Socratic Seminar 31 - July 2024

[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]

joinstr v0.1.0 release notes https://gitlab.com/invincible-privacy/joinstr/-/blob/main/doc/release-notes/plugin/release-notes-v0.1.0.md

[johnny9]

Bitcoin Core release 27.1 https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/27.1/

[vnprc]

LND DoS vulnerability disclosure https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-onion-bomb/

[vnprc]

Ecash

GNU Taler https://taler.net/en/features.html

Blinded Auth Tokens are happening https://blog.mutinywallet.com/blinded-authentication/ https://one.google.com/about/vpn/howitworks

[vnprc]

Strike launches BOLT12 playground docker stack https://strike.me/blog/bolt12-playground/

[vnprc]

Burak's at it again! Redefining an entire subdomain of bitcoin with an innovative new rollup design based on vTXOs. https://brqgoo.medium.com/introducing-brollups-18ec4081f6e7

Recommended prerequisite reading: https://bitcoinrollups.org/

[vnprc]

detailed technical writeup on silent payments https://medium.com/@ottosch/how-silent-payments-work-41bea907d6b0