<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2025-03-27T13:32:22+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">BitDevs Athens</title><subtitle>BitDevs is a community for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #13</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2025-03-27-bitdevs-13" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #13" /><published>2025-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-03-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-13</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2025-03-27-bitdevs-13"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank SuiHub for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="thursday-march-27-2025-7pm--suihub">Thursday, March 27, 2025 7PM @ SuiHub</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting -without- attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<p>–How should I prepare?–   Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<ol>
  <li>Review of technical Bitcoin news</li>
  <li>ARK Protocol</li>
  <li>Bitcoin Blockchain indexing and wallet address handling</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="ark-protocol">ARK Protocol</h2>
<p>Reading material:</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://docs.second.tech/protocol/intro/">One-page introduction</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/concepts">One-page introduction plus deeper developer documentation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VSNArCC9yw">75-minute podcast with Stephan Livera</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="bitcoin-blockchain-indexing-and-wallet-address-handling">Bitcoin Blockchain indexing and wallet address handling</h2>
<p>Types of indexing required for different use cases.
Reading material:</p>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/transaction/utxo">Primers on UTXOs and P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2WSH &amp; P2TR transaction templates</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/107619/why-does-bitcoin-core-support-a-transaction-index-but-not-an-address-index">4-minute read</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/89008/how-do-i-extract-the-address-from-a-scriptpubkey">3-minute read</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="in-the-news">In the News</h2>

<h3 id="chain-weather-report">Chain weather report</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://dashboard.clarkmoody.com/">Clark Moody Dashboard</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://mempool.space/graphs/mempool#1m">Mempool.space</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="security--cves">Security / CVEs</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/mevpool/mevpool/blob/main/mevpool-marketplace.md">MEVpool: A Private Mempool Marketplace Standard</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-excessive-failback-exploit/">LND: Excessive Failback Exploit</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://epochvc.io/pdf/Epoch-Bitcoin-Ecosystem-Report-2024.pdf">The Bitcoin Ecosystem Report 2025</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://river.com/learn/files/river-bitcoin-adoption-report-2025.pdf">River Research Report 2025</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opnext.dev/">OP_NEXT conference April 11-12 by Microstrategy</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/01/tropic-square-tropic01-is-an-auditable-open-architecture-tamper-proof-risc-v-secure-element-se-for-iot-and-microcontrollers/">TROPIC01 secure element samples available</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666954425000092">Rethinking bitcoin’s energy use through sustainable digital business models and resources monetization: A multiple case study analysis</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://storopoli.com/blog/bitvm/">BitVM: How to bridge using 1-of-N trust assumptions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitvmx.org/files/esspi-ecdsa-input-bitvmx.pdf">ESSPI: ECDSA/Schnorr Signed Program Input for BitVMX</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.938867.de/dwr-25-09-1.pdf">DIW: Bitcoin is not the new gold</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1866802X251316902">Bitcoin as Tool for Financial Inclusion in El Salvador: The Perils of Authoritarian Governance</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/180">On the Atomicity and Efficiency of Blockchain Payment Channels</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/174">VITARIT: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://blog.second.tech/try-ark-on-signet/">Bark launches on signet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://tropicsquare.com/tropic01">TROPIC01 Source-available secure element announced</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-release-russian-alexander-vinnik-part-exchange-that-freed-fogel-new-york-2025-02-12/">US to release Russian Alexander Vinnik as part of exchange that freed Fogel</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/kanzure/status/1886849902245736693">Instant Bitcoin dev environment in browser by kanzure</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserveand-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/">Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/JeremyRubin/status/1895676912401252588">Jeremy Rubin endorses OP_CTV and CSFS</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinplusplus.devpost.com/project-gallery?page=1">BTC++ Floripa Hackathon Projects</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/custodial-solutions-are-not-solutions">Custodial solutions are not solutions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_87dfb370e81a4766811bf16e5293c6da.pdf">Prosecuting Privacy Report</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://utxo.live/oracle/">UTXOracle</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.summerofbitcoin.org/">Summer of Bitcoin 2025</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/jamesob/cbip32">cbip32</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.lopp.net/treatise-bitcoin-block-space-economics/">A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.opdup.com/2025/02/04/rebooting-p2pool-for-bitcoin.html">Rebooting P2Pool For Bitcoin</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="network-data">Network Data</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/stats-on-orphanage-overflows/1421">Stats on orphanage overflows</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-node-p2p-traffic-analysis/1490">Bitcoin node P2P traffic analysis</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing Lists</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-dev">bitcoin-dev</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/oQKezDOc4us">P2QRH / BIP-360 Update</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/Tu7mr419jWQ">“Recursive covenant” with CTV and CSFS</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin">Delving Bitcoin</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/antoine-poinsot-on-bitcoin-cores-priorities/1470">Antoine Poinsot on Bitcoin Core’s Priorities</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-forking-guide/1451">Bitcoin Forking Guide</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lnds-deadline-aware-budget-sweeper/1512">Discussion of LND’s dynamic feerate adjustment system</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="pull-requests">Pull requests</h3>

<h4 id="bips-bolts-and-proposals">BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1712">BIP3: Updated BIP Process #1712</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1233">Update a node’s behavior to never fail an HTLC upstream if the node knows the preimage</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core">Bitcoin Core</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-29.0">Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/31649">Remove all checkpoint logic #31649</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/31283">Introduce a new waitNext() #31283</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30529">Fix -norpcwhitelist, -norpcallowip, and similar corner case behavior #30529</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27432">contrib: add tool to convert compact-serialized UTXO set to SQLite database #27432</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lnd">LND</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/9546">Adds an ip_range flag to the lncli constrainmacaroon</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/9458">Introduce restricted access slots for certain peers</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9491">Allow coop closing a channel with HTLCs on it via lncli #9491</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="core-lightning">Core Lightning</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8094">xpay slow mode #8094</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/7985">renepay: Support for BOLT12 #7985</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="eclair">Eclair</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/issues/3037">Enhance the listoffers command</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3019">Prioritize remote commitment instead of local one #3019</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3016">Add scripts for taproot channels #3016</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="btcpay">BTCPay</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/issues/6581">Add RBF support</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="bdk--ldk">BDK &amp; LDK</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/issues/1839">Add support for detecting and handling canceled (double-spent) transactions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4111">Add support for pay to anchor outputs #4111</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3440">Support receiving async payments #3440</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="others">Others</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/payjoin/rust-payjoin/pull/434/">Payjoin: Multiparty Senders: NS1R</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #10</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-05-28-bitdevs-10" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #10" /><published>2024-05-28T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-05-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-10</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-05-28-bitdevs-10"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank <a href="https://www.stonesoup.io/">Stone Soup</a> for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="tuesday-may-28-2024--7pm">Tuesday, May 28, 2024 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting -without- attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<p>–How should I prepare?– Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<ol>
  <li>Review of technical Bitcoin news</li>
  <li>Taproot &amp; Tapscript</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="taproot--tapscript">Taproot &amp; Tapscript</h2>

<p>We will talk about:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Address formats and descriptors</li>
  <li>Tagged hashing and key tweaking</li>
  <li>Equations derivation</li>
  <li>Spending options</li>
  <li>Witness stack and serialization</li>
  <li>Tapscript and the opcodes</li>
</ul>

<p>Reading material:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki">BIP 341</a> &amp; <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki">BIP 342</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.bitmex.com/taproot-demonstration/">Taproot demonstration</a> by BitMex</li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/110995/how-can-i-find-samples-for-p2tr-transactions-on-mainnet">Bitcoin Stack Exchange examples of P2TR transactions on Mainnet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blockchain-academy.hs-mittweida.de/courses/bitcoin-taproot/lessons/spending-coins-with-taproot/">Spending coins with Taproot and some more examples</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/05/14/#overview-of-the-taproot--tapscript-proposed-bips">Overview of the Taproot &amp; Tapscript proposed BIPs</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="in-the-news">In the News</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf">Craig Wright is not Satoshi</a></li>
  <li>Tornado Cash
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1790367445720445421">Ruling breakdown</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/developing-financial-privacy-tools-was-today-criminalized-by-the-dutch-court-">“Developing Financial Privacy Tools Was Today Criminalized By the Dutch Court”</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tornado-cash-not-free-speech-its-golem">“Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem”</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://www.coincenter.org/tornado-cash-is-no-golem-its-a-tool-for-privacy-and-free-speech/">“Tornado Cash is no “golem.” It’s a tool for privacy and free speech”</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering">Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested &amp; Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://p2prights.org/">Defense fund - p2prights.org</a> by <a href="https://www.btcpolicy.org/">Bitcoin Policy Institute</a> (<a href="https://x.com/DavidZell_/status/1792586147182285292">src</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1786083838415769673">Wasabi shuts down coordinator</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1783878735168507972">Phoenix withdraws from US app store</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/IBEXpay/status/1790814896239620577">IBEX Pay Suspends Services in the United States</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/287939/fbi-luke-dashjr-btc-hack">FBI probed bitcoin core developer event linked to Luke Dashjr’s BTC hack</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="bitcoin">Bitcoin</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.hnlbtc.group/bit-devs/resources/notes/the-great-script-restoration-a-path-forward-for-bitcoin/">The Great Script Restoration - A Path Forward For Bitcoin</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-great-script-restoration-a-path-forward-for-bitcoin">Bitcoin Magazine article</a> by Shinobi</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.hnlbtc.group/bit-devs/resources/notes/emessbee-construct-coinjoin-transactions-without-a-coordinator/">Emessbee - Construct Coinjoin Transactions Without a Coordinator</a>
    <ul>
      <li>related: https://joinstr.xyz/</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="bitcoin-core-dev-tech-recap">Bitcoin Core Dev Tech Recap</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://btctranscripts.com/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2024-04/">Topics and transcripts</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://cisaresearch.org">cisaresearch.org</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/second-look-at-weak-blocks/805">Weak blocks</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710">Great Consensus Cleanup</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/research-into-the-effects-of-a-cluster-size-limited-mempool-in-2023/794">Impacts of cluster mempool on 2023 data</a></li>
      <li>Silent payments descriptors, Kernel updates, GUI discussions, and more</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="bips">BIPs</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/five-new-editors-added-to-bitcoin-improvement-proposals/">New BIP editors</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki">BIP-352 - Silent Payments</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://silentpayments.xyz/">silentpayments.xyz - a less technical explainer</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/cakewallet/status/1791500775262437396">Cake Wallet adds silent payments in public beta</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://www.hnlbtc.group/bit-devs/resources/notes/silentium-progressive-web-app-with-silent-payments/">Silentium - Progressive Web App with Silent Payments</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1389">BIP-388: Wallet Policies for Descriptor Wallets</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1525">BIP 347: OP_CAT in Tapscript</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="lightning">Lightning</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/bolt12-has-arrived/">LDK: BOLT12 Has Arrived</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.hnlbtc.group/bit-devs/resources/notes/taproot-assets-on-mainnet/">Taproot Assets on LN</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4810964">An integrated landfill-gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining model</a> (<a href="https://x.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1787905519140880583">src</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142061524001364">Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids</a> (<a href="https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1791123520467968228">src</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@btcplusplus/streams">bitcoin++ ATX script edition</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/SandshrewRPC/status/1780276851304218808">Sandshrew, the Bitcoin RPC for builders</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.coinex.com/en/halving-block-auction">The first satoshi of Bitcoin’s fourth halving block auctioned off for 33.3BTC</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-tax-fraud">Roger Ver Charged with $50M Tax Fraud by DOJ</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/cz-sentenced-to-4-months-in-prison/">Binance’s Founder CZ Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/verysmallclaims/status/1787950799202468147">An impromptu interview with a social engineering hacker</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.gob.sv/">National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="articles">Articles</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/">Stop Calling It MEV</a> by Matt Corallo</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2024/04/20/team-slow-and-steady">Team slow and steady</a> by AJ Towns</li>
  <li><a href="https://hackmd.io/@polyhedra/bitcoin">How to verify ZK proofs on Bitcoin?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/orange-pilling-has-stopped-working">Orange Pilling Has Stopped Working</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.polarbear.gr/?p=583">Bitcoin first steps: A short article for self-custody</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="funding-grants">Funding, Grants</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/opensats-receives-additional-funding-of-dollar21m-from-startsmall">Opensats: Aditional donation of $21M from #startsmall, Jack Dorsey’s philanthropic initiative</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/05/btpi-will-research-relationship-between-bitcoin-and-financial-freedom">Cornell’s BTPI announced a $1M project to research the relationship between Bitcoin and financial freedom</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #8.5</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-04-12-bitdevs-8-5-halving" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #8.5" /><published>2024-04-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-04-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-8-5-halving</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-04-12-bitdevs-8-5-halving"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next special Socratic Seminar at Santorini Halving Party!</p>

<h3 id="friday-april-12-2024--4pm">Friday, April 12, 2024 @ 4PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<h3 id="securitycvesinfosecresearch">Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://brd.chaincode.com/prize">Bitcoin research price by Chaincode Labs</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-7nQU7JTQ">2023 prize winner</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4727999">Breaking BFT: Quantifying the Cost to Attack Bitcoin and Ethereum</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/">9 BTC stolen with fake Exodus wallet in Ubuntu appstore</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4">backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise</a> (<a href="https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393">in-depth</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/">Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/KimZetter/status/1770869722760061195">tweet thread</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://gofetch.fail/">GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers </a></li>
      <li><a href="https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/apple-chips/">Related article</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/112238385679496096">GoFetch is entirely patchable</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/provoost/status/1771281438928773224">EU anti-privacy nonsense</a> by Sjors
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1771929859704389954">twitter thread by Director, EU Strategy &amp; Policy @circle</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="bitcoin">Bitcoin</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1421">OP_VAULT BIP merged</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/basic-vault-prototype-using-op-cat/576">Basic vault prototype using OP_CAT</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/gitlab-backups-for-bitcoin-core-repository/624">GitLab Backups for Bitcoin Core repository</a>- <a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/asmap-creation-process/548/1">ASMap creation process</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/cuMZ77KEQAA">Adding New BIP Editors</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28037">rpc: Drop migratewallet experimental warning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/jnK3CJAcbUE?pli=1">Bitcoin Core 27.0 release candidate 1 available</a> (<a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/v27-rc-testing">review-club</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="lightning">Lightning</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-swaproot">Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/payjoin-in-potentiam-externally-fund-an-lsp-channel-open-with-one-transaction/749">Payjoin-in-Potentiam: Externally fund an LSP channel open with one transaction</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://phoenix.acinq.co/server">Phoenix for server</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1771236080680841668">announcement</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://ocean.xyz/docs/tides">T.I.D.E.S. - A Fair Bitcoin Mining Pool Reward System</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/120719/how-does-ocean-s-tides-payout-scheme-work">Bitcoin Stack Exchange Explainer</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://stratumprotocol.org/blog/sri-1-0-0/">Introducing SRI 1.0.0</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/BraiinsMining/status/1760319741560856983">Braiins introducing Lightning payouts</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/">Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC’s 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/observations/10-viabtc-blocks-without-witness-data/">ViaBTC’s mutated blocks without witness data</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/opencryptoorg/status/1768286022083727392">COPA court win against CSW</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://laanwj.github.io/2024/03/19/finally.html">Wladimir van der Laan’s reaction</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/1440000bytes/status/1778073872086249508">FBI subpoen for CoreDev attendees</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://adamjonas.com/bitcoin/coredev/retro/coredev-2023-retro/">CoreDev Retro Survey 2023</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.getalby.com/scaling-bitcoin-apps/">Scaling Bitcoin Apps with NWC</a> (<a href="https://github.com/getAlby/nips/blob/master/47.md">NIP-47</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/in3rsha/status/1765727225918128208">New version of http://learnmeabitcoin.com is now online</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twenty-two.xyz/">Introducing Portal: the hardware wallet for mobile users</a> (<a href="https://github.com/TwentyTwoHW/portal-software">source code</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://bitkey.build/sharing-the-code-behind-bitkey/">Sharing the Code Behind Bitkey</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitvm.org/bitvm2">BitVM2</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/robin_linus/status/1772320688897941895">tweet</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1767631403615764764">Some statistics on the current UTXO set</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://mercurylayer.com/">Mercury Layer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ir.mara.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1344/marathon-digital-holdings-introduces-anduro-a-new">Marathon Digital Holdings Introduces Anduro, a New Multi-Chain Bitcoin Layer-Two Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://l2.watch/">L2 Watch</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/">Bitcoin Layers</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="funding-grants">Funding, Grants</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/pablofz7-receives-lts-grant">OpenSats: Long-Term Support For PabloF7z</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/bruno-garcia-receives-lts-grant">OpenSats: Long-Term Support For Bruno Garcia</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-feb-2024">OpenSats: Fourth Wave of Bitcoin Grants</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-lts-long-term-support-for-nostr-developers">OpenSats: Long-term Support for Nostr Developers</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/spiralbtc/status/1755274169317491037">Spiral grant for StratumV2 dev</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next special Socratic Seminar at Santorini Halving Party!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #8</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-03-26-bitdevs-8" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #8" /><published>2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-8</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-03-26-bitdevs-8"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank <a href="https://www.programize.com/">Programize</a> for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="tuesday-march-26-2024--7pm">Tuesday, March 26, 2024 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<ol>
  <li>Review of technical Bitcoin news</li>
  <li>Validity Proofs a.k.a. Zero-knowledge proofs</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="validity-proofs-aka-zero-knowledge-proofs">Validity Proofs a.k.a. Zero-knowledge proofs</h2>

<p>Reading material:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.circularise.com/blogs/zero-knowledge-proofs-explained-in-3-examples">Generic Zero Knowledge Proofs explanation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://medium.com/starkware/validity-proofs-vs-fraud-proofs-4ef8b4d3d87a">Validity proofs (using Fraud proofs as comparison)</a> by StarkWare</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.alchemy.com/overviews/validity-proof-vs-fraud-proof">ZK proofs vs Fraud proofs</a> by Alchemy</li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTAj9QFGrog">Intro to Polynomial Commitments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://wiki.zechub.xyz/zcash-technology/zkp-zk-snarks">A written intro to ZKP and ZK-SNARKS</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNSjhkB_Szc">Podcast with prominent ZK-proofs actors</a> (1h30m)</li>
</ul>

<p>USECASES / applications</p>

<p>zk-sync:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021679.html">Robin Linus zk-sync announcement</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/05/24/">seen in Bitcoin OpTech</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://zerosync.org/zerosync.pdf">zk-sync whitepaper</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Rollups:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinrollups.org/#section-1-an-introduction-to-validity-rollups">John Light’s HRF report</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://tuta-space.notion.site/Validity-rollups-on-Bitcoin-dfdf93725f1849a899b3092bbcff0808">Summary version of HRF report</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="news">News</h2>

<h3 id="cves-and-research">CVEs and Research</h3>

<h4 id="research">Research</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://brd.chaincode.com/prize">Bitcoin research price by Chaincode Labs</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-7nQU7JTQ">2023 prize winner</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4727999">Breaking BFT: Quantifying the Cost to Attack Bitcoin and Ethereum</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.airitilibrary.com/Article/Detail/10162364-N202311220012-00011">A Bitcoin Transaction Analyzing and Tracking Mechanism in Specified Network Zone</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://repositum.tuwien.at/handle/20.500.12708/193929?mode=full">Topology Discovery within the Bitcoin Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/408">Modular Indexer: Fully User-Verified Execution Layer for Meta-Protocols on Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/280">HARTS: High-Threshold, Adaptively Secure, and Robust Threshold Schnorr Signatures</a></li>
  <li><a href="">High-Bandwidth Node Selection in Compact Block Relay</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="infosec">InfoSec</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/">9 BTC stolen with fake Exodus wallet in Ubuntu appstore</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/provoost/status/1771281438928773224">EU anti-privacy nonsense</a> by Sjors
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1771929859704389954">twitter thread by Director, EU Strategy &amp; Policy @circle</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing-lists</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-dev"><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/">bitcoin-dev</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/cuMZ77KEQAA">Adding New BIP Editors</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/jnK3CJAcbUE?pli=1">Bitcoin Core 27.0 release candidate 1 available</a> (<a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/v27-rc-testing">review-club</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/state-minimization-in-musig2-signing-sessions/626">State minimization in MuSig2 signing sessions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/basic-vault-prototype-using-op-cat/576">Basic vault prototype using OP_CAT</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-onchain-implementation-of-mining-feerate-futures/547">An Onchain Implementation Of Mining Feerate Futures</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/gitlab-backups-for-bitcoin-core-repository/624">GitLab Backups for Bitcoin Core repository</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/revisiting-bip21/630">Revisiting BIP21</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/asmap-creation-process/548/1">ASMap creation process</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="pull-requests-and-repo-updates">Pull Requests and repo updates</h3>

<h4 id="bips-bolts-and-proposals">BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1421">OP_VAULT BIP merged</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core">Bitcoin Core</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27877">wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28037">rpc: Drop migratewallet experimental warning</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://ocean.xyz/docs/tides">T.I.D.E.S. - A Fair Bitcoin Mining Pool Reward System</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/120719/how-does-ocean-s-tides-payout-scheme-work">Bitcoin Stack Exchange Explainer</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://stratumprotocol.org/blog/sri-1-0-0/">Introducing SRI 1.0.0</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/BraiinsMining/status/1760319741560856983">Braiins introducing Lightning payouts</a>
    <h3 id="lightning">Lightning</h3>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-swaproot">Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://phoenix.acinq.co/server">Phoenix for server</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1771236080680841668">announcement</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/opencryptoorg/status/1768286022083727392">COPA court win against CSW</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://laanwj.github.io/2024/03/19/finally.html">Wladimir van der Laan’s reaction</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://adamjonas.com/bitcoin/coredev/retro/coredev-2023-retro/">CoreDev Retro Survey 2023</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.getalby.com/scaling-bitcoin-apps/">Scaling Bitcoin Apps with NWC</a> (<a href="https://github.com/getAlby/nips/blob/master/47.md">NIP-47</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/in3rsha/status/1765727225918128208">New version of http://learnmeabitcoin.com is now online</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twenty-two.xyz/">Introducing Portal: the hardware wallet for mobile users</a> (<a href="https://github.com/TwentyTwoHW/portal-software">source code</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://bitkey.build/sharing-the-code-behind-bitkey/">Sharing the Code Behind Bitkey</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/secp256k1-zkp/pull/261">Schnorr (Incremental) Half Aggregation #261</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitvm.org/bitvm2">BitVM2</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/robin_linus/status/1772320688897941895">tweet</a>)</li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1767631403615764764">Some statistics on the current UTXO set</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://mercurylayer.com/">Mercury Layer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ir.mara.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1344/marathon-digital-holdings-introduces-anduro-a-new">Marathon Digital Holdings Introduces Anduro, a New Multi-Chain Bitcoin Layer-Two Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://l2.watch/">L2 Watch</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="funding-grants">Funding, Grants</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-feb-2024">OpenSats: Fourth Wave of Bitcoin Grants</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-lts-long-term-support-for-nostr-developers">OpenSats: Long-term Support for Nostr Developers</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/spiralbtc/status/1755274169317491037">Spiral grant for StratumV2 dev</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="articles">Articles</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/">Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC’s 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #7</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-02-20-bitdevs-7" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #7" /><published>2024-02-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-02-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-7</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2024-02-20-bitdevs-7"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank <a href="https://www.programize.com/">Programize</a> for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="tuesday-february-20-2024--7pm">Tuesday, February 20, 2024 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<ol>
  <li>Review of technical Bitcoin news</li>
  <li>Homomorphic encryption</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="homomorphic-encryption">Homomorphic encryption</h2>

<p>Homomorphic encryption is a useful cryptographic building block; one use case is to query a database without telling the server (such as a blockchain explorer) what you searched for.</p>

<p>Reading material:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://blintzbase.com/posts/pir-and-fhe-from-scratch/">Private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption, explained from scratch</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://medium.com/@mustafa.hourani/explaining-the-recent-rise-of-fully-homomorphic-encryption-in-the-blockchain-industry-c7081fa05458">Explaining the Recent Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption in the Blockchain Industry</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/posts/fhe-01/">Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Introduction and Use-Cases</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/private_join_and_compute.pdf">A short illustration of homomorphic encryption by Google</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPMLY6UzvsI">3min video</a>)</li>
  <li>If you want to go deep: https://fhe.org/resources/</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="news">News</h2>
<p>💬 <em>Indicates item to be explored further during the meetup</em></p>

<h3 id="cves-and-research">CVEs and Research</h3>

<h4 id="research">Research</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17581.pdf">Bitcoin Inscriptions: Foundations and Beyond (Tech Report)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/025">Bitcoin Clique: Channel-free Off-chain Payments using Two-Shot Adaptor Signatures</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/020">EROR: Efficient Repliable Onion Routing with Strong Provable Privacy</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/024">FlexHi: A Flexible Hierarchical Threshold</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11868v1">Self-Balancing Semi-Hierarchical PCNs for CBDCs</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="infosec">InfoSec</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="hthttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/heres-some-bitcoin-oh-and-youve-been-served/">Serving legal notice as OP_RETURN</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-seize-bitcoins-worth-2-billion/a-68121384">Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2 billion</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://taler.net/en/news/2024-02.html">New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing-lists</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-dev"><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/">bitcoin-dev</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2024-February/022327.html">bitcoin-dev Mailing List Migration to Google groups</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2024-January/022289.html">BIP process friction - BINANA (Bitcoin Inquisition Numbers And Names Authority)</a> (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/binana">repo</a>)</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-btcd-consensus-bugs-due-to-usage-of-signed-transaction-version/455">Disclosure: btcd consensus bug due to signed transaction versions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/ln-symmetry-project-recap/359">LN-Symmetry Project Recap</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lightning-transactions-with-v3-and-ephemeral-anchors/418">Lightning transactions with v3 and ephemeral anchors</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/ephemeral-anchors-and-mevil/383/1">Ephemeral Anchors and MEVil</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/ecash-and-lightning-via-zkcp/586">Ecash and lightning via ZKCP</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/on-consensus-changes-in-bitcoin-2024/334">On consensus changes in bitcoin 2024</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="pull-requests-and-repo-updates">Pull Requests and repo updates</h3>

<h4 id="bips-bolts-and-proposals">BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1551">Add a BIP which resolves human readable names into payment info</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core">Bitcoin Core</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28948">v3 transaction policy for anti-pinning #28948</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29347">net: enable v2transport by default #29347</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29189">RFC: Deprecate libconsensus</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://hashrateindex.com/blog/hashrate-index-2023-bitcoin-mining-year-in-review/">Hashrate Index 2023 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364">Tracking electricity consumption from U.S. cryptocurrency mining operations</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.quantumcats.xyz/bip-land">Quantum Cats BIP Land</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bipbounty-org-is-open-for-your-bips/441">BIPBounty accepts new BIPs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/fewsats/status/1754918017623064932">Fewsats alpha stage launch</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/rot13maxi/status/1745983083608789345">Quantum Cats Evolving Inscriptions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/robin_linus/status/1740012153816715507">BitVM Transaction Graph</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.blog.citrea.xyz/introducing-citrea/">Chainways/Citrea: First Bitcoin ZK Rollup</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1754908226645025064">Small Explainer</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/chainwayxyz/toy-bitvm-rs">BitVM Toy Implementation</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/super_testnet/status/1755266784070975744">SuperTestnet says they are a scam</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BdGYrXvlNoJX">L2L Spaces - Super Testnet: Citrea “not a scam”</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://vulpem.medium.com/banco-non-interactive-swaps-00d042791e06">Banco: Non-Interactive Swaps</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://npub.cash/">A Lightning-Address powered by eCash and nostr</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="funding-grants">Funding, Grants</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://egodeath.capital/blog/gjqg3b90h389ufb4y0wnzflv0wfcho">egodeath.capital raises 100M$</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/spiralbtc/status/1747663472836431925">Spiral grant for Payjoin devs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/spiralbtc/status/1745117076853866551">Spiral grant for Fedimint dev</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Vinteum_org/status/1737880749276098683">Vinteum renews grants for Bruno Garcia and Davidson Lucas De Souza</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bitcoinbrink/status/1738248645940556257">Brink Receives $150,000 from Tim Draper</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bitcoinbrink/status/1758544229721120870">Brink Receives $3.6m from GiveCrypto</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-grants-500000-to-18-bitcoin-projects-worldwide">Human Rights Foundation Grants $500,000 To 18 Bitcoin Projects</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/rene-pickhardt-receives-lts-grant">OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support For René Pickhardt</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/0xB10C-receives-lts-grant">OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support For 0xB10C</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opensats.org/blog/recurring-donations-from-bitwise-bitcoin-etf-bitb">OpenSats to Receive Recurring Donations from Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Profits</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/vaneck_us/status/1743300722928619779">VanEck pledges 5% of its profits to support Bitcoin Core development through Brink</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="articles">Articles</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://medium.com/@elombrozo/latest-thoughts-on-bitcoin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-598d5346d0d7">Latest thoughts on Bitcoin: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stacker.news/items/379225">Rethinking Lightning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2024/01/08/txhash-tx-stacking.html">Transaction Stacking for Covenant Fee Minimization</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightco.in/2024/02/13/bitstake/">Introducing Bitstake: A proof of stake bridge based on BitVM</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/observations/09-non-standard-transactions/">An overview of recent non-standard Bitcoin transactions</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #6</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-12-14-bitdevs-6" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #6" /><published>2023-12-14T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-12-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-6</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-12-14-bitdevs-6"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank <a href="https://www.programize.com/">Programize</a> for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="thursday-december-14th-2023--7pm">Thursday, December 14th 2023 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely
within the event.</p>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>
<ol>
  <li>Review of technical Bitcoin news</li>
  <li>Blind cryptographic signatures and Chaumian ecash</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="blind-cryptographic-signatures-and-chaumian-ecash">Blind cryptographic signatures and Chaumian ecash</h2>

<p><a href="https://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Chaum.BlindSigForPayment.1982.PDF">Blind signatures were proposed in 1983 by David Chaum</a> and implemented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash">Digicash in the 1990s</a> and are now coming back as building blocks in Bitcoin Layer 2s such as <a href="https://fedimint.org/">Fedimint</a> and <a href="https://cashu.space/">Cashu</a>.</p>

<p>Reading material:</p>
<ul>
  <li>The short <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature">Wikipedia article</a> on blind signatures</li>
  <li>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcB9nH78Ths">series of very short videos</a> explaining blind signatures</li>
  <li>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwMzNE1D3so">2-hour video</a> starting from blind signatures, building Chaumian ecash mints and using them in Bitcoin. (use the Table of Contents to skip to the sections of interest).
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/28c3475734becf031c9924f0b50d1bed">text notes of this video</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h2 id="news-wip">News [WIP]</h2>
<p>💬 <em>Indicates item to be explored further during the meetup</em></p>

<h3 id="cves-and-research">CVEs and Research</h3>

<h4 id="research">Research</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://robinlinus.com/bitstream.pdf">BitStream: Decentralized File Hosting Incentivised via Bitcoin Payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12491v1">Heuristics for Detecting CoinJoin Transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="infosec">InfoSec</h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wave-of-armed-robberies-sweden/">Armed Bitcoin Robberies Surge In Sweden Due to Open Data on Citizens</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bax1337/status/1724534339206033532">BitcoinJS flag leaves $1B in cryptocurrency exposed</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing-lists</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-dev"><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/">bitcoin-dev</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022134.html">Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h4>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/c/implementation/wg-cluster-mempool/9">wg-cluster-mempool</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cluster-mempool/">Bitcoin Optech Topics: Cluster mempool</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="pull-requests-and-repo-updates">Pull Requests and repo updates</h3>

<p>…</p>

<h3 id="new-releases">New Releases</h3>

<ul>
  <li>💬 <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-26.0.md">Bitcoin Core 26.0</a> (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/26.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide">testing guide</a>)
    <ul>
      <li>selection of notable changes:
        <ul>
          <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki">V2 Transport - BIP 324</a> (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28196">PR#28196</a>)</li>
          <li>TapMiniscript descriptors (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27255">PR#27255</a>)</li>
          <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/design/assumeutxo.md">assumeutxo</a> (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27596">PR#27596</a>)</li>
          <li>The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">createwallet</code> RPC will no longer create legacy (BDB) wallets (<a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28597">PR#28597</a>)</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stephan-livera/episodes/Bitcoin-Mining-Decentralisation-with-Ocean---Bitcoin-Mechanic-SLP528-e2ci8gg">SLP528 - Bitcoin Mining Decentralisation with Ocean - Bitcoin Mechanic</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/demand-launches-worlds-first-stratum-v2-bitcoin-mining-pool">New mining pool–DEMAND–will use Stratumv2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.mining.build/meet-the-mdk-hashboard/">Meet the MDK Hashboard</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/11/20/nigerian-bitcoin-miner-trojan-mining-launch-500kw-hydro-mining-site/">Nigerian Bitcoin Miner, Trojan Mining, Launch 500KW Hydro Mining Site</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>

<ul>
  <li>💬 <a href="https://brandonlucas.net/articles/bitcoin/payjoin">Payjoin for a Better Bitcoin Future</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.bitcoinrollups.io/">bitcoinrollups.io</a>: an educational resource covering Bitcoin rollups</li>
  <li>BitVM
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://medium.com/crypto-garage/deep-dive-into-bitvm-computing-paradigm-to-express-turing-complete-bitcoin-contracts-1c6cb05edfca">Deep dive into BitVM: Computing paradigm to express Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/twhit223/bitvm_primer">BitVM Primer</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/super_testnet/status/1726772975544807913">sha256 function for BitVM</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/stakwork/status/1722325849201053986">Stakwork 6.5MM bounty claimed by Steven Roose for BitVM script interpreter</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://opcodeexplained.com/">Opcodes Explained - encyclopedia of all current opcodes</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://nostr.com/note1cu575mfy2xdakh9aklhghhn8vmluwkh79anrh09vmexgw5m3tyrq2edm2z">Wallet of Satoshi stops service US customers</a></li>
  <li>💬 <a href="https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1719829869582749839">Why mempool.space block templates are not matching production blocks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitkey.world/en-US/how-it-works">Bitkey pre-orders</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://review.btctranscripts.com/">Bitcoin Transcripts Reviews</a>: review technical bitcoin transcripts and earn sats</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #5</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-11-09-bitdevs-5" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #5" /><published>2023-11-09T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-11-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-5</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-11-09-bitdevs-5"><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!</p>

<p>The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner &amp; drinks, all are welcome! 
We would like to thank <a href="https://www.programize.com/">Programize</a> for hosting us.</p>

<h3 id="thursday-november-9th-2023--7pm">Thursday, November 9th 2023 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>, you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely
within the event.</p>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda-wip">Agenda (WIP)</h1>
<ol>
  <li>News <em>(in brief!)</em></li>
  <li>RGB presentation</li>
  <li>Taproot Assets presentation</li>
</ol>

<h2 id="taproot-assets">Taproot assets</h2>

<p>Taproot Assets (formerly Taro) is a new Taproot-powered protocol developed by <a href="https://lightning.engineering/">Lightning Labs</a> for issuing assets on the bitcoin blockchain that can be transferred over the Lightning Network.</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets">https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/Roasbeef/bips/blob/bip-tap/bip-tap.mediawiki">Draft BIP</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-10-18-taproot-assets-v0.3/">Taproot Assets on Mainnet</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="rgb">RGB</h2>

<p><a href="https://rgb.tech/">RGB</a> is a system of private &amp; scalable <a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/client-side-validation/">client-validated</a> smart contracts on Bitcoin &amp; Lightning developed by <a href="https://github.com/LNP-BP">LNP/BP Association</a></p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://rgb.info/">https://rgb.info/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://diba.io/blog/understanding-rgb-protocol/">https://diba.io/blog/understanding-rgb-protocol/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/cryptoquick/status/1668331191190310912">simple explanation tweet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwVgvZG4pgI">First presentation of RGB</a> by Giacomo Zucco, Alekos Filini in 2018</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="news">News</h2>
<p>* <em>Indicates item briefly mentioned in the seminar</em></p>

<p>Notice: This seminar’s news section is long as it covers period 14Jun - 09Nov 2023.</p>
<h3 id="securitycvesinfosecresearch">Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2023/10/20/examining-scriptpubkey-in-script.html">Covenants: Examining ScriptPubkeys in Bitcoin Script</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2023/10/22/amounts-in-script.html">Covenants: Dealing with Amounts in Bitcoin Script</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003871">The Environmental Footprint of Bitcoin Mining Across the Globe: Call for Urgent Action</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.bitcoinrollups.io/">Bitcoin Rollups Research (new content)</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11911">PHD thesis: Evolving Bitcoin Custody</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04899">Mixing Solutions in Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems: A Review and Tutorial</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19150v2">The Centralizing Effects of Private Order Flow on Proposer-Builder Separation</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/4de67a207019fd4d855ef0a188b4519c/Durabit/main/Durabit%20-%20A%20Bitcoin-native%20Incentive%20Mechanism%20for%20Data%20Distribution.pdf">Durabit: A Bitcoin-native Incentive Mechanism for Data Distribution</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://petertodd.org/2023/drivechains">Drivechains: A Detailed Analysis</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Truthcoin/status/1712814820267802712?s=20">Rebutal</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1633">One-time and Revocable Ring Signature with Logarithmic Size in Blockchain</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1472">Naysayer proofs</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://zerosync.org/demo/">ZeroSync demo</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/">Runes</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://blog.lopp.net/an-introduction-to-spiderchain/">An Introduction to Spiderchain</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/security/advisories/GHSA-9gpc-prj9-89x7">Electrum CVE: sending with Lightning: payment_preimage validation is skipped on Android</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/security/advisories/GHSA-8r85-vp7r-hjxf">Electrum CVE: receiving with Lightning: partial MPP might be accepted</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/09/20/dont-overextend-your-oblivious-transfer/">Don’t overextend your Oblivious Transfer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://browse.arxiv.org/pdf/2309.06847.pdf">Undetectable Selfish Mining</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.mutinywallet.com/fixing-payment-reliability/">Our Data Driven Approach to Fixing Payment Reliability</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf">BitVM</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/supertestnet/tapleaf-circuits">Proof of concept implementation</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/supertestnet/tapleaf-circuits">tapleaf-circuits</a>,  <a href="https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1713291840638599206?s=46">example transaction</a>,  <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8We2vgWIAAimGt?format=jpg&amp;name=large">functional encryption improvement</a>,  <a href="https://nandgame.com/">build nand gate</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://river.com/learn/files/river-lightning-report-2023.pdf">River Lightning Report 2023</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://cybersecurity.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42400-023-00182-9">Evicting and filling attack for linking multiple network addresses of Bitcoin nodes</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.techrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Understanding_BRC-20_Hope_or_Hype/24233806">Understanding BRC-20: Hope or Hype?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/AndySchroder/StaticWire">StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://download.darosior.ninja/dump/nucleus_paper_from_ml.pdf">NUCLEUS: Capital-efficient multipeer Lightning payment channels</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/fake-channel-dos/">DoS: Fake Lightning Channels</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/0718-1876/18/3/68">A Review of the Lightning Network’s Evolution: Unraveling Its Present State and the Emergence of Disruptive Digital Business Models</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/510">revised: Bulletproofs++: Next Generation Confidential Transactions via Reciprocal Set Membership Arguments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-project/sim-ln">simln</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1781391&amp;dswid=1461">The Illumination of Money: An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:f45f85a0-b634-43d9-bd18-2bd9398d2c13">FROSTDAO: Collective Ownership of wealth using FROST</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/305862">CHAUSSETTE: A Symbolic Verification of Bitcoin Scripts</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2023/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/">Bitcoin electricity consumption: an improved assessment</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/LNOpenMetrics/lnmetrics.rfc">LN Metrics - Open Source LN data collection initiative</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118933/how-can-i-manually-on-paper-calculate-a-bitcoin-public-key-from-a-private-key/118939#118939">Manually (on paper) calculating a public key from a private key</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/blog/waiting-for-confirmation/">Waiting for confirmation: a series about mempool and relay policy</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://medium.com/@nbax/anatomy-of-a-bitcoin-heist-the-electrum-atom-malware-saga-1685abf7c903">Anatomy of a Bitcoin Heist: The Electrum Atom Malware Saga</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16006v1">Lightning Creation Games</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02342v1">Towards a Formal Verification of the Lightning Network with TLA+</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/en/">How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2023/07/09/covenant-taxonomy.html">Covenants in Bitcoin: A Useful Review Taxonomy</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.ledger.com/blog/towards-a-trustless-bitcoin-wallet-with-miniscript">Towards a trustless bitcoin wallet with miniscript</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Layer-2_Solutions_for_Bitcoin_Scalability/23788107">PHD thesis about new watchtower FPPW and new payment channel Daric</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13848">TeleBTC: Trustless Wrapped Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08616">Temporal and Geographical Analysis of Real Economic Activities in the Bitcoin Blockchain</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://milksad.info/">Entropy bug in Libbitcoin Explorer: Milk Sad</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407">Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://conduition.io/cryptography/schnorr/">A Dive Into the Math Behind Bitcoin Schnorr Signatures</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/damusapp/status/1673326463297392640">Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1019">The many faces of Schnorr</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.projectspartacus.org/">Project Spartacus</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.mining.build/meet-the-mdk-hashboard/">Meet the MDK Hashboard</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://film.simpleproof.com/">Opentimestamps used in elections in Guatemala</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.lightspark.com/uma">Lightspark Universal Money Address</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1720083660815376832">LinuxFoundation will stop hosting mailing lists</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://bitcoindev.org/">BitcoinDev.org</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://voltage.cloud/blog/bitcoin-development-platform/doppler-a-lightning-domain-specific-language/">Doppler - A lightning DSL</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-10-18-taproot-assets-v0.3/">Taproot Assets on Mainnet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/seeds-bounty/">ANNOUNCING THE $12K NIST ELLIPTIC CURVES SEEDS BOUNTY</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://gputopia.ai/">GPUtopia</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://warnet.dev/">warnet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lexe.app/">Lexe Wallet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zwm5iHFyBQ">OP_VAULT Demo Video</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://www.coinjoins.org/">Coinjoins.org</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin Forum</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/covenant-tools-softfork/98">Covenant Tools Softfork Discussion</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://simln.dev/">SimLN</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/119239/what-are-matt-opcodes/119268">What are MATT opcodes?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.liquid.net/expanding-transparency-the-liquid-networks-functionary-code-is-now-open-source/">Open-Sourcing Liquid’s Functionary Code</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/thoughts-on-scaling-and-consensus-changes-2023/32">Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes (2023)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://tether.to/en/tether-makes-strategic-transition-to-meet-community-demands-and-foster-innovation/">Tether stops support for Bitcoin / OmniLayer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/sanket1729/simp-lang">Simp-lang - Simplicity DSL POC</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.change.org/p/tell-congress-stop-the-use-of-chainalysis-services">Tell Congress: Stop The Use Of Chainalysis Services</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://nitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1701806701853507886">Coinbase to integrate Lightning</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://hrfbounties.org/">HRF Bitcoin Bounty Challenge</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/ca5051285c6f8d38693fd127575be44d#update">Chris Belcher health situation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/royllo_org/status/1680910896569229312">Royllo.org - Taproot Assets Explorer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://chat.bitcoinsearch.xyz/#chat">ChatBTC</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://frostsnap.com/introducing-frostsnap.html">Frostsnap</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://notgeld.medium.com/war-and-lightning-network-86f30cdc5c09">War and Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-open-beta/">Mutiny Wallet beta release</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/Kodylow/matador">Matador: A Bitcoin-Powered Passthrough Server</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.bitmex.com/drivechains/">Bitmex: Drivechains</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/2023-mid-year-mining/">Galaxy Mining: 2023 Bitcoin Mining Mid-Year Report</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2023/06/21/putting-the-b-in-btc">Putting the B in BTC</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.zherbert.com/bitkey/">Block’s Bitkey “Hardware Wallet” will Violate your Privacy and Security</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://supertestnet.github.io/musig-playground/">Supertestnet MuSig Playground</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.blockstream.com/greenlight-by-blockstream-scalable-non-custodial-lightning-infrastructure-now-open-to-developers/">Greenlight API goes live</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://nodeless.io/">Nodeless: Accept Bitcoin Payments (Lightning API)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://enteropositivo.github.io/bip39colors/">BIP39 Colors</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://payjoindevkit.org/blog/pdk-an-sdk-for-payjoin-transactions/">PDK: A Payjoin SDK</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/civkit/civkit-node">CivKit Node</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-splicing-update">Phoenix update</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="network-data">Network data</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://utxo.live/oracle/">Bitcoin price estimation from on-chain data</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1706937041739530556">Invalid Marathon Block</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/observations/07-invalid-block-809478/">Invalid MARAPool block 809478</a></li>
  <li>*<a href="https://blog.lopp.net/hunting-the-real-bitcoin-network-hashrate/">Hunting the Real Bitcoin Network Hashrate</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,1y,count">Mempool processing 1 sat/vB transactions after 6 months</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.lopp.net/revisiting-bitcoin-network-bandwidth-issues/">Revisiting Bitcoin Network Bandwidth Issues</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="europe--greece">Europe / Greece</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2023/html/ecb.pr231018~111a014ae7.en.html">Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://artion.gr/kriptonomismata-meteori-i-forologisi-tous-stin-ellada/">Κρυπτονομίσματα: Μετέωρη η φορολόγησή τους στην Ελλάδα</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing-lists</h3>
<h4 id="bitcoin-dev">bitcoin-dev</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022065.html">Ordinals BIP PR</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022049.html">Proposed BIP for OP_CAT</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022031.html">Examining ScriptPubkeys in Bitcoin Script</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021969.html">Solving CoinPool high-interactivity issue with cut-through update of Taproot leaves</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021942.html">Actuarial System To Reduce Interactivity In N-of-N (N &gt; 2) Multiparticipant Offchain Mechanisms</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021975.html">Draft BIP: OP_TXHASH and OP_CHECKTXHASHVERIFY</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021938.html">BIP-????: The Taproot Assets Protocol</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-August/021868.html">BIP for Serverless Payjoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021941.html">Scaling Lightning With Simple Covenants</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-July/021823.html">Pull-req to enable Full-RBF by default</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-July/021792.html">Blinded 2-party Musig2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-August/021849.html">BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021781.html">Some Day Peg: A crazy two-way peg bridging BTC to other chains Raw</a>
    <h4 id="lightning-dev">lightning-dev</h4>
  </li>
  <li>*<a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004122.html">Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 “All your mempool are belong to us”</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1715736832950825224">Visual explanation</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004126.html">Batch exchange withdrawal to lightning requires covenants</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004136.html">Removing channel reserve for mobile wallet users</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004099.html">Sidepools For Improving Payment Reliability At Scale</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004088.html">Practical PTLCs, a little more concretely</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004114.html?ref=blog.lnmarkets.com&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Payment Splitting &amp; Switching and its impact on Balance Discovery Attacks (preprint)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-August/004043.html">Resumable channels using OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-August/004064.html">Disclosure: Fake channel DoS vector</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004084.html">Remotely control your lightning node from your favorite HSM</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-August/004081.html">faster NIKE Sphinx or more secure KEM Sphinx</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-August/004034.html">Jamming Mitigation Dry Run</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-June/003977.html">Proposal: Bundled payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-June/003983.html">Security: BOLT-11 “payment hash” does not commit to payment!</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="pull-requests">Pull requests</h3>
<h4 id="bips-bolts-and-proposals">BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1086">BOLT4: Specify max HTLC nLocktime for expiry_too_far #1086</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1498">bip324: Remove garbage authentication packet (breaking change) #1498</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1482">Add James O’Beirne to 119 Author List</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1485">BIP 300: Various improvements #1485</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0300.mediawiki">BIP300</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIoTaJQNi0">BIP300 Whiteboard Video</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1472">ANYPREVOUT without ANYONECANPAY</a>
    <h4 id="bitcoin-core">Bitcoin Core</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28685">coinstats, assumeutxo: fix hash_serialized2 calculation #28685</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28651">Make miniscript GetWitnessSize accurate for tapscript #28651</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28718">v26.0 Testing #28718</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.0/test.rc2/">Download</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28331">BIP324 integration #28331</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27596">assumeutxo (2) #27596</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28251">validation: fix coins disappearing mid-package evaluation #28251</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27609">rpc: allow submitpackage to be called outside of regtest #27609</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27255">MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript #27255</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28599">Gathering Priorities for 27.0 #28599</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28550">Covenant tools softfork</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28311">WIP: BIP300 (Drivechains) consensus-level logic</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28008">BIP324 ciphersuite #28008</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27213">p2p: Diversify automatic outbound connections with respect to networks #27213</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27460">rpc: Add importmempool RPC #27460</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27981">Fix potential network stalling bug #27981</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27411">p2p: Restrict self-advertisements with privacy networks to avoid fingerprinting #27411</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26467">bumpfee: Allow the user to choose which output is change #26467</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27746">Rework validation logic for assumeutxo #27746</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27501">mempool / rpc: add getprioritisedtransactions, delete a mapDeltas entry when delta==0 #27501</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24914">wallet: Load database records in a particular order #24914</a>
    <h4 id="lnd">LND</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7828">multi: pong enforcement #7828</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7267">routing: Support Pathfinding to Blinded Routes #7267</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7904">multi: merge simple taproot channels staging branch into master #7904</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7516">funding: fund channel with selected utxos</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.16.4-beta">LND fix for memory leak</a>
    <h4 id="eclair">Eclair</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2613">Delegate Bitcoin Core’s private key management to Eclair #2613</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2703">Adapt max HTLC amount to balance #2703</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2726">Additional changes to delegate bitcoin core keys to eclair #2726</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2680">Add quiescence negotiation #2680</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2701">Record begin and end timestamps for relays #2701</a>
    <h4 id="bdk--ldk">BDK &amp; LDK</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/1041">Add bitcoind_rpc chain source module. #1041</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2660">More flexible fee rate estimates #2660</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2413">Route blinding MVP #2413</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2371">BOLT 12 Invoice payments #2371</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2486">Batch funding for v1 channel establishments #2486</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2547">Add an option to make the success probability estimation nonlinear #2547</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2412">Add API for constructing blinded payment paths #2412</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2337">Support third-party watchtowers in persistence pipeline #2337</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2507">Work around LND bug 6039 #2507</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2089">Add BumpTransaction event handler #2089</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2294">BOLT 12 Offers message handling support #2294</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2120">Routing to blinded payment paths #2120</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2319">Allow forwarding less than the amount in the onion #2319</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2156">Support MPP Keysend #2156</a>
    <h4 id="core-lightning">Core Lightning</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6421">Feat/unified invoices #6421</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6311">Remove developer configuration option / DEVELOPER, use –developer runtime flag #6311</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/releases/tag/v0.4.0">0.4.0 release</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6376">renepay: an experimental payment plugin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6253">splicing: Adds the features needed to enable collaborative splicing &amp; resizing of active channels.</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6035">Taproot wallet support #6035</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6399">Self-pay support. #6399</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6403">Runes migration from commando to lightning #6403</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/6303">setconfig: new command to set (a few!) config parameters dynamically #6303</a>
    <h4 id="secp256k1">Secp256k1</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1313">ci: Test on development snapshots of GCC and Clang #1313</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1129">ElligatorSwift + integrated x-only DH</a>
    <h4 id="btcpayserver">BTCPayServer</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/pull/5155">Add reporting feature #5155</a>
    <h4 id="rust-bitcoin">Rust-bitcoin</h4>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/1890">script: Add method count_sigops #1890</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #2</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-04-03-bitdevs" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #2" /><published>2023-04-03T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-04-03T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-04-03-bitdevs"><![CDATA[<p>It’s time for our second BitDevs!
The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner/drinks. We would like to thank <a href="https://www.yodeck.com/">Yodeck</a> for hosting us</p>

<h3 id="monday-april-3rd-2023--7pm">Monday, April 3rd 2023 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follow:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely
within the event.</p>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<p>Taproot discussion!</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-January/015614.html">Mailing list post</a></li>
  <li>Taproot BIPs
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki">BIP-340</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki">BIP-341</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki">BIP-342</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/taproot/">Optech links</a></li>
  <li>Taproot for Lightning Channels: WIP <a href="Taproot for Lightning Channels: WIP BOLT PR by Elle Mouton">BOLT PR</a> by Elle Mouton</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[It’s time for our second BitDevs! The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner/drinks. We would like to thank Yodeck for hosting us]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #1</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-03-13-bitdevs" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #1" /><published>2023-03-13T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-03-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-03-13-bitdevs"><![CDATA[<p>Come join us for the very first BitDevs Athens!
The event will be held in English and is free. We would like to thank <a href="https://thecube.gr/">The Cube</a> for hosting us!</p>

<h3 id="monday-march-13th-2023--7pm">Monday, March 13th 2023 @ 7PM</h3>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>

<ol>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings.</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: you may
reiterate the contents of the meeting <em>without</em> attribution.</li>
</ol>

<p>These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.</p>

<h1 id="agenda">Agenda</h1>

<p>How do wallets identify which Bitcoin UTXOs are spendable by you? Covering common script templates</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook">Mastering Bitcoin</a>
    <ul>
      <li>Chapter 6 Transactions</li>
      <li>Chapter 7 Advanced Transactions and Scripting</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://walletsrecovery.org">https://walletsrecovery.org</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Introduction to Bitcoin Miniscript</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/">https://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/miniscript/">https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/miniscript/</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://btctranscripts.com/advancing-bitcoin/2020/2020-02-06-andrew-poelstra-miniscript-intro/">https://btctranscripts.com/advancing-bitcoin/2020/2020-02-06-andrew-poelstra-miniscript-intro/</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>How should I prepare?</strong> Read the material.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Come join us for the very first BitDevs Athens! The event will be held in English and is free. We would like to thank The Cube for hosting us!]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar #0</title><link href="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-02-18-bitdevs-genesis" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar #0" /><published>2023-02-18T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-02-18T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>//bitdevs-athens.com/bitdevs-genesis</id><content type="html" xml:base="//bitdevs-athens.com/2023-02-18-bitdevs-genesis"><![CDATA[<p>Topics:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Organizing BitDevs Athens</li>
  <li>Scheduling Seminar 1</li>
  <li>Deciding candidate technical topics for Seminar 1</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Topics: Organizing BitDevs Athens Scheduling Seminar 1 Deciding candidate technical topics for Seminar 1]]></summary></entry></feed>