Socratic Seminar 43

2023-11-27

Housekeeping

• This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage, Bitrefill, and CardCoins.
• 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 October 27th to November 25th.

Chain Weather Report

• Clark Moody Dashboard
• Mempool
  • Ordpool.space
• Fees
• Lightning Network Capacity

News & Announcements

• 83.7 BTC transaction fee (highest ever in dollar terms)
• Binance and CEO Plead Guilty to Federal Charges in $4B Resolution
• Wallet of Satoshi stops serving the United States
• Taproot Wizards raises $7.5MM & hires rot13maxi as CTO
• Investigation: F2Pool Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions
  • F2Pool disabled transaction filtering patch
  • Adam Back reshares 2013 proposal for blind symmetric commitment
• BitcoinJS Vulnerability
• rot13maxi releases Sophon source to snipe BRC20 mints from the mempool
• FediMint changes consensus algorithm from HBBFT to AlephBFT
• Linux Foundation intends to stop hosting any mailing lists

Research & Whitepapers

• Better Bitcoin QR
  • Critique of bbqr based on relative maturity of Blockchain Commons UR2.0 standard
• Goldfish - a tool for spoofing wallet fingerprints
• BitStream
• Durabit
• BitEscrow
• SHA256 function for BitVM
• AJ Towns again examines lisp-variant for Script replacement
• TrueVote
• PathCoin
• nostrmint draft implementation
• Dexchain Gist Sidepit Paper

Bitcoin Core

• Segwit Ephemeral Anchors

Lightning

• Zeus v0.8.0 adds embedded node & LSP support
  • Mutiny disabled the ability to zap Zeus users
  • Mutiny re-adds option to zap hodl invoices
• BOLT12 Lightning Address Proposal