Socratic Seminar #11 Topics

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September 12, 2023 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar 11. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

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Bitcoin

From last month but we didn't get a chance to talk about it and it's an interesting topic:

• wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm core #27877

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News

• Delving Bitcoin as a new place to dig deep on Bitcoin

Bitcoin

• Sorry I had to
• Combined CTV+APO proposal
• James O'Beirne added as an author to BIP-119

Lightning

• LND Taproot channels merged

[EthnTuttle]

https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/tree/master/docker

Running Fedimint on MutinyNet.

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News

• BTCPay App announcement

[GRANTGILLIAM]

https://github.com/0xBEEFCAF3/FROST-Notebook

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News

• Yikes! Tx with 19.82 BTC Fee

• "River To Reduce Its Lightning Node Capacity Further by 48%"

New Work/Research

• "JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr", see also joinstr gitlab repo

Lightning

• Matt Morehouse, "DoS: Fake Lightning Channels"

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Lightning

• Liquidity Ads
  • "option_will_fund: liquidity ads" CLN #878
  • "interactive-tx: Add dual-funding flow, using the interactive tx protocol (feature 28/29" bolts #851

[btsea]

Some interesting Bitcoin Core PRs:

• Silent Payments: send and receive
• Make provably unsignable standard P2PK and P2MS outpoints unspendable
• p2p: Restrict self-advertisements with privacy networks to avoid fingerprinting
• p2p: Diversify automatic outbound connections with respect to networks
• (WIP) add a stratum v2 template provider