Socratic Seminar #22 Topics

[glozow]

Gathering topics to discuss.
Categories:

• News
• New Work/Research, ML posts
• Bitcoin Projects
• Lightning Projects
• Client Software Projects

[glozow]

• SIGHASH_GROUP vs Ephemeral anchors
• p2p: Make stalling timeout adaptive during IBD
• p2p: track AddrMan totals by network and table, improve precision of adding fixed seeds
• draft BIP for OP_VAULT
• mempool.space introduces block audits, more rbf data, more (can transition this to a network stats section for ~5min: Foundry nearing 40% hashrate, mempool feerates are actually interesting, largest block ever, etc.)

[glozow]

BitDevsNYC/BitDevsNYC.github.io#124

[ConorOkus]

News

• Voltage releases new LSP on testnet
• The top wallets used to make bitcoin lightning payments
• Mastering Bitcoin v3 early release
• Summer of Bitcoin applications are live

[ConorOkus]

Research

• Doing a simulation for upfront probing success rates

[ConorOkus]

Bitcoin Projects

• BDK 1.0 Incoming, the road to BDK 1.0

[ConorOkus]

Lightning Projects

• LDK Node

[stickies-v]

Bitcoin Projects

• Liana: 0.2: now with multisig! (+ general discussion about degrading timelocks and how taproot partially improves that but still requires periodically respending UTXOs without some kind of covenant)
• Ordinals and Inscriptions (and now also https://openordex.org/ with PSBTs)
• OP_CTV and SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT merged in bitcoin-inquisition
• Bitcoin Core: p2p, validation: Don't download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode merged
• Bitcoin Core: Signing support for Miniscript Descriptors merged

Research

• Fedipool: Fedimint Could Mitigate Bitcoin Mining Pool Concerns (not sure if really "research" but probably more so than news?)

New Work

• BitcoinSearch.xyz is a recently-launched search engine for Bitcoin technical documentation and discussions.