Announcements

Please join us for our second 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

• OP_VAULT Proposal
• BIP324

lightning-dev

• Highly Available Lightning Channels
• Channel jamming mitigation call summary

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 26695 bench BlockAssembler on a mempool with packages (bench)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • February 14th
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • February 13th

Optech

• Newsletter #238, audio recap
• Newsletter #237, audio recap
• Newsletter #236, audio recap

Network Data

• Wallet of Satoshi lightning transactions
• Bitcoin tied to QuadrigaCX on the move
• Lightning Network capacity reaches all time new BTC high

Research

• (Concurrently Secure) Blind Schnorr from Schorr
• A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage
• An analysis of the decentralization and effectiveness of Lightning Network
• Topological Evolution Analysis of Payment Channels in Lightning Network

InfoSec

• BTCPayserver Vulnerability disclosure, announcement

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• Reduce default mempool size in –blocksonly mode
• rpc: add minconf/maxconf options to sendall and fund transaction calls

Lightning PRs

LND

• Pathfinding: capacity-dependent apriori model probability
• Pathfinding: probability for bimodal distribution

New Releases

• RTL 0.13.6

Events and Podcasts

• BTC:116 - Bitcoin Ordinals & NFTs on Layer1 of Bitcoin
• SLP456 - Casey Rodarmor What are Ordinals
• CD91: Ordinal Inscriptions with Rodarmor

Mining

• Ongoing Taproot transaction analysis

Miscellaneous

• Breeze SDK for developers on Lightning
• Ordinals Overview
• Inscribing Ordinals
• Ordinal Disrespector
• Andrew Poelstra’s email
• Ordinals hype ebbing?
• Damus Approved on App Store
• Onboarding to Nostr
• Jason Lowery Thesis Published
• Bitcoin core maintainer Marco Falke steps down

Beginner Learning Resources

• Book recommendation - Layered Money by Nik Bhatia
• Proof of work
• What is a hash
• Bitcoin Script
• Assumevalid explainer
• Segwit
• Weight Units

Meme of the day

• CBDCs are coming