Socratic Seminar #14 Topics

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December 12, 2023 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar 13. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

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News

• WSJ "Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Agrees to Step Down, Plead Guilty"
• "Atomicals" project learns why not to use SIGHASH_NONE

[matthiasdebernardini]

News

• "Six OFAC-sanctioned transactions missing" 0xB10C

[reez]

News

• Spiral Grant for PM Will Clark
• Spiral Grant for ZeroSync
• Open Sats Grant for Dev Will Clark
• Wallet of Satoshi removes app from US app stores

Bitcoin

• Ocean Mining

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Bitcoin

• "DEMAND Launches The First Stratum V2 Bitcoin Mining Pool" - Bitcoin Magazine
  • DEMAND Pool site

[reez]

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Core 26.0 released

[reez]

Lightning

• LDK PR to support forwarding as the intro node on BOLT12 Offers Tracking Issue

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Research

• "Cluster mempool theory" sipa

News

• Bitkey Pre-orders
• Ocean Mining
  • LukeDashjr on filtering coinjoins

Lightning

• "[Lightning-dev] Liquidity Ads: Updated Spec Posted, please review"
• "Improve swap-in protocol with taproot and musig2" lightning-kmp #563

Bitcoin

• "Decentralized Mining Pools for Bitcoin" Bob McElrath

[reez]

News

• Bitkey shares their Recovery Design

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Adding one final news item since this is public policy month at the park (and this is an important recent development):

News

• "U.S. Treasury Seeks Massive Expansion of Warrantless Surveillance & Powers to Sanction Open-Source Software" nobsbitcoin

And another bitcoin-ish related item:

Bitcoin

• "Better Bitcoin Terms..."

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A couple more late additions from me and @reez:

bitcoin

• bitcoin core old version support
  • bitcoin core "Software Life Cycle"
  • "Building Bitcoin Core v0.7 and Earlier" lopp