Socratic Seminar #7 Topics

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May 9, 2023 @ 5:00p

Add comments below to add or comment on topics for Socratic Seminar #7. See also "Where to Find Topics for Future Seminars".

Categories:

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

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News

• Update on our (Block) bitcoin mining ASIC program
• Interview with Lightspark CEO David Marcus

New Work/Research

• Rust library for Cashu

Bitcoin Projects

• Mutiny Node v0.2.6: BDK Core + IndexedDB

Lightning Projects

• Taproot and MuSig2 recap
• Taproot Channel Transactions

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New Work/Research

• Consider Removing Message Signing

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Bitcoin Projects

• Bitcoin Stackexchange: "...run a node with a bigger than default mempool?"
• "Package Relay Project Tracking" Core #27463

Lightning Projects

• "Implement pending claim rebroadcast on force-closed channels" LDK #2208

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https://github.com/NashBitDevs/nashbitdevs.org/issues/7#issuecomment-1507812081

^ this one we were too late on last month because it had just come out, so if we do want to include for this month

Lightning Projects

• Spiral Quarterly Update Q2 2023

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Not my favorite topic, but folks may want to know what BRC-20 tokens are, so putting this for discussion at end of meeting:

Bitcoin

• DDOS attack via BRC-20 & ordinals on Bitcoin

EDIT: put in recent stack exchange article instead of BRC-20 explanation.