Socratic Seminar 7

2019-02-25

News

CVE-2018–20587
https://medium.com/@lukedashjr/cve-2018-20587-advisory-and-full-disclosure-a3105551e78b

Pieter Quizzes Us Again
https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1098651788343955456

Bitcoin over Amateur Radio
https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617

Stats

LN Stats
https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning

Segwit Stats
https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit

New Work & Research

Miniscript - Pieter Wuille
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/miniscript.html
https://prezi.com/view/KH7AXjnse7glXNoqCxPH/
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/stanford-blockchain-conference/2019/miniscript/

RBF Survey
https://bitcoinops.org/en/rbf-in-the-wild/

Turbo Channels
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/issues/565

Safer NO_INPUT With Output Tagging
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-February/016667.html

Hardware Wallet Interaction Tool (HWI)
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI

Proof of Reserves Tool
https://blockstream.com/2019/02/04/standardizing-bitcoin-proof-of-reserves/

Bitcoin PRs

Script Descriptor Checksums
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15368

Remove use of chainActive and mapBlockIndex in wallet code
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14711

Add deriveaddress RPC Call
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14667

MuSig Merged into secp256k1-zkp
https://blockstream.com/2019/02/18/musig-a-new-multisignature-standard/
https://github.com/ElementsProject/secp256k1-zkp/pull/35

Ongoing Wallet Separation Refactor
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15288
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15288

Script Descriptors & Importmulti
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14021
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14491
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14565
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14075

Code Style Discussion
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/15465

Lightning PRs ⚡

LND: Add SubscribeChannels RPC
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1988

LND: CLTV Limit
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2640