<?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="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-06-19T23:30:21+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/feed.xml</id><title type="html">BitDevs Victoria</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 22</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-06-19-socratic-seminar-22" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 22" /><published>2026-06-19T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-19T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-22</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-06-19-socratic-seminar-22"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 22nd 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/public-key-recovery-for-ec-leaves-in-p2mr-bip-360/2603">Public key recovery for EC leaves in P2MR (BIP-360)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/a-bitcoin-native-llm-dataset-architecture-and-open-questions/2550">A Bitcoin-native LLM: dataset, architecture and open questions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/quantum-attack-game-theory/2524">Quantum Attack Game Theory</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/new-post-quantum-bitcoin-proposal-using-winternitz-lamport-auth-chains/2525">New Post Quantum Bitcoin Proposal using WInternitz + Lamport auth chains</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/qcap-a-bitcoin-native-quantum-canary-alert/2498">QCAP: A Bitcoin-Native Quantum Canary Alert</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core-general-developer-meetings">Bitcoin Core general developer meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-05-28.html#l-194">May 28</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-06-04.html#l-165">June 04</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-06-11.html#l-173">June 11</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/06/12/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #409</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/06/05/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #408</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/29/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/11/bitcoin-mining-pools-with-75-of-btc-hashrate-join-open-standard-for-block-construction" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin mining pools with 75% of BTC hashrate join open standard for block construction</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/n-days" style="color: blue;">Measuring LLMs’ impact on N-day exploits</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12759">Predicting Channel Closures in the Lightning Network with Machine Learning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.00071">Bitcoin Price Prediction: Peer-Reviewed Evidence and Social Media Discourse</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.04975">Probabilistic Atomic Swaps for Bitcoin and Friends</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2054633189621035166" style="color: blue;">Claude helps recover Bitcoin wallet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/vulnerability-disclosure-assertion-dos-in-core-lightning/2507">Vulnerability Disclosure: Assertion DoS in Core Lightning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/project-lightwell-secure-open-source">IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.tftc.io/zcash-orchard-vulnerability-privacy-inflation-bug/">Zcash Orchard Vulnerability: “Three People Froze the Whole Pool”</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="new-releases">New Releases</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-06-11-lnd-0.21-launch/">LND v0.21.0</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.second.tech/bark-now-on-bitcoin-mainnet/">Bark now on bitcoin mainnet</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="ai">AI</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929">Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access">Anthropic Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bennet.org/learn/silent-payments-bitcoin-privacy/" style="color: blue;">Silent Payments: a hands-on guide to better Bitcoin privacy</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://zeusln.com/lightning-economics">LIGHTNING ECONOMICS from ZeusLN</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="beginners-learning-resources">Beginners Learning Resources</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://second.tech/docs/learn/intro">Intro to the Ark protocol</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://btcrecover.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">BTCRecover</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stratumprotocol.org/specification/00-abstract/">Stratum V2</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/gregzaj1/status/2055360791197413635">Being a Millenial</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 22nd 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 21</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-04-24-socratic-seminar-21" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 21" /><published>2026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-21</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-04-24-socratic-seminar-21"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 21st 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/compact-isogeny-pqc-can-replace-hd-wallets-key-tweaking-silent-payments/2324">Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/onion-message-jamming-in-the-lightning-network/2414/5">Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bip-360-pq-authorization-as-a-native-bitcoin-pq-vault-lane/2409">BIP 360 + PQ authorization as a native Bitcoin PQ vault lane?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bip-proposal-stateless-psbt-coordination-blind-relay/2369">BIP Proposal: Stateless PSBT Coordination (Blind Relay)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/new-utreexo-releases/2371">New Utreexo releases</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/letting-untrusted-llms-sign-bitcoin-batches-mcp-bridge-tee-enforced-25-tx-daisy-chains/2410">Letting Untrusted LLMs Sign Bitcoin Batches: MCP Bridge + TEE-Enforced 25-Tx Daisy Chains</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core-general-developer-meetings">Bitcoin Core general developer meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-03-26.html#l-155">March 26</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-04-02.html#l-129">April 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-04-09.html#l-260">April 9</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1323">2026/03/09</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1328">2026/04/06</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/04/10/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #400</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/04/17/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/04/24/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #402</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://coinshares.com/corp/insights/research-data/bitcoin-mining-report-q1-2026/" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin mining report: Q1 2026</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="quantum">Quantum</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline" style="color: blue;">Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/nvk/status/2041162989760590171" style="color: blue;">“I” Spent “200” Hours Reading Quantum Computing Papers So You Don’t Have To</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/jlopp/bips/blob/quantum_migration/bip-0361.mediawiki" style="color: blue;"> BIP 361</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/shrimps-2-5-kb-post-quantum-signatures-across-multiple-stateful-devices/2355">SHRIMPS: 2.5 KB post-quantum signatures across multiple stateful devices</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/presidiobtc/bitcoin-quantum/">Bitcoin’s Quantum Readiness: Exposure, Mitigations, and Upgrade Paths</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stacker.news/items/1476783">The case for freezing quantum vulnerable coins</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.17261">Deanonymizing Bitcoin Transactions via Network Traffic Analysis with Semi-supervised Learning</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://am-i.exposed" style="color: blue;">Am I Exposed</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/Multicripto/status/2034357387486691761">What does it detect…</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/bitrefill/status/2033931580352221656">Bitrefill Hack</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/jimmysong/status/2033954488965361886">Jimmy Song hacked</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/wife-spying-on-husband-stealing-bitcoin">Till Death or Seed Phrase: Woman Accused of Spying on Husband, Stealing $172 Million in Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millions-of-iphones/">Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2039706629596237831">Drift Protocol on Solana hacked</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sfist.com/2026/04/03/three-tennessee-men-arrested-in-connection-with-crypto-heist-near-dolores-park/">Three Tennessee Men Arrested In Connection With Crypto Heist Near Dolores Park</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ledger-live-app-on-apples-app-store-stole-95m-in-crypto/">Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store stole $9.5M in crypto</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data">Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/uk-government-says-100-countries-have-spyware-that-can-hack-peoples-phones">UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/KelpDAO/status/2046332070277091807">KelpDAO Exploit</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/arkham/status/2046272798776283606">KELPDAO EXPLOIT: DOES AAVE HAVE BAD DEBT OR NOT?</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/north-korea-hackers-blamed-for-290m-crypto-theft/">North Korean hackers blamed for $290M crypto theft</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h2 id="new-releases">New Releases</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/discussions/10766">LND v0.21.0-beta Release Candidate</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v26.04">Core Lightning v26.04</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-31.0/">Bitcoin Core 31.0</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.nydig.com/research/strc-sata-and-the-bitcoin-backed-preferred-family">STRC, SATA, and the Bitcoin-Backed Preferred Family</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/third-way-case-implementation-jimmy-song-qaiic/">The Third Way: The Case for a Third Implementation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0054.md">BIP 54: Consensus Cleanup</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/tftc21/status/2040096034072965138">Utreexo update</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="ai">AI</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.moneyforai.org" style="color: blue;">Money For AI</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://402index.io">402 Index</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878" style="color: blue;">Github scaling hard to cope with AI generated slop</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-03-11-L402-for-agents/">The Future Is Now: Why L402 Is the Internet-Native Payments Protocol for Agents</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/CryptoCurb/status/2046387685233713499">De-gen-Fi</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 21st 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 20</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-02-13-socratic-seminar-20" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 20" /><published>2026-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-20</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2026-02-13-socratic-seminar-20"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 20th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disposing-of-dust-attack-utxos/2215">Disposing of “dust attack” UTXOs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/programming-lightning-an-introduction-to-payment-channels/2209">Programming Lightning: An Introduction to Payment Channels</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/op-cat-and-bitcoin-s-path-to-quantum-resistance/2207">OP_CAT and Bitcoin’s Path to Quantum Resistance</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/a-mathematical-theory-of-payment-channel-networks/2204">A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/silent-payments-notifications-via-nostr/2203">Silent Payments notifications via Nostr</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core-general-developer-meetings">Bitcoin Core general developer meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-01-22.html#l-182">January 22</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-01-29.html#l-158">January 29</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2026-02-05.html#l-164">February 05</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1311">January 12</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1315">February 09</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/30/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/02/06/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/02/13/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://hashrateindex.com/blog/global-hashrate-heatmap-update-q1-2026/" style="color: blue;">Global Hashrate Heatmap Update: Q1 2026</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11457">The Pinnacle Architecture: Reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100 000 physical qubits using quantum LDPC codes</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01436">Bithoven: Formal Safety for Expressive Bitcoin Smart Contracts</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://shibaura.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/routing-method-resolving-privacy-latency-dilemma-in-blockchain-pa/">Routing Method Resolving Privacy-Latency Dilemma in Blockchain Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/049">Argo MAC: Garbling with Elliptic Curve MACs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://fc26.ifca.ai/preproceedings/113.pdf">How To Make Delegated Payments on Bitcoin: A Question for the AI Agentic Future</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11331453">Scaling Efficiency and Incentive Mechanism Optimization in the Bitcoin Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720926000059">MAN: Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks in Anonymous Multihop Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/" style="color: blue;">Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/ModernDad/status/2021675945581486309" style="color: blue;">Panic call</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://aisle.com/blog/what-ai-security-research-looks-like-when-it-works">What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/">Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="new-releases">New Releases</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.20.1-beta">LND v0.20.1-beta</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL/releases/tag/v0.15.8">RTL v0.15.8-beta</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/713/">HASH-BASED SIGNATURES FOR BITCOIN’S POST-QUANTUM FUTURE? WITH JONAS NICK - SLP713</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/CitadelDispatch/cd188-corallo--stealing-satoshis-satoshis">CD188: CORALLO - STEALING SATOSHI’S SATOSHIS</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrW4dUc_U4">The History of SegWit and Taproot - with Pieter Wuille</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0360.mediawiki" style="color: blue;"> BIP360 Pay To Merkle Root (P2MR)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1895">BIP361: Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-11-ln-agent-tools/">The Agents Are Here and They Want to Transact: Powering the AI Economy with Lightning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34517" style="color: blue;">Gloria Zhao left Bitcoin development</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/murchandamus/status/2016592831448830279">Murch’s post</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="">Epstein Files Bitcoin connection</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/adam3us/status/2018069917967233443">Adam Back’s clarification</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00673391.pdf">Austin Hill</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/SimonDixonTwitt/status/2018462335585693736">Jeremy Rubin</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="https://x.com/jungleincxrp/status/2018024140243165657">Another email</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/2018748159107739674">Bryan Bishop</a>
        <h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
        <p><a href="https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html">Bot posts drama blog</a></p>
      </li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132">Rejected pr</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 20th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 19</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-12-12-socratic-seminar-19" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 19" /><published>2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-19</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-12-12-socratic-seminar-19"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 19th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/generalizing-rbf-under-cluster-mempool/2115">Generalizing RBF under Cluster Mempool</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/gossip-observer-new-project-to-monitor-the-lightning-p2p-network/2105">Gossip Observer: New project to monitor the Lightning P2P network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/benchmarking-bitcoin-script-evaluation-for-the-varops-budget-great-script-restoration/2094">Benchmarking Bitcoin Script Evaluation for the Varops Budget (Great Script Restoration)</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-core-general-developer-meetings">Bitcoin Core general developer meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-11-27.html">November 27</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-12-04.html">December 04</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1296">2025/11/17</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/11/28/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #382</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://nicosmid.substack.com/p/miners-are-near-break-even-as-hashprice">Miners Are Near Break-Even as Hashprice Hits Historic Lows</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://hashrateindex.com/blog/microbt-reveals-the-whatsminer-m70-series/">MicroBT Reveals the Whatsminer M70 Series</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-hashrate-growth/">Bitcoin’s Hashrate Growth In Context</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="network-data">Network Data</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/murchandamus/status/1854678133896626293">A thread on Cluster mempool</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04021">OTS-PC: OTS-based Payment Channels for the Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/14/how-we-avoided-side-channels-in-our-new-post-quantum-go-cryptography-libraries/">How we avoided side-channels in our new post-quantum Go cryptography libraries</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sites.ualberta.ca/~mkhabbaz/assets/pdf/Compression.pdf">On Scalability Power of Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19937">Outfox: a Packet Format for a Layered Mixnet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917">How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://conduition.io/code/fast-slh-dsa/">Making SLH-DSA 10x-100x Faster</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16376">Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3719027.3765082">Time Tells All: Deanonymization of Blockchain RPC Users with Zero Transaction Fee</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://cic.iacr.org/p/2/3/3">Towards Post-Quantum Bitcoin Blockchain using Dilithium Signature</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-025-00871-z">A spatial analysis of the use of Bitcoin as a medium of exchange</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://brink.dev/blog/2025/11/19/bitcoin-core-security-audit/" style="color: blue;">An Independent Security Audit of Bitcoin Core</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA251125">Account Takeover Fraud via Impersonation of Financial Institution Support</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/">Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-infinite-inbox-dos/">LND: Infinite Inbox DoS</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://proton.me/blog/introducing-breach-observatory">See the business data leaking onto the dark web with Proton’s Data Breach Observatory</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains?trk=public_post_comment-text">Shai Hulud Launches Second Supply-Chain Attack: Zapier, ENS, AsyncAPI, PostHog, Postman Compromised</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="new-releases">New Releases</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-12-03-lnd-0.20-launch/">LND v0.20 beta</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/703/">BITCOIN SPAM: A LIBRE RELAY VIEW WITH PROOF OF CASH</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeq-HmoHko">Stablecoins on Lightning: The Next Evolution of Bitcoin Payments</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/eleven-years-of-bitcoin-payments-data-report-2014-2025" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin Payments: Eleven-Year Data Overview (2014–2025)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1999617553442705619" style="color:blue;">Anniversary of Satoshi’s last public message</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://quantumdoomclock.com/">Quantum Doomsday Clock</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://accountable.us/trump-crypto-venture-wlfl-sold-tokens-to-entities-tied-to-north-korea-iran-a-notorious-money-laundering-platform/">Trump Crypto Venture WLFl Sold Tokens To Entities Tied to North Korea, Iran &amp; a Notorious Money Laundering Platform</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/">Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/s256anon001/status/1991867339839832147">Bitcoin changes you</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 19th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 18</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-10-17-socratic-seminar-18" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 18" /><published>2025-10-17T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-10-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-18</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-10-17-socratic-seminar-18"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 18th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/multichannel-and-multiptlc-towards-a-global-high-availability-consistent-partition-tolerant-database-for-bitcoin-payments/1983">MultiChannel and MultiPTLC: Towards A Global High-Availability Consistent/Partition-Tolerant Database For Bitcoin Payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/provable-cryptography-for-bitcoin-an-introduction-workbook/1974">Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction (Workbook)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/the-state-of-bitcoinfuzz/1946">The state of bitcoinfuzz</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/measuring-minrelaytxfee-across-the-bitcoin-network/1989">Measuring minrelaytxfee across the Bitcoin network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/peer-observer-a-tool-and-infrastructure-for-monitoring-the-bitcoin-p2p-network-for-attacks-and-anomalies/1988">Peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/33300">33300: Compact block harness (tests) </a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/32489">32489: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1286">2025/09/08</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1291">2025/09/22</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/09/26/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #373</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/10/03/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #374</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/10/10/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #375</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://nicosmid.substack.com/p/bitcoin-in-discovery-mode-safeguarding">Bitcoin in Discovery Mode Safeguarding Miners Revenue</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://nicosmid.substack.com/p/bitcoin-etfs-outpace-supply-as-mining">Bitcoin ETFs Outpace Supply as Mining Difficulty Hits Record Highs</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="network-data">Network Data</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://blog.bitmex.com/ordinals-impact-on-node-runners/">Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/theragetech/status/1968738674280956141" style="color: blue;">RCMP took down the exchange TradeOgre, announce via OP_RETURN</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://mempool.space/tx/e8a6c482503387d7215ce553c2b6157a2f6af574da2904c9bfba887f6ce9e646">Transaction</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://opreturnbot.eldamar.icu/" style="color: blue;">Lightning powered OP_RETURN bot</a></li>
  <li>Sampling of a few OP_RETURN transactions
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://mempool.space/tx/69e949cc57b460a17d9f8919ea846aa348b1bedcacfef0a97b78e3e0559abcc5">Tx id: 69e949cc57b460a17d9f8919ea846aa348b1bedcacfef0a97b78e3e0559abcc5</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://mempool.space/tx/52bade234be3212bcda799e01226052d6d0e4cb259374a41d70b6925139fc65e">Tx id: 52bade234be3212bcda799e01226052d6d0e4cb259374a41d70b6925139fc65e</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://mempool.space/tx/2ea2c04fba59f14cb36fd6054640b0bfa11dbabb5ac112d0f683f67783b3d9f2">Tx id: 2ea2c04fba59f14cb36fd6054640b0bfa11dbabb5ac112d0f683f67783b3d9f2</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinvn.io/news/lightning-network-stress-test/">BitcoinVN – Lightning Network stress test August 2025</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13448">Outperforming Dijkstra on Sparse Graphs: The Lightning Network Use Case</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560625001688">Hedging sanctions risk: Cryptocurrency in central bank reserves</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14524">Boosting Payment Channel Network Liquidity with Topology Optimization and Transaction Selection</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1001">A Plausible Attack on the Adaptive Security of Threshold Schnorr Signatures</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16052v1">How Exclusive are Ethereum Transactions? Evidence from non-winning blocks</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://8271513.hs-sites.com/deep-dive-inside-the-latest-supply-chain-attack" style="color: blue;">Deep dive: inside the npm supply chain attack</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://jdstaerk.substack.com/p/we-just-found-malicious-code-in-the">Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/09/15/samsung-issues-emergency-update-for-most-galaxy-users/">Samsung Confirms Galaxy Zero Day And Emergency Update</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/eclair-preimage-extraction-exploit/">Eclair: Preimage Extraction Exploit</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/phoenix/">Phoenix: Rowhammer Attacks on DDR5 with Self-Correcting Synchronization</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/north-korean-hackers-stole-over-2-billion-in-crypto-so-far-in-2025-researchers-say">North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto so far in 2025, researchers say</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ny5h01zbo&amp;t=1s">Bitcoin Core’s Inscriptions Funny Business</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/wbd957-antoine-poinsot">Bitcoin Core v30 Explained: Spam, Filters &amp; the Knots Debate - Antoine Poinsot</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/wbd954-samson-mow">The Fight For Bitcoin’s Future - Samson Mow</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://investors.block.xyz/investor-news/news-details/2025/Square-Brings-Bitcoin-to-Main-Street-With-First-Integrated-Payments-and-Wallet-Solution-for-Local-Businesses/default.aspx">Square Brings Bitcoin to Main Street With First Integrated Payments and Wallet Solution for Local Businesses</a></li>
  <li>The OP_RETURN debate
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/127895/implications-of-op-return-changes-in-upcoming-bitcoin-core-version-30-0" style="color: blue;">Implications of OP_RETURN changes in upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30.0</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/response-to-pieter-wuilles-stackexchange-answer-re-nuking-the-opreturn-filter/1991">Response to Pieter Wuille’s StackExchange Answer Re: Nuking the Opreturn Filter</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/" style="color: blue;">It’s Knot a Serious Project</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.therage.co/us-btc-forfeiture/">US Wants To Keep 127,000 BTC In Largest Forfeiture in History</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/script/return/" style="color: blue;">OP_RETURN - Learn me a bitcoin</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/BigSeanHarris/status/1971620178153926900">The life of being a Bitcoiner in 2025</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 18th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 17</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-04-25-socratic-seminar-17" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 17" /><published>2025-04-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-04-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-17</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-04-25-socratic-seminar-17"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 17th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<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/which-ephemeral-anchor-script-should-lightning-use/1412">Which ephemeral anchor script should lightning use?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lnds-deadline-aware-budget-sweeper/1512">LND’s Deadline-Aware Budget Sweeper</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/swiftsync-speeding-up-ibd-with-pre-generated-hints-poc/1562">SwiftSync – Speeding up IBD with pre-generated hints (PoC)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/cluster-mempool-partitioning-attacks/1548">Cluster mempool partitioning attacks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/post-quantum-signatures-and-scaling-bitcoin-with-starks/1584">Post Quantum Signatures and Scaling Bitcoin with STARKs</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/29532">29532: Refactor BnB tests</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/31664">31664: Add Fee rate Forecaster Manager</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/31689">31689: Benchmark Chainstate::ConnectBlock duration</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1244">2025/04/07</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1251">2025/04/21</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/04/04/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #348</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/04/11/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #349</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/04/18/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #350</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/blog/015-bitcoin-mining-centralization/" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin Mining Centralization</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/BikesandBitcoin/status/1904262616496935388">Mining Centralization Analysis</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="network-data">Network Data</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/softsimon_/status/1910955700441981231">Ark transaction on mainnet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/boerst/status/1906320686886400159">stratum.work visualization update</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/709">Thunderbolt: A Formally Verified Protocol for Off-Chain Bitcoin Transfers</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/225617/">Carbyne: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Mempool for Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/180.pdf">On the Atomicity and Efficiency of Blockchain Payment Channels</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952197625002258">Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the Lightning Network with Reinforcement Learning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07200">A Formally Verified Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://conduition.io/cryptography/quantum-hbs/">Hash-Based Signature Schemes for Post-Quantum Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10939002">CRP: A Cluster-Based Routing Protocol for Lightweight Nodes in Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/569">Solving Data Availability Limitations in Client-Side Validation with UTxO Binding</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://citrea.xyz/clementine_whitepaper.pdf">Clementine: A Collateral-Efficient, Trust-Minimized, and Scalable Bitcoin Bridge</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-excessive-failback-exploit/">LND: Excessive Failback Exploit</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/03/demystifying-the-north-korean-threat">Demystifying the North Korean Threat</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger">Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/">how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps</a>
    <h3 id="bybit">ByBit</h3>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/benbybit/status/1894768736084885929">Bybit Hack Forensics Report</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/how-north-korea-pulled-off-a-1-5-billion-crypto-heist-the-biggest-in-history/">How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/Nneuman/status/1893057396638904561" style="color: blue;">How the $1.4B ByBit hack happened</a>
    <h3 id="zoom-hack">Zoom hack</h3>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/jakegallen_/status/1910702560266318287">Tactics used to take COMPLETE CONTROL of your computer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/17/mitigating-elusive-comet-zoom-remote-control-attacks/" style="color: blue;">Mitigating ELUSIVE COMET Zoom remote control attacks</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/645/">Ark: Scaling Bitcoin Payments with Steven Roose SLP645</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yg6cLsQHE">Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks w/ Jameson Lopp MIT Bitcoin Expo 2025</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LA7ReARCQ">Bitcoin, Not Crypto — Part I: In Search of a Finite Monetary Policy</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YroOIC8eDrk">Bitcoin, Not Crypto — Part II: Bitcoin, Not Blockchain</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsgZjAPjxDU">Bitcoin, Not Crypto — Part III: Everything Will Be Built on Bitcoin</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://ark-protocol.org/index.html" style="color: blue;">ARK Protocol</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sovereigntools.com" style="color: blue;">Lightning Wallet Comparison Tool</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://second.tech">Second.tech</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arklabs.xyz">Ark Labs</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.btrust.tech/btrust-2024-in-review/">Btrust 2024 In Review</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/voltage_cloud/status/1892228262027219202">Voltage report on Lightning adoption</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-adoption-2025/">River Research - What’s Driving Bitcoin Adoption in 2025?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/usdt-on-lightning-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unknown">USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1912532208864092578">Volume: Stable coin transactios vs Visa payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-02-13-loop-musig2/">How MuSig2 Is Powering Lightning Liquidity with Loop</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/ldk-pathfinding/">Pathfinding with LDK</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://breez.technology/report/">Breeze Report: Bitcoin Payments From Digital Gold to Everyday Currency</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/it-all-comes-back-to-bitcoin-how">It All Comes Back to Bitcoin: How Stablecoins on Lightning Will Bring Exponential Growth</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/ArkLabsHQ/status/1915435703204520276">Prototype integration of Taproot Assets into the Ark protocol</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/OP_RETURN">OP_RETURN</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.casa.io/guide-to-avoiding-coinbase-scams/">Coinbase scams: How they work and how you can stop them</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/DzambhalaHODL/status/1913744690823991716">Creatine &amp; Bitcoin</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 17th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 16</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-01-24-socratic-seminar-16" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 16" /><published>2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-01-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-16</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2025-01-24-socratic-seminar-16"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 16th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/analyzing-mining-pool-behavior-to-address-bitcoin-cores-double-coinbase-reservation-issue/1351">Analyzing Mining Pool Behavior to Address Bitcoin Core’s Double Coinbase Reservation Issue</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-irrevocable-fees-stealing-from-ln-using-revoked-commitment-transactions/1314">Disclosure: irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/pluggable-channel-factories/1252">Pluggable Channel Factories</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/stats-on-compact-block-reconstructions/1052">Stats on compact block reconstructions</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/31397">Track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1216">2025/01/13</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/03/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #335</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/10/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #336</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/17/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #337</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/solo-satoshi-introduces-bitaxe-touch-bitcoin-home-miner/">Solo Satoshi Introduces Bitaxe Touch Bitcoin Home Miner</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/canaan-introduces-avalon-mini-3-nano-3s-bitcoin-home-miners-and-heaters/">Canaan Introduces Avalon Mini 3 &amp; Nano 3S Bitcoin Home Miners and Heaters</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="network-data">Network Data</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/mononautical/status/1880175477387850002" style="color: blue;">Block 879613</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-81404-4_10">A Novel Protocol for Mitigating Wormhole Attack in Multi-hop Payment Channels</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07435">Union: A Trust-minimized Bridge for Rootstock</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19384">The Internet of Value: Integrating Blockchain and Lightning Network Micropayments for Knowledge Markets</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10816058">maxREE: Maximizing Flow by Replacing Exhausted Edges in Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1995">BitVM: Quasi-Turing Complete Computation on Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/another-look-at-pq-signatures/">A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11419">An Analysis of the Correctness and Computational Complexity of Path Planning in Payment Channel Networks</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ledger-co-founder-freed-after-ransom-kidnapping/" style="color: blue;">Ledger Co-Founder Freed After Ransom Kidnapping</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/lopp/status/1882555743796396461">Ransom paid in Tether</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/GingerPrivacy/GingerWallet/discussions/116">Privacy Issue in WabiSabi Protocol</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wasabi-wallet-v2-4-0/">Wasabi Wallet v2.4.0: Send to Silent Payment Addresses</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/operators-of-blender-and-sinbad-mixers-2/">Operators of Blender and Sinbad Custodial Bitcoin Mixers Arrested and Charged with Money Laundering</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117">Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://ten31.vc/insights/quantum" style="color: blue;">Quantum Leap? Disentangling fact from fiction in bitcoin and quantum computing</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-2024-annual-review/" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin 2024 Annual Review</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://viewemail.nydig.com/quantum-leap">Google’s Quantum Computing Advancements Stoke Existential Fears</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blockstream-launches-jade-plus-signing-device/">Blockstream Launches Jade Plus Signing Device</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/silk-roads-ross-ulbricht-why-defend-a-murderer">SILK ROAD’S ROSS ULBRICHT: WHY DEFEND A MURDERER?</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://notebooklm.google.com/">NotebookLM</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/gregzaj1/status/1881405896196235538">World Liberty Financial purchased $47 million in Wrapped Bitcoin</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 16th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 15</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2024-11-22-socratic-seminar-15" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 15" /><published>2024-11-22T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-11-22T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-15</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2024-11-22-socratic-seminar-15"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 15th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

<h3 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/libbitcoin-for-core-people/1222">Libbitcoin for Core people</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/ctv-apo-cat-activity-on-signet/1257">CTV, APO, CAT activity on signet</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/research-paper-on-ln-payment-censorship/1248">Research Paper on LN Payment Censorship</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/a-fast-scalable-protocol-for-resolving-lightning-payments/1233">A Fast, Scalable Protocol For Resolving Lightning Payments</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/30239">Ephemeral Dust (tx fees and policy)</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1206">2024/11/04</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="optech">Optech</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/01/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #327</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/08/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #328</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/15/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #329</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="mining">Mining</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://ocean.xyz/docs/datum" style="color: blue;">DATUM protocol</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13784">An Exposition of Pathfinding Strategies Within Lightning Network Clients</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1768">Push-Button Verification for BitVM Implementations</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1802">ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8329">Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf">Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="infosec">InfoSec</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/Nneuman/status/1859279048179863582" style="color: blue;">Nick Neuman chat with scammmer</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://unchained.com/blog/email-marketing-data-leak-notice/">Relevant Unchained story: Notice of data leak by email marketing provider impacting clients</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack/ar-AA1rIZKx">U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/616/">Bitcoin Consensus with Steve Lee and Lyn Alden</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stephanlivera.com/episode/611/">Avoid Bitcoin Scams with Keith Gardner</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/jamesob/status/1857049961235403101" style="color: blue;">THE CONSENSUS CONUNDRUM - by jamesob</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-consensus-conundrum">Bitcoin Magazine link</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/introduction-to-stablecoins-in-2025" style="color: blue;">Introduction to Stablecoins in 2025</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap">Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lqwdtech.com/2024/lqwd-acquires-additional-bitcoin/">LQWD Acquires Additional Bitcoin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.tftc.io/senator-lummis-proposes-bitcoin-act-sell-gold/">Senator Cynthia Lummis Proposes Selling Federal Gold to Fund a National Bitcoin Reserve</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.tftc.io/bitmain-denies-huawei-supply-chain-investigation/">Bitmain Denies Links to Huawei Supply Chain Investigation</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.bitcoinforgenz.org/Bitcoin-Whitepaper-For-Gen-Z.pdf" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin: A Homie-to-Homie Digital Cash Vibe</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/dearvotion/status/1857195800922829255">Proposed redesign of Serbian currency</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/VandelayBTC/status/1854904048941470091">Gold’s only use case</a></li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Announcements Please join us for our 15th 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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Socratic Seminar 14</title><link href="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2024-10-11-socratic-seminar-14" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Socratic Seminar 14" /><published>2024-10-11T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-10-11T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://bitdevsvictoria.org/socratic-seminar-14</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bitdevsvictoria.org/2024-10-11-socratic-seminar-14"><![CDATA[<h2 id="announcements">Announcements</h2>
<p>Please join us for our 14th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

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

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/hybrid-jamming-mitigation-results-and-updates/1147">Hybrid Jamming Mitigation: Results and Updates</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/superscalar-laddered-timeout-tree-structured-decker-wattenhofer-factories/1143">SuperScalar: Laddered Timeout-Tree-Structured Decker-Wattenhofer Factories</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proving-utxo-set-inclusion-in-zero-knowledge/1142">Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero-knowledge</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/privately-sending-payments-while-offline-with-bolt12/1134">Privately sending payments while offline with BOLT12</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/the-path-to-general-computation-on-bitcoin-with-op-cat/1106">The path to general computation on Bitcoin (with OP_CAT)</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>

<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/v28-rc-testing">Testing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidates</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1171">Lightning Dev Summit Topics &amp; Notes</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1191">2024/08/26</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1195">2024/09/09</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="optech">Optech</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/20/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #321</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #322</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/10/04/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #323</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-mayhem/" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin Mining Mayhem</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://b10c.me/observations/12-template-similarity/">Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="network-data">Network Data</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://mempool.space/address/0430a00f6bea440b3300030f3283d5af7759d6330bb2cca2f43ae2dd8f408984be119c8b687f1eccef0a72a7b9166d330d40b0d193758b4654467d084aae79fbf7" style="color: blue;">Satoshi era coins moved</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://pins.grafana.net/public-dashboards/478199ff803c44138feb1439908e891f" style="color: blue;">Lightning Nodenamer</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/MPins/lightning-nodenamer">Code repo</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<h3 id="research">Research</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1338">Horcrux: Synthesize, Split, Shift and Stay Alive Preventing Channel Depletion via Universal and Enhanced Multi-hop Payments</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02650">SoK: Bitcoin Layer Two (L2)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15930">On the Lifecycle of a Lightning Network Payment Channel</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1523">Functional Adaptor Signatures: Beyond All-or-Nothing Blockchain-based Payments</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="infosec">InfoSec</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1836752923830702392" style="color: blue;">$243M Bitcoin Heist</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/10/08/disclose-blocktxn-crash/" style="color: blue;">Disclosure of node crash due to blocktxn message</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/">Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/2024/09/18/disclose-headers-oom/">Disclosure of memory DoS due to headers spam</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/">ATTACKING UNIX SYSTEMS VIA CUPS, PART I</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="new-releases">New Releases</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/28.0/">Bitcoin core v28.0</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/stephanlivera/status/1841445518221738357">Bitcoin Core Projects with Fabian Jahr and Gloria Zhao SLP607</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1o7TgTCMjk">v3 Transactions and Package Relay with Glozow SLP511</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0431.mediawiki" style="color: blue;">BIP 431: Topology Restrictions for Pinning</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/discussions/9104">TRUC in LN</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/discussions/9105">Ephemeral Anchors in LN</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://hackmd.io/@VzfUhtefQky1-i2_EY1HEQ/SyqBhQ8FR">Analysis of Bitcoind Policy Estimator Effectiveness for Long-Term Fee Estimation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/stratum-mining/stratum/discussions/1052">Discussion of Auditor role in SV2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitbox.swiss/blog/understanding-silent-payments-part-one/">Understanding Silent Payments - Part One</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoindevs.xyz/decoding" style="color: blue;">Decoding Bitcoin</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://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/policy/mempool-replacements.md#current-replace-by-fee-policy">RBF Rules</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki">BIP 152: Compact Block Relay</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/ICOffenderII/status/1844456289151111323">Yellow on Todd</a></li>
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<p>Please join us for our 13th 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.</p>

<p>As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:</p>
<ul>
  <li>No photos, videos, or recordings</li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule">Chatham House Rule</a>: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it</li>
  <li>Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!</li>
  <li>Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused</li>
</ul>

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

<h2 id="mailing-lists-meetings-and-bitcoin-optech">Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech</h2>

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

<h4 id="delving-bitcoin"><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/">Delving Bitcoin</a></h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/introduction-to-cluster-linearization/1032">Introduction to cluster linearization</a></li>
  <li>Bitcoin OP_CAT Use Cases
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-op-cat-use-cases-series-1-covenants/990">#1: Covenants</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/op-cat-use-cases-series-2-merkle-trees/988">#2: Merkle Trees</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/op-cat-use-cases-series-3-vaults/1006">#3: Vaults</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-op-cat-use-cases-series-4-recursive-covenants/1028">#4: Recursive Covenants</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/empirical-data-analysis-of-fee-rate-forecasters-for-asap-next-block-fee-estimation/1022">Empirical Data Analysis of Fee Rate Forecasters for ASAP (next-block) Fee Estimation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/onion-messaging-dos-threat-mitigations/1058">Onion Messaging DoS Threat Mitigations</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="meetings">Meetings</h3>
<h4 id="bitcoin-pr-review-club">Bitcoin PR Review Club</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/29775">Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoincore.reviews/30352">Add PayToAnchor(P2A), OP 1 &lt;0x4e73&gt; as standard output script for spending </a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="lightning-specification-meetings">Lightning Specification Meetings</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1183">2024/07/15</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1185">2024/07/29</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1187">2024/08/12</a></li>
</ul>

<h4 id="optech">Optech</h4>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/02/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #314</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/09/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #315</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/">Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #316</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="mining">Mining</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://nicosmid.substack.com/p/will-the-bitcoin-mining-bull-ever">Will the Bitcoin Mining Bull Ever Return?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/russia-legalizes-cryptocurrency-mining-in-new-law-signed-by-putin/" style="color: blue;">Russia Legalizes Cryptocurrency Mining in New Law Signed by Putin</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="network-data">Network Data</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://stacker.news/items/600187" style="color: blue;">Definitive explanation of my weird Bitcoin transaction</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="research">Research</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://hal.science/hal-03868779v1/file/p2pswap6.pdf">Ping-pong Swaps</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02147">Payout Races and Congested Channels: A Formal Analysis of Security in the Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08396">Towards SSH3: how HTTP/3 improves secure shells</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="infosec">InfoSec</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-update-crashes-windows-systems-causes-outages-worldwide/">CrowdStrike update crashes Windows systems, causes outages worldwide</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://x.com/0xB10C/status/1814261328317452572">No drop in Bitcoin nodes due to the outage</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://darkskippy.com" style="color: blue;">Dark Skippy Disclosure</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/Q2ZGit2wF7w" style="color: blue;">Bitcoin Core Security Disclosure Policy</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/_ys3Eu8-ORA">Public disclosure of 10 vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core &lt; 0.21.0</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/01goVlOCjBA">Public disclosure of 2 vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core &lt; v22.0</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://rekt.news/wazirx-rekt/">Wazirx exchange hacked for $235m</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack">Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://rekt.news/bittensor-rekt/">Malicious PyPi Package triggers $8m hack on Bittensor</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/discussions/13249">Wasabi Wallet Security Incident Disclosure:July 9th-10th 2024</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="new-releases">New Releases</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/lightninglabs/taproot-assets/releases/tag/v0.4.0">taproot-assets v0.4.0-alpha</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="events-and-podcasts">Events and Podcasts</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoin-explained/episodes/Episode-94-Silent-Payments-part-2-e2lo5p0">Bitcoin Explained - Silent Payments part 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://brink.dev/blog/2024/06/25/eng-call-fuzz-testing-lightning/">Matt Morehouse on Fuzz Testing the Lightning Network</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://brink.dev/podcast/5-bitcoin-core-21-disclosures/">Discussing 0.21.0 Bitcoin Core Vulnerability Disclosures</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinscholarship.xyz">The Bitcoin Scholarship</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bips.dev/353/">BIP353: DNS Payment Instructions</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/setting-up-a-bitcoin-username/" style="color: blue;">Setting up a Bitcoin username</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-23-taproot-assets-LN/" style="color: blue;">
Taproot Assets on Lightning: The Global Financial Interoperability Layer</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/assessing-the-lightning-networks-last-mile-solutions">Assessing the Lightning Network’s last-mile solutions</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="beginner-learning-resources">Beginner Learning Resources</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/decodetx/">Transaction Decoder</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://data.hashrateindex.com/chart/bitcoin-hashprice-index">Hashrate Index</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="meme-of-the-day">Meme of the day</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://x.com/DavidFBailey/status/1818056820205944972">Anyone know Jordi Montez?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://thedefiant.io/news/people/exclusive-with-jordi-montes-the-man-who-delayed-trump-at-bitcoin2024">Exclusive with Jordi Montes</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ordiscan.com/rune/JORDIMONTEZTONEARESTEXIT">JORDI•MONTEZ•TO•NEAREST•EXIT</a></li>
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