Socratic Seminar 33

2023-01-30

Housekeeping

This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage and Bitrefill.
Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!
Socratic Seminars are held under the Chatham House Rule: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.
For the privacy of other attendees, please refrain from taking photographs of other people without their permission.
Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused.
The reading list covers November 28th to January 30th.

Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 Released
- At least 17% of v24.x listening nodes are running full-rbf This data is also an underestimate: I'm only measuring successful propagation.
RBF Replacement Monitor
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miners who have made a long-term capital investment in mining equipment might instead prefer to optimize fee income over multiple blocks It's also possible that owners of ASICs or pool operators will decide that they're in this for the long term, and therefore that it's smarter to look at fee income over multiple blocks, rather than taking each block as its own entity. Similar to treating the prisoner's dilemma as a one-off game (where the dominant strategy is to always defect) versus an iterated game (where cooperation or tit-for-tat may be better strategies).
Why Full-RBF Makes DoS Attacks on Multiparty Protocols Significantly More Expensive
Full RBF double-spend mined