Socratic Seminar 24

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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!

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A mempool sniper bot named The Sophon has been front running new BRC-20 tokens by stealing their namespace, likely leading to a ~85% decline in mempool fees in 24 hours. https://decrypt.co/205377/a-bitcoin-devs-bot-bucked-brc-20s-now-he-might-share-the-sophon-with-the-world

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BitStream is yet another proposal for decentralized file hosting built on bitcoin. This one uses HTLCs, verifiable encryption, and a bond/slashing mechanism to punish cheating. Unlike Durabit it doesn't require (but does support) ecash but it does require OP_CAT. https://robinlinus.com/bitstream.pdf

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Payjoin v2 https://twitter.com/payjoindevkit/status/1724461173418889657

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F2Pool appears to be mining OFAC compliant blocks https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/

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Two exciting new* mining pools have been announced promising to decentralize mining. DEMAND is a new stratumV2 solo-mining pool that promises to offer hashrate resale, an important tool for miners to cover their fiat-denominated expenses. The same day (!) OG Bitcoin Core developer Luke DashJr announced the relaunch of his pool Eligius as the rebranded Ocean. Features include KYC-free accounts, transparent block templates, and coinbase payouts. They also promise to build lightning payouts for small miners and stratumV2 support. BULLISH AF 🐂

*or newly relaunched

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Use payjoin with your bitcoind wallet! https://crates.io/crates/payjoin-cli/0.0.1-alpha

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Bitcoin Core Onboarding https://bitcoincore.academy/overview.html

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Bitcoin core 26.0 released! https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/26.0/

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New bitcoin test framework from josibake and will clark https://warnet.vercel.app/ https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/warnet-simulations/232

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Peter Todd and John Light team up to create a tx relay subnet allowing unlimited OP_RETURN data size similar to how Peter created a full RBF subnet. https://twitter.com/lightcoin/status/1732634764899701053

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Bitkey opens up preorders https://bitkey.world/en-US Seth for privacy offers a deep thread on the security tradeoffs of bitkey https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1732808302164111446

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ark developer hub https://arkdev.info/

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New Strike engineering blog! The first blog post is on using peerswaps to cheaply maintain balanced lightning channels by routing the on-chain payment through Blockstream's Liquid sidechain. https://strike.me/blog/peerswaps/

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BIP21 unified payment QR codes https://bitcoinqr.dev/

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Chaincode launches a bitcoin FOSS career accelerator. https://learning.chaincode.com/#FOSS