Mining Pool
  • Delving Bitcoin discussion thread
• Discouraging Pool Block Withholding Attacks in Bitcoins
• Riot is raising half a billion dollars to buy bitcoin
  • vnprc commentary

Ecash

• First ever ehash tokens minted
  • Hashpool repo
• printable ecash notes
• Bitcoin Design Guide adds an ecash section
• Cashu Blog - Buckets of blind signatures

Covenants

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

Ark

• Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Ark

Miscellaneous

• Lark - HWI reimplementation in java
  • Craig Raw announcement thread
• BDK code audit
• WabiSabi vulnerability fix