Socratic Seminar 34

[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]

BOLT12 Offers merged after 4 years
lightning/bolts#798

[vnprc]

2023 Brink Annual Report
https://brink.dev/blog/2024/09/25/2023-annual-report/

Report covers the contributions of the 6 bitcoin core contributors that Brink funds, focusing primarily on code review and testing rather than headline-grabbing projects.

[vnprc]

Saving Satoshi script editor
https://script.savingsatoshi.com/

[vnprc]

Bitdevs musig2 merged to libsecp256k1
https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1843311745860849940

[vnprc]

Research proceeds on using Functional Encryption to implement covenants on bitcoin with no fork
https://x.com/_weidai/status/1843526255045685253

[vnprc]

Hash-Based Signature Schemes for Post-Quantum Bitcoin
https://conduition.io/cryptography/quantum-hbs/

[vnprc]

Libbitcoin for Core People
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/libbitcoin-for-core-people/1222?u=antoinep

[vnprc]

BTCPayServer 2.0 release
https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-2-0/

[vnprc]

i haven't read it but Rijndael said I should so it goes on the list lol
https://bitkey.build/building-in-the-open/

[vnprc]

ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions
https://colliderscript.co/colliderscript.pdf

[vnprc]

Jonas Nick tweets about learnings from his Great Script Restoration script tool
https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1854552545084977320

[vnprc]

Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades
https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap

[vnprc]

Ark Labs: Unlocking Liquidity Before Shared Output Expiration
https://arkdev.info/blog/unlock-liquidity-before-shared-output-expiration/

[jimbrend]

oh derp made PR for the site and didn't see topics in an issue yet, i put them in there already and corrected it's technically 35 I guess if tabonf was 34 :)

Topic suggestions are in the PR rn too- BTCPay quoting below already mentioned above

• Spark.info by Lightspark and discussing stablecoin usage in Global south etc.
  https://x.com/buildonspark/status/1853503756027256990

@vnprc edit: better link: https://spark.info/

[jimbrend]

BTCPayServer 2.0 release https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-2-0/

i also tested this out on Umbrel and updated it, and it looks like all but 4 plugin maintainers updated to 2.0 now too of the over dozen or so plugins on BTCPay you can install, which was pretty quick adoption I think seeing how all maintainers would find their plugins showing this and requiring BTCPay runners to go through the Update checklist if they rely on a plugin...

[jimbrend]

DATUM by @ocean_mining is now live on the Umbrel app store
https://x.com/umbrel/status/1854130368418648499

I could use Tailscale to check it out for a few minutes and install it

[jimbrend]

Posting by Lightning Labs on Taproot Assets, also in LND's Lightning Terminal...

DePix on Taproot Assets - the first natively issued stablecoin using the protocol to integrate with mainnet LN!! ⚡️
...Eulen announced a natively issued Brazilian real stablecoin via Taproot Assets!

https://x.com/RyanTheGentry/status/1854943134964498811
https://github.com/lightninglabs/taproot-assets
https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets

@vnprc edit: better link https://bitcoinnews.com/press-release/joltz-eulen-stablecoin-on-lightning-depix/

[vnprc]

Ephemeral Dust outputs merged
bitcoin/bitcoin#30239
https://x.com/theinstagibbs/status/1856511178261868616