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Socratic Seminar 13 #3

Closed jesseaam closed 1 year ago

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Please post here to add any topics you would like to discuss at the next socratic seminar.

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Bitcoin Core

BIP 351

A stealth address protocol for Bitcoin - makes it possible for two parties to transact using addresses that only they can calculate.

Notes This is done using exclusively on-chain methods and in a manner that minimizes blockchain footprint. **Example use case scenario**: anytime an XPUB might otherwise be shared, or where a static address could be a breach of privacy. * **donations**: Bob runs a website that accepts donations. Instead of having a static bitcoin address that everybody can see, he instead puts a Private Payments payment code on his website. Alice and Carol can use this payment code to generate separate stealth addresses that they can privately donate to. * **Payroll** don't want employer to have XPUB and thus know every address you have. * **Honor System Stand** - better than static address or running server with XPUB.
jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Lightning

Taro alpha release

Lightning Labs has released the taro daemon alpha. Despite what the name might imply the taro daemon is not a little monster that steals your root vegetables, it is a tool to issue and transfer assets on bitcoin and lightning. Check out this blog post for the English explanation or the repo if you want to get technical.



Onion Messages and Asynchronous Lightning Payments

LDK developer vallywal explains how onion messages not only unlock bolt12 offers and blinded routes, but the combination of onion messages and PTLCs enable async payments over lightning that don’t lock up network liquidity. Really tho, the awesomest part of this blog post is all the 🔥 diagrams.

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Lightning && Privacy

LN-Vortex

ln-vortex is a tool written in scala that allows coinjoin lightning channel opens. Ben Carman and @deregs_ just opened the first mainnet vortex coinjoin.

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Scalability

Taro Skepticism

A critical look at the scalability properties of the Taro protocol if deployed on the bitcoin blockchain

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Miscellaneous

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Lightning && DLCs

DLC On Lightning

Crypto Garage has opened and closed the first mainnet lightning channel to contain a DLC. Read their blog post to see how they did it and why they did it that way.

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Scaling

CoinPool Research

New coinpool site dropped. In his twitter announcement Gleb says they'll be tracking R&D progress here. This format should be much more digestible than the whitepaper.

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Lightning && Privacy

Lightning Privacy Research

This new site details the current state of lightning privacy research. Noice!

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Privacy

Void

Void is a work-in-progress bitcoin wallet that only sends and receives coinjoins.

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Chaumian Ecash

Anonsats

Anonsats is a Chaumian ecash payment and settlement system built on bitcoin, lightning, and cashu.

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Lightning

eclair-v0.8.0.md

The latest Eclair release adds official support for zero-conf channels and channel aliases. It also adds experimental support for dual-funding and a lot of preparatory work for Bolt 12 offers.

vnprc commented 1 year ago

Miscellaneous

Binary Watch

Coinkite has released Binarywatch.org, a new service that monitors the checksums of various bitcoin software project binaries to ensure that they match the trusted release keys for each project.

Lightning

Mitigating Channel Jamming with Reputation Credentials

Antoine Riard has written a new BOLT proposal to solve channel jamming using a reputation credential scheme. Each node supporting this scheme issues tokens to peers that can be redeemed to create an HTLC forward with that peer. Nodes are free to experiment with different token and issuance designs without network wide coordination.

CLN v22.11 release

Blockstream has announced a new CLN release titled "Alameda Yield Generator" that includes a new plugin manager tool, improvements to autoclean, and a new filter API. This release marks the first to use a new date-based semantic versioning scheme.

What are the differences between LND and CLN?

Voltage released a nice blog post summarizing the main differences between the two primary LN node implementations: CLN and LND. I look forward to sharing this blog post widely since this is a very common question.

jesseaam commented 1 year ago

Podcasts

Coin Stories

Knut Svanholm: Why Bitcoin is Better Money Worth a listen. Knut Svanholm has an engaging conversation with Natalie Brunell talking about the most important Discovery of our time. Big picture thinking on Bitcoin. ∞ / 21mil


Bitcoin Explained

The Tornado Cash Trial A good introduction to the tornado cash matter and the arrest of Alexy Pertsev. Aaron and Sjors provide a high-level description of what was going on, it’s relevance to bitcoin, and even mention Wasabi Wallet at one point. A key point is that it is still unclear exactly which angle the prosecution is going to argue. They postponed the trial for another three months, at which time the prosecutor will have to provide a more detailed description of the charges.