Socratic Seminar 18 Reading List (July 2023)

[satsie]

July BitDevs will be on Tuesday 7/18: https://www.meetup.com/boston-bitdevs/events/293840496/

Drop links here for the reading list!

[0xBEEFCAF3]

There was an easily exploitable uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability that existed in the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and several alternative chains.

https://invdos.net/

[0xBEEFCAF3]

LDK Node

lightningdevkit.org/blog/announcing-ldk-node/

[0xBEEFCAF3]

Block stream Jade side channel attack analysis https://blog.ledger.com/blockstream/

[0xBEEFCAF3]

VLS Beta announcment https://stacker.news/items/200847

[0xBEEFCAF3]

Many faces of schnorr https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1019

[DanGould]

We missed foundation updates last meeting

Foundation Passport v2.1.0: P2TR, BIP-85, Nostr, SeedQR Export & More

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/foundation-passport-v2-1-0/

Envoy Wallet v1.1.3: Standalone Wallet Functionality, Magic Backups

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/envoy-v1-1-3/

[sutt]

Lightning as the backbone of decentralized AI models

• or, sats as the rate limiter on crawling agents

Examples / Explanations

• https://hivemind.vc/ai/
• https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/l402
• https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1677031256134152192

Hackathon through BoltFun

• https://bolt.fun/tournaments/ai4all/overview
• Ends July 31, anyone interested in joining?

[DanGould]

Splicing Phoenix Beta

TL; DR: Splicing changes the game. Phoenix now manages a single dynamic channel, no more 1% fee on inbound liquidity, better predictability and control, trustless swaps. The new fee schedule is detailed here.

https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-splicing-update

The many faces of Schnorr (FROST & ROAST Threshold Signature Upgrade)

Offer some of the robustness to FROST that ROAST offers, but without its performance issues.

secure and robust without synchrony assumptions provides security even with an unlimited number of signing requests can be processed concurrently with minimal latency (like FROST) achieves optimal resilience.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1019

[thebrandonlucas]

Mutiny wallet beta release (i.e. first self-custodial browser-based lightning wallet/PWA -- no more asking permission!): https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-open-beta/