Socratic Seminar 32

[vnprc]

Welcome

Hello Bitcoiners! This is where we'll organize the topics of discussion for our upcoming Socratic Seminar.

Please use this issue to suggest topics that you'd like to see discussed at the seminar. To suggest a topic, simply add a new comment to this issue with the topic title as the comment's title.

As we work through organizing the topics, feel free to edit and update your comments as needed. This will help us keep everything organized and easy to follow.

To help get us started, here are some main topics of discussion that we could consider:

• Bitcoin Core
• Lightning Network
• Scaling
• Privacy
• Media
• Miscellaneous

Remember, this is Bitcoin only, do not post about your favorite clown-coin.

Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to a great seminar!

[vnprc]

CardCoins open sources their batched RBFed payouts code.
https://github.com/CardCoins/additive-rbf-batcher/

blog post:
https://blog.cardcoins.co/rbf-batching-at-cardcoins-diving-into-the-mempool-s-dark-reorg-forest

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Maelstrom bitcoin grant program
https://maelstrom.fund/bitcoin-grant-program/

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mempool full RBF enabled by default
bitcoin/bitcoin#30493

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Dark Skippy - a hardware signer attack that leaks private key material in the form of 'random' nonces embedded in transaction signatures.
https://x.com/utxoclub/status/1820520960476561825

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Fedi main net release
https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedi-announces-launch-of-world-s-first-community-superapp
This announcement comes with a backdated commitment to fully open source the Fedi app
https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/on-may-the-fourth-fedi-went-open-source-here-s-why

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Taproot Assets v0.4 - first full feature release
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-23-taproot-assets-LN/

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Introduction to Cluster Linearization
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/introduction-to-cluster-linearization/1032

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Proton Wallet
https://proton.me/wallet

[vnprc]

Testnet4 launched
bitcoin/bitcoin#29775

The design and rationale are explained in BIP94
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0094.mediawiki