Announcements

Please join us for our eighth 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

• CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 “All your mempool are belong to us”
  • mononaut visual explainer
• BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
• Announcing My PhD Thesis: “Evolving Bitcoin Custody”

lightning-dev

• SimLN: Simulate active test networks
• Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 “All your mempool are belong to us”
  • some rumination
• On solving pinning, replacement cycling and mempool issues for bitcoin second-layers

Meetings

Bitcoin PR Review Club

• Type-safe transaction identifiers
• Fee Estimator updates from Validation Interface/CScheduler thread

Lightning Specification Meetings

• Lightning Specification Meeting 2023/10/23

Optech

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #273
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #274
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #275

Network Data

• The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years

Research

• Game-Theoretic Analysis of (Non-)Refundable Fees in the Lightning Network
• On the (Not So) Surprising Impact of Multi-Path Payments on Performance and Privacy in the Lightning Network
• Payment Splitting in Lightning Network as a Mitigation Against Balance Discovery Attacks
• Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging

InfoSec

• WHY BLOCKCHAIN SURVEILLANCE NEEDS FINCEN’S PATRIOT ACT PLOY
• They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
  • related nytimes article
• Security researcher stopped at US border for investigating crypto scam
• Wallet Fingerprints: Detection & Analysis

Events and Podcasts

• SLP520 WHAT IS BITVM? WITH ROBIN LINUS AND SUPER TESTNET
• BTC153: BITCOIN’S TAPROOT ASSET PROTOCOL W/ RYAN GENTRY
• 455: AI-Powered Tyranny with Whitney Webb
• Are Central Banks Losing Control? With Lyn Alden & Natalie Smolenski

Miscellaneous

• Entering the Bitcoin Renaissance: Making Bitcoin and Lightning Multi-Asset Networks
• A letter from Nick: Why we’re keeping an eye on Binance.US
• Bitcoin Knowledge and Perceptions: Chapter II
• Opensats:Long-Term Support For Matt Morehouse
• Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto

Beginner Learning Resourcess

• BitcoinDev.org

Meme of the day

• Printing money to “fight” inflation