Socratic Seminar 24 Reading List (June 18, 2024)

[satsie]

https://www.meetup.com/boston-bitdevs/events/301432750

Drop links here!

[0xBEEFCAF3]

Fed Up Cov https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2024/05/29/fed-up-covenants/

[0xBEEFCAF3]

Quantum resitance addresses https://github.com/cryptoquick/bips/blob/p2qrh/bip-p2qrh.mediawiki

[john-light]

Risk analysis framework for bitcoin L2s and sidechains https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proposed-risk-framework-for-bitcoin-l2s-and-sidechains/933

[john-light]

"ZK Rollup on Bitcoin" whitepaper, or "How to build a trustless two-way BTC peg" https://github.com/alpenlabs/Technical-Whitepaper/blob/main/whitepaper_v085.pdf

[john-light]

CISA research https://cisaresearch.org/

[john-light]

Utreexo beta release: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/5GyV9af9lv4

[0xBEEFCAF3]

https://github.com/rustyrussell/bips/blob/guilt/varops/bip-unknown-var-budget-script.mediawiki

[john-light]

SNARKnado: a practical, round-efficient SNARK verifier on bitcoin https://www.alpenlabs.io/blog/snarknado-practical-round-efficient-snark-verifier-on-bitcoin

[delbonis]

https://github.com/supertestnet/hedgehog

Hedgehog - A protocol for improved layer two bitcoin payments

[delbonis]

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/64-bit-arithmetic-soft-fork/397/49

64 bit arithmetic soft fork

[delbonis]

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/mutual-exclusiveness-of-op-codes/890

Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive?

especially post from ajtowns

[delbonis]

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-September/020937.html

[bitcoin-dev] New transaction policies (nVersion=3) for contracting protocols

More on v3 txs:

• Activation PR to Core https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29496
• BIP-431 https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0431.mediawiki
• Optech topic list https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/version-3-transaction-relay/

[john-light]

Wasabi Wallet coinjoin coordinator shuts down... https://x.com/wasabiwallet/status/1786083838415769673

... then 10 new coordinators appear: https://x.com/nopara73/status/1797232582003691699

FreeSabi bot tracking wabisabi coordinator liquidity: https://x.com/FreeSabiBot

[sutt]

Dev Bounties with Bitcoin

• Stacker News policy and results
• Sphinx bounty platform
• Fundsolver platform (with nostr!)
• Also, Zeus, Mostro

[satsie]

Thanks all for the contributions to the reading list! Closing this issue now that June's event is over. Next Boston BitDevs will be in September :)