Socratic Seminar 36

2023-04-24

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 March 27th to April 23rd.

Chain Weather Report

• Mempool
• Fees
• Lightning Network Capacity
• 95% of nostr zaps are from custodial wallets

News and Announcements

• CivKit: p2p electronic market system
• Floresta: Utreexo powered electrum server implementation
• Stratum v2 Reference Implementation (SRI) update
• RGB v0.10 release announcement
• The Bitcoin Whitepaper is hidden in every modern copy of macOS
• Nutstash (cashu wallet) adds new features
• A guide to sending ecash tokens to nostr users via cashu

Research and Development

• ZeroSync: using ZKPs to accelerate initial sync
• Sparkle: Fully Adaptive Schnorr Threshold Signatures
• Piano: Extremely Simple, Single-Server PIR with Sublinear Server Computation
• LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?

Bitcoin Core

• OP_VAULT updates - TLUVification and OP_CTV
• Mutinynet: custom signet with 30 second block times
  • The team at Mutiny also shared that they are developing synthetic dollars via DLCs (different to how stablesats work)

Lightning

• Route blinding officially added to lightning spec
• Proposed changes to splicing spec
• LDK shares their 2023 roadmap
• New LDK implementation: kuutamo lightning distribution

Q&A

• How many sigops are invalid in block 783426?
• Creating a bitcoin lock script with simple math

Misc

• Is there interest in a chat group for SF Bitdevs? If yes: what are preferences between Signal, Telegram, and other platforms?