Announcements

👋 Please join us for our first ever Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to AssemblyNFK for the event space! 🙏

We will be meeting at Assembly again! Please make sure you are RSVP’d for entry via Meetup.

Reminders

• No photos, videos, audio recording
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar!

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• [Opt-in full-RBF] Zero-conf apps in immediate danger
• Peter Todd full-RBF Peering client
• [bitcoin-dev] Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 Released

lightning-dev

• Factory-Optimized Protocols For Lightning
• Two-party eltoo w/ punishment
• “Updates Overflow” Attacks against Two-Party Eltoo ?

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 25574 Improve error handling when VerifyDB fails due to insufficient dbcache (validation)
  • 26631 add coverage for dust mempool policy (-dustrelayfee setting) (tests)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • December 1st
  • December 8th
• Bitcoin Core wallet meetings
  • December 2nd
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • December 5th

Optech

• Newsletter #228 audio recap
• Newsletter #229, audio recap
• Newsletter #230, audio recap

Network Data

• 70 bitcoin deployed to lightning in november
• block mined by small pool, mmpool
• electrum server performance report (2022)
• inbound connection flooder down
• monitor fullrbf replacements
• top fee-earning lightning routing nodes 2022
• wallet of satoshi completing 11k payments per day

Research

• Bitcoin Security-Latency Under Network Delay
• (Concurrently Secure) Blind Schnorr from Schnorr
• Do Not Rug on Me: Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Scam Detection
• Jolt: Recovering TLS Signing Keys via Rowhammer Faults
• Stateful Layered Chain Model to Improve the Scalability of Bitcoin
• Stronger Security and Generic Constructions for Adaptor Signatures
• Threshold Signatures with Private Accountability

InfoSec

• Android platform certificates compromised
• BinaryWatch.org
• COVID-bit: Keep a Distance of (at least) 2m From My Air-Gap Computer!
• Malicious Python Packages Replace Crypto Addresses in Developer Clipboards
• Pwn the ESP32 Forever: Flash Encryption and Sec. Boot Keys Extraction
• SGX.fail

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• rpc: Return fee and prevout (utxos) to getrawtransaction
• p2p: Erlay support signaling follow-up
• wallet: bugfix, invalid CoinsResult cached total amount
• wallet: Avoid a segfault in migratewallet failure cleanup

lnd

• pathfinding: capacity-dependent apriori model probability
• htlcswitch: relax failure message length check
• lncli+chainrpc: add chainkit RPC service with endpoints GetBlock, GetBestBlock, GetBlockHash

eclair

• Improve htlc_maximum_msat in channel updates
• Implement correct ordering of tx_signatures
• Create routes to self using remote alias

Core Lightning

• lightningd: don’t announce names as DNS by default.

rust-lightning

• BOLT 12 invoice_request encoding and building
• Introduce new BumpTransactionEvent variant HTLCResolution
• Intercept HTLC forwards for JIT channels
• Add invoice constructor with custom payment hash

BLIPs

• Statechannels

New Releases

• 10101 v0.3.2, about
• Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 - mempoolfullrbf, sendall rpc, new headers dl logic, more
• bitcoin-inquisition v23.0, about - APO, CTV
• Core Lightning v22.11 , blog - reckless plugin manager, splicing scaffolding, more
• eclair v0.8.0 - zero-conf channels, channel aliases, BOLT 12 scaffolding
• libsecp256k1 v0.2.0 - schnorrsig, extrakeys and ECDH made default
• mercury-wallet v0.8.3 - i2p support
• Phoenix v1.4.24 - LNURL-auth updates
• poncho v0.4.0 - pay a hosted channel
• privpay-cli
• specter-desktop v1.14.0 - taproot psbt fields
• Tor Browser v12.0 - m1 support, https-only by default

Events and Podcasts

• APAC BitDevs - Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments
• Bitcoin, Explained 69: The Tornado Cash Trial
• CD82: Bitcoin Lightning Privacy Research + Browser Based Mutiny Wallet with Ben Carman, Paul Miller, and Tony
• CoreDev.tech 2022 Transcripts
• SLP438 Lawrence Nahum - RBF, Green, Jade, BuildonL2
• SLP439 Federico Tenga - What is RGB for Bitcoin? & Iris wallet

Mining

• Coinmetric’s State of the Network’s Q4 2022 Mining Data Special
• How Does the Current Bitcoin Mining Bear Market Compare to Previous Ones?
• November monthly performance: Argo, Bitfarms, DMG and more

Miscellaneous

• Anonsats: Payments Without Borders
• From Miniscript to Simplicity
• Ledger Stax
• Legends of Lightning 2022 Winners
• Lightning Landscape
• Lightning Privacy Introduction
• LiquiDEX v1: Solving the Range Proof Issue
• Merged Mining Part 1
• NYDIG research on bitcoin development
• Old signature posted on bitcointalk
• Scaling Bitcoin with Lightning as a Service (LaaS)
• Someone trolling Martin Shkreli with Hal Finney’s private key
• This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
• Using Bitcoin-compatible BLS signatures for DLCS - chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3