Socratic Seminar #4 Topics

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Feb 7, 2023 @ 5:30p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar #4. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

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New Work/Research

• "Vaults and Covenants" by James O'Beirne

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News

• The Breez SDK repo is now public
• River shipped an update to their open-source Elixir Bitcoin library which now supports Schnorr signatures
• Spiral Quarterly Update Q1 2023

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New Work/Research

• Braiins article on Why Pools Mine Empty Blocks and How Stratum V2 Fixes This

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Not sure if this goes under New Work/Research or Bitcoin Projects

• Inscriptions are finally ready for Bitcoin mainnet with ord version 0.4.0 release

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Not sure if this goes under New Work/Research or Bitcoin Projects

* [Inscriptions](https://rodarmor.com/blog/inscribing-mainnet/) are finally ready for Bitcoin mainnet with ord version 0.4.0 [release](https://github.com/casey/ord/releases/tag/0.4.0)

I'll put it under Bitcoin Projects since we have enough news.

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Here's a mobile, unified on-chain+LN, LSP proposal, I haven't dug too deep into it but from the intro looks interesting to discuss:

New Work/Research

[Lightning-dev] Swap-in-Potentiam: Moving Onchain Funds "Instantly" To Lightning

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For the inscriptions stuff it's probably also worth including this:

Eric Wall's fully onchain-inscribed (360kb) Bitcoin NFT and inscription transaction

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The entire Spiral team will be present, so we're happy to address any topics from our newsletter (posted above) or anything else Spiral related.

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AJ sketches out a way to do proof of payment for async payments https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-January/003833.html

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I'm also adding a link about the new WIP BDK 1.0 work:

WIP BDK 1.0 Staging