Socratic Seminar 35

[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]

BOLT12 Offers merged after 4 years
lightning/bolts#798

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2023 Brink Annual Report
https://brink.dev/blog/2024/09/25/2023-annual-report/

Report covers the contributions of the 6 bitcoin core contributors that Brink funds, focusing primarily on code review and testing rather than headline-grabbing projects.

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Saving Satoshi script editor
https://script.savingsatoshi.com/

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Bitdevs musig2 merged to libsecp256k1
https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1843311745860849940

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Research proceeds on using Functional Encryption to implement covenants on bitcoin with no fork
https://x.com/_weidai/status/1843526255045685253