Announcements

Please join us for our fourth 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

• Proposal to Remove BIP35 P2P ‘mempool’ Message
• Spiral is Hiring Bitcoin Wizards

lightning-dev

• Resizing Lightning Channels Off-Chain With Hierarchical Channels
• Taproot Channel Transactions

Meetings

Bitcoin Core Meetings

• April 13th
• April 20th

  Lightning Specification Meetings

• April 10th
• April 24th

Optech

• Optech Newsletter #246, audio recap
• Optech Newsletter #247, audio recap
• Optech Newsletter #248
• Optech Newsletter #249

Network Data

• Wallet of Satoshi processes 843,000+ Lightning Payments
• Taproot Signal - Block metrics

Research

• CaSCaDE: (Time-Based) Cryptography from Space Communications Delay
• Batch Signatures, Revisited
• A summary on the FRI low degree test
• Get Me out of This Payment! Bailout: An HTLC Re-routing Protocol

InfoSec

• Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
• Google’s update of its 2FA Authenticator app with the ability to sync secrets across devices
• Apple Releases Updates to Address Zero-Day Flaws in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari
• You Can Buy a Hacked Credit Card for Only $15, A Verified Binance Account for $410
• Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling
• BitGo Wallet Zero Proof Vulnerability: Technical Report
• Lazarus hackers now push Linux malware via fake job offers

New Releases

• LND v0.16.2
• Litd v0.9.1
• Phoenix wallet release new version on iOS with Tor support

Events and Podcasts

• PMing Bitcoin core
• Scaling Bitcoin Privacy with Calle

Mining

• Block with 6.7 BTC mining fee
• Intel Discontinues Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips, No Future Gens Announced

Miscellaneous

• A History of Bitcoin Maximalism
• ZeroSync and Blockstream to Broadcast Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Space
• Bitcoin Whitepaper hidden in every modern copy of macOS
• Bull Bitcoin Launches No KYC Bitcoin Purchases with Cash or Debit
• New HRF Grants for Bitcoin Development to Support 12 Projects Worldwide
• OpenSats Receives Additional Funding of $10m

  Ordinals

• BRC-20
• Surge in Ordinal Inscriptions
• BRC-20 Tokens
• Ordiscan
• Ordisrespector

  Nostr

• Why I’m Betting Big on Nostr
• Nostr DID Method Specification

  AI

• Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town
• MIT research on ChatGPT shows ‘Industrial Revolution-level large’ leap for workers
• Cody - Read, write, and understand code 10x faster with AI
• Google I/O 2023: Making AI more helpful for everyone

Beginner Learning Resources

• Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
• Book Recommendation - The Little Bitcoin Book
• Why build the Lightning Network?
• What is the Lightning Network?

Meme of the day

• The price of adoption