Socratic Seminar #9 Topics

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July 11, 2023 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar #8. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

• Events
• News
• New Work/Research
• Bitcoin Projects
• Lightning Projects

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Lightning

• Announcing LDK Node
• Voltage Surge
  • Every Company Will Be A Lightning Company
• Securing a $100M Lightning node

Bitcoin

• PUTTING THE B IN BTC by Anthony Towns
• Coldcard Miniscript

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Lightning

• VLS (the Validating Lightning Signer) Beta release

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Bitcoin

• PDK Payjoin Dev Kit

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Not sure which bucket these blogs fit in best if you're interested in adding them to our list

• MAKE 12 WORDS THE STANDARD by Foundation
• Passphrases Are Not the Solution for Bitcoin Custody by Hugo Nguyen
• Block's Bitkey "Hardware Wallet" will Violate your Privacy and Security by Zach Herbert

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News

• "Custodian Prime Trust suspends withdrawals following sale failure"

Lightning

• Core Lightning #6334 updates and expands CLN’s experimental support for anchor outputs (see Newsletter #111 for CLN’s initial implementation). Some of the updates in this PR include enabling experimental support for zero-fee HTLC anchors and adding configurable checks to ensure the node has at least the minimum amount of emergency funds it needs to operate an anchor channel.

• LDK #2294 "BOLT 12 Offers message handling support"

• Eclair v0.9.0 release sets stage for dual funding, splicing, and BOLT12

Bitcoin

• BIPs #1452 updates the BIP329 specification for a wallet label export format with a new optional spendable tag that indicates whether the associated output should be spendable by the wallet. Many wallets implement coin control features that allow a user to tell the coin selection algorithm to not spend certain outputs, such as outputs that might reduce the user’s privacy.

• BDK PR #840 "Add taproot descriptor template, BIP-0086"

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New Work/Research

• Codex32
  • BDK Issue #1027 "Support for codex32/BIP93 seed import"

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Discussion topics posted: https://nashbitdevs.org/socratic-seminar-9/