Socratic Seminar #10 Topics

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August 15, 2023 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar 10. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

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News

• Bitcoin Development support

• OpenSats: Long-Term Support Program for Bitcoin Core Developers
• OpenSats: First Wave of Bitcoin Grants
• Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation

New Work/Research

• Block: Update on the Mining Development Kit

Bitcoin

• Covenants in Bitcoin: A Useful Review Taxonomy by Rusty Russell

Lightning

• Introducing the new Phoenix: a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet

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News

• Mutiny Wallet Open Beta
  • Android
  • How the Voltage LSP Enhances Privacy for Mutiny Wallet Users
• Binance Completes Integration of Bitcoin (BTC) on Lightning Network, Opens Deposits and Withdrawals
  • When Taproot?

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Bitcoin

• Introducing Frostsnap

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Lightning

• Lightning Everywhere by Tony Giorgio

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News

• Chaincode Labs is running 6-week seminars in Bitcoin Protocol Development and Lighting Protocol Development in September

Lightning

• Lightning Dev Kit blog posts
  • Anchor Outputs Channels Are Here
  • Mutiny uses LDK to create the first lightning wallet for the web

"Bitcoin" -or- "New Work / Research"

• Libbitcoin's Bitcoin Explorer writeup

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Bitcoin

• [bitcoin-dev] Pull-req to remove the arbitrary limits on OP_Return outputs
  • "Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default" core #28130

Lightning

• HTLC Endorsement
  • [Lightning-dev] Jamming Mitigation Dry Run

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Research

• [Lightning-dev] option_simple_close for "unfailable" closing

Bitcoin

• wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm core #27877
• BDK 1.0 Roadmap

Lightning

• Add quiescence negotiation eclair #2680

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*I'm late on this one so we can just mention it ad-hoc if needed during the seminar

Events

• TabConf 2023 in Atlanta September 6th - 9th, 2023