Socratic Seminar 25

2021-10-25

General News

Stats

Fee Rates
https://transactionfee.info/charts/fees-package-feerates/
https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1438521484910075919

Mining Observer
https://miningpool.observer/

Transaction Monitor
https://mempool.observer/monitor/

LN
https://twitter.com/LNMarkets/status/1433718559306362880
https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity

https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1452731827525988360

Mining

Braidpool
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-August/019371.html

NYDIG - Net Zero https://nydig.com/research/report-bitcoin-net-zero

TSMC increases wafer prices
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/115708/bitmain-bitcoin-miner-wafer-price-increase

Base Layer

Cold Card Wallet Descriptor Support
https://blog.coinkite.com/version-4.1.3-released/

tracing: first tracepoints and documentation on User-Space, Statically Defined Tracing (USDT)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22006 https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1427755650344529927

TAPLEAF_UPDATE_VERIFY covenant opcode
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-September/019419.html

Reorgs on SigNet
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-September/019413.html

Python REST API concept in Bitcoin Core
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23309
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/23259
https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1440402791676014595

Add minisketch subtree (prep for Erlay)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23114

Libbitkernel
https://twitter.com/carl_dong/status/1448081732385771522

Lightning

Lightning Address
https://lightningaddress.com/

Agora
https://github.com/agora-org/agora

Paying frequently offline nodes
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-October/003307.html

Lightning LITE Wallet project
https://github.com/btcontract/IMMORTAN

#zerobasefee
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-August/003174.html

LN DNS Records
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-September/003224.html

Stateless Invoices with Proof of Payment
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-September/003236.html

Efficient probing
https://www.mail-archive.com/lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg02566.html