August 2023 Meeting Topics

[nickfarrow]

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

[nickfarrow]

Milk Sad

Command line tool bx from libbitcoin (recommended in Mastering Bitcoin) has a severe lack of entropy for creating seeds. Some wallets are said to be using this tool. Likely millions of dollars stolen.

https://milksad.info/

[M3rkl3-Tr33]

The Guys behind cDc Just did a presentation @ DEFCON31 https://gitlab.com/veilid https://veilid.com/Launch-Slides-Veilid.pdf Looks to be a New TOR Framework might be early days yet. A pod for more info... https://duo.com/decipher/decipher-podcast-katelyn-bowden-and-tc-johnson https://veilid.com/ Intro maybe https://www.engadget.com/americas-original-hacking-supergroup-creates-a-free-framework-to-improve-app-security-190043865.html

[ttiiggss]

A unique bitcoin-denominated investment vehicle designed to capitalize on anticipated ASIC market rebounds ahead of the next Bitcoin halving in 2024.

https://habla.news/u/Blockstream@blockstream.com/1692157352910

might not be bitdevs related but seemed intriguing!

[ttiiggss]

The First Native Nostr Assets Protocol (uses bitcoin taproot)

https://doc.nostrassets.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXrY8gnSmsA

[BBlackwo]

Tornado Cash Developers Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations by US Govt

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tornado-cash-developers-charged-with-money-laundering-and-sanctions-violations/

[BBlackwo]

Tor launched proof of work defence for onion services

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tor-launched-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-services/

[BBlackwo]

Miniscript (from Trick):

I’m gonna forget if I don’t say this now but if we have time can we touch on miniscript? They’re trying to enable more complex utxo ownership incl timestamp or blockheight ( I think)

https://fountain.fm/episode/JfTKfsIQUhBHSf1Hmcd2

[smolgrrr]

Drivechains 😅

[nickfarrow]

Private Collaborative Custody with FROST (if you don't cover this month, ill be there to explain next month)

https://twitter.com/utxoclub/status/1696458566658376119

[matias-seer]

Green light https://blockstream.com/lightning/greenlight/

[BBlackwo]

Other topics discussed:

• BTC Sessions - Using dice to create a wallet
• Discreet Log Contracts
• Mutiny building "Synthetic dollars via DLCs" - https://blog.mutinywallet.com/introducing-mutiny/
• Bitaxe - https://github.com/skot/bitaxe