Announcements

Please join us for our inaugral Socratic Seminar in the city of Victoria. Please make sure you are RSVP’d, an identifier (but not a full name) is required for entry.

As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:

1. No photos, videos, or recordings
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Opt-in full-RBF - Zero-conf apps in immediate danger, one response
• Package Relay Proposal, Optech summary

lightning-dev

• Channel Jamming countermeasures
• Mitigating Channel Jamming with Reputation Credentials: a Protocol Sketch, proposal summary
• Mitigating Channel Jamming with Upfront fee, proposal summary

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 26631 add coverage for dust mempool policy (-dustrelayfee setting) (tests)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • January 19th
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • January 16th

Optech

• Newsletter #231 - 2022 Year-in-Review, audio recap
• Newsletter #233, audio recap
• Newsletter #234, audio recap

Network Data

• Bitcoin Mining Map
• monitor fullrbf replacements
• top fee-earning lightning routing nodes 2022

Research

• Bitcoin Security-Latency Under Network Delay
• (Concurrently Secure) Blind Schnorr from Schnorr
• Do Not Rug on Me: Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Scam Detection
• Jolt: Recovering TLS Signing Keys via Rowhammer Faults
• Stateful Layered Chain Model to Improve the Scalability of Bitcoin
• Stronger Security and Generic Constructions for Adaptor Signatures
• Threshold Signatures with Private Accountability

InfoSec

• Luke lost his coins, one postmortem
• BinaryWatch.org

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• rpc: Return fee and prevout (utxos) to getrawtransaction
• p2p: Erlay support signaling follow-up, erlay pr

lnd

• pathfinding: capacity-dependent apriori model probability
• kvdb: add sqlite

eclair

• Improve htlc_maximum_msat in channel updates
• Create routes to self using remote alias

c-lightning

• reckless, plugin manager
• Offers: bolt12 updated for latest draft
• Blinded paths cross-compatibility issues

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 - mempoolfullrbf, sendall rpc, new headers dl logic, more
• Core Lightning v22.11 , blog - reckless plugin manager, splicing scaffolding, more
• eclair v0.8.0 - zero-conf channels, channel aliases, BOLT 12 scaffolding
• libsecp256k1 v0.2.0 - schnorrsig, extrakeys and ECDH made default
• Phoenix v1.4.24 - LNURL-auth updates
• specter-desktop v1.14.0 - taproot psbt fields
• Tor Browser v12.0 - m1 support, https-only by default
• RTL v13.4-beta - 2FA Hotfix

Events and Podcasts

• OP_VAULT & Bitcoin Governance
• Solving Lightning Channel Jamming
• SLP438 Lawrence Nahum - RBF, Green, Jade, BuildonL2
• SLP447 K3tan 2022 Year in review

Mining

• B.C. pauses new electrical connections for mining
• Coinmetric’s State of the Network’s Q4 2022 Mining Data Special
• How Does the Current Bitcoin Mining Bear Market Compare to Previous Ones?

Miscellaneous

• Taro: A new asset issuance protocol on Bitcoin
• Lightning Privacy Research
• Miner centralization debate rages on…
• NYDIG research on bitcoin development
• Nostr catches fire
• Emerging markets powering lightning growth

Beginner Learning Resources

• The Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin podcast series
• Bitcoin Infographics
• Book recommendation - The Bullish case for Bitcoin

Meme of the day

• Bitcoiners vs Gold Bugs