Socratic Seminar 37

2023-05-29

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 April 24th to May 26th.

Chain Weather Report

• Mempool
• Fees
• Lightning Network Capacity
• Ordinals

Releases

• Bitcoin Core 25.0.0 Released
• Core Lightning 23.05 adds support for blinded payments and PSBTv2

News & Announcements

• Fedi alpha available for testing
• Signet Mutiny Wallet is available for testing with lightning and LSP support
• Burak announces Ark
  • Mailing list post - received feedback from ZmnSCP and others
• Brink & Marathon raising $1MM for Bitcoin Core development
• Mempool.space announces accelerator for transactions stuck in the mempool
  • Likely to make fee estimation more difficult?
• Boltz adds Liquid <-> Lightning atomic swaps
  • Will this bring new users to Liquid? Avoiding the 102 block confirmations for peg-ins makes onboarding much easier.

Bitcoin Core

• Suhas proposes a new mempool design
• Joost Jager considers transaction relay via Nostr
• ZeroSync publishes summary of their research including zkCoins writeup
  • We discussed chain state proofs last seminar, but not zkCoins
• Interactive Payment Batching w/ Payjoin

Lightning

• Request for feedback on LSP spec
• Liquidity griefing for 0-conf dual-funded channels