Socratic Seminar #20 Topics

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June 18, 2024 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar 20. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

[notmandatory]

News

• Bitcoin Core vulnerability disclosure policy discussions report
• Proof-of-work based signet faucet
• [bitcoindev] BIP 21 Updates

Research

• BIP 337: Compressed Transactions
• Silent Payments
  • Silent Payments: Light Client Protocol

Bitcoin

• Add HKDF to bitcoin_hashes rust-bitcoin #2644
• Proposed BIP text for Miniscript
• Utreexod beta release
• Add bdk_sqlite crate implementing SQLite based wallet data storage bdk #1128

Lightning

• Ignore --ignore-fee-rates on mutual close, don't massively overpay with LDK nodes core-lightning #7252

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News

• Spiral grant to Bitcoin Design Foundation
• Spiral grant to Sean Gilligan
• HRF grants
• Japanese DMM Bitcoin Exchange Hacked

Research

• Introducing Ark Labs

Bitcoin

• Descriptor based wallets
  • Updated: Casa
  • New: Volt
  • Overview: outputdescriptors.org

Lightning

• Lightning Invoice Decoder
  • Lipa
  • Amboss