Socratic Seminar 20

[vnprc]

Welcome

Hello Bitcoiners! This is where we'll organize the topics of discussion for our upcoming Socratic Seminar.

Please use this issue to suggest topics that you'd like to see discussed at the seminar. To suggest a topic, simply add a new comment to this issue with the topic title as the comment's title.

As we work through organizing the topics, feel free to edit and update your comments as needed. This will help us keep everything organized and easy to follow.

To help get us started, here are some main topics of discussion that we could consider:

• Bitcoin Core
• Lightning Network
• Scaling
• Privacy
• Media
• Miscellaneous

• Remember, this is Bitcoin only, do not post about your favorite clown-coin.
  Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to a great seminar!

[vnprc]

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Gentle Introduction

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ACINQ | Securing a $100M Lightning node

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Proposal for a new mempool design

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Covenants in Bitcoin: A Useful Review Taxonomy

[Kaleb47]

Bitcoin Hackathons

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Starting A Bitcoin Accelerator/Educator Program in RTP

[Kaleb47]

HTLCs

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Discreet Log Contracts

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Other Layer 2 Scaling solutions or potentially start our own.

[Kaleb47]

Liquidity providing on Lightning

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Starting a Fedipool

[Kaleb47]

Bitcoin Optech workshops

[vnprc]

ChatBTC is designed to help you learn about bitcoin technology and the history of how it was built. All the data is sourced from the bitcoin-dev mailing list, Lightning dev mailing list, Bitcoin StackExchange, Bitcoin Optech, and BTC Transcripts.

https://www.chatbtc.dev/ seems to be another project in a similar vein

[jimbrend]

I want to better understand how best to automate lightning channels, some resources: How/why do big nodes mitigate issues: https://twitter.com/ambosstech/status/1685795607276113920?s=20 LND docs/lightning terminal https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/autofees Another explanation: https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/185

And ideas on how best to optimize lightning on/off ramps, if this even should be abstracted away from the everyday user, or what are the ideal scenarios to onboard/adopt more people to lightning

Example thread about the discussion how best to onboard users https://twitter.com/BTCsessions/status/1676938047047491584?s=20

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Revisiting Bitcoin Network Bandwidth Issues A deep dive into bandwidth bottlenecks and potential solutions for improving node syncing performance.

[vnprc]

This Bitcoin transaction color coder by Darius Parvin is a fantastic learning tool that visualizes and describes the different fields of a serialized bitcoin transaction.

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The Bitcoin Mailing List nostr bot posts bitcoin-dev mailing list discussion posts. It also links to NIP-23 replaceable long-form events that include metadata about the post as well as an AI generated summary.

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Milk Sad Disclosure - a critical flaw has been found in the Libbitcoin Explorer wallet tool that is actively being used to drain wallets created using this tool.