Socratic Seminar 11

2019-06-24

News

Largest Coinjoin Tx
https://blockstream.info/tx/ebc9b72bbba2e0ac322eb53e617ab5c3cd7076cfed35813ef7f74021d06266d0

Core Dev Tech Transcripts
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/

Facebook Coin
https://github.com/libra/libra

Upcoming vuln disclosure for pre-v0.17.1 releases
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-June/017040.html

Rambleed
https://rambleed.com/

Firefox zero-day used to target exchanges
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/24/mozilla-patched-two-firefox-zero-day-flaws-in-one-week/

Stats

0.18 adoption
https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/branches.html

BTC in P2SH outputs
https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/p2sh-statistics?orgId=1

New Work & Research

Statechains
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2019-06-07-statechains/

ECDH for spontaneous payments
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-June/002009.html

Elligator Squared
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/043.pdf

v2 p2p protocol
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2019-06-06-taproot/

Bip Taproot Discussion
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2019-06-06-taproot/

Extracting seeds from hardware wallets
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/breaking-bitcoin/2019/extracting-seeds-from-hardware-wallets/

UTreeXO
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2019-06-06-utreexo/

zk-SNARKs without trusted setup
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/550

Bitcoin PRs

Security Policy
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16140

Remove -mempoolreplacement to prevent needless block prop slowness
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16171

Lightning PRs ⚡

c-lightning: Don't delete channels
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2768

LND: Prometheus support https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/3134

LND: Integrate altruist watchtower and client in LND
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/3133

LND: Bumpfee support in LND RPC
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/3140

LND: Probability-based pathfinding
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2802

LND: Async payment RPC
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2973