June 2023 Meeting Topics

[dragon-foobar]

Link anything you'd like to discuss: news, demos, drama, whatever!

[ttiiggss]

Would love to have a group discussion regarding RGB - The more the merrier in this topic I think!

Here is the blackpaper (it's a long paragraph so nothing too big but highlights the benefits of RGB) https://github.com/RGB-WG/blackpaper

[thomasWos]

Interesting usage of Bitcoin security for many chains. Basically add a timestamp to Bitcoin as a checkpoint.

Mentioned as reason #6 in the following article: https://coincheckup.com/blog/7-reasons-why-bitcoin-is-bullish-right-now/

https://www.babylonchain.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2EU4UHbU0

https://babylonscan.io/ - Currently in testnet

https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-bitcoin-can-help-secure-proof-of-stake-blockchain-protocols

[BBlackwo]

As discussed in the Telegram chat...

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Modifying Open Source Projects

[nickfarrow]

Adding and Removing Multisig Signers with FROST (Let's just cover overview of what's possible) https://gist.github.com/nickfarrow/64c2e65191cde6a1a47bbd4572bf8cf8/

[nickfarrow]

Tor introduces proof-of-work https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt https://darknetone.com/tor-merges-proof-of-work-to-combat-ddos-attacks/

[nickfarrow]

Alternate routing plugin for Core LN https://github.com/ffaex/altpay

[nickfarrow]

Do most inscriptions belong to a single entity? https://block21m.substack.com/p/most-bitcoin-inscriptions-belong-d6d

actually it's just a paid inscription service https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1663383996561072129?s=46

[nickfarrow]

Drama and overreactions surrounding moderation on bitcoin mailing list. But is change needed? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021734.html

[nickfarrow]

The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces

an apparently custom ECDSA/Bitcoin implementation that has been used to empty hundreds of compromised Bitcoin addresses for many years.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/841

[BBlackwo]

LDK Node

More tooling to make building on lightning easier!

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

(No BS Bitcoin Summary)