Announcements

Please join us for our fifth 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 for a new mempool design
• Bitcoin Transaction Relay over Nostr
• Ark: An Alternative Privacy-preserving Second Layer Solution
• BIP for Silent Payments
• Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released

lightning-dev

• blip-0026: L402 - Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol
• Proposal: Bundled payments

Meetings

Bitcoin Core general developer meetings

• June 8
• June 15
• June 22

Lightning Specification Meetings

• June 5
• June 19

Optech

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #255
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #256
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #257

Network Data

• Bitcoin Ordinals Analysis
• River Lightning node routes over 2M transactions
• Wallet of Satoshi did 689k Lightning payments in June

Research

• Increasing Energy Efficiency of Bitcoin Infrastructure with Reinforcement Learning and One-shot Path Planning for the Lightning Network
• Real World Crypto 2023 Recap
• Greedy-Mine: a Profitable Mining Attack Strategy in Bitcoin-NG
• The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces
• Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Routing Cryptocurrency over Payment Channel Networks
• An Invitation Model Protocol (IMP) for the Bitcoin Asymmetric Lightning Network
• Spear: Fast Multi-Path Payment with Redundancy

InfoSec

• Ledger “Recover”, White Paper, Recover FAQs
• A Cryptographic Near Miss - Elliptic Vulnerability in Go
• Ledger vulnerability disclosure, more

New Releases

• RTL v0.14.0
• LND v0.16.4-beta
• Aperture v0.2-beta

Events and Podcasts

• Ledger Recover with Pascal Gauthier, NVK, Matt Odell & Harry Sudock
• WBD Live in Miami - The Money Printing Debate with Jeff Snider and Lyn Alden
• SPELLCASTER - The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
• BlackRock’s Larry Fink Gives a Laser-Eyed Bitcoin Interview

Mining

• Brooklyn bathhouse heats water with Bitcoin mining
• The Kingdom Of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin For Years
• 70 Landfills Mining Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• Lightning Payments – When Are They Too Small To Secure?
• Securing a $100M Lightning node
• LNURL – ENHANCING LIGHTNING’S USER EXPERIENCE
• Fruit of the LOOP: the Game Theory Behind Running a Lightning Node
• He Stole $3.4 BILLION - But Made One Mistake
• The Rise of Lightning Service Providers
• Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry

  Ordinals

• OKX being looted of uncommon ordinal sats

  Nostr

• munstr - MuSig wallet with Nostr comms for signing orchestration
• Nostr based package relay

  AI

• Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training
• GPT4All
• gpt-prompt-engineer
• AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning

Beginner Learning Resources

• Why build the Lightning Network?
• What Is the Lightning Network?
• Hash Timelock Contract
• Unjamming Lightning
• Offers: Lightning’s Native Experience, Everywhere

Memes of the day

• The bots pay you in 2023
• CBDC-Centralbanks-Bitcoin-Banks