It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22!
What is a Socratic Seminar?
Inspired by other BitDevs meetups around the US, our Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing and lively discussion.
- Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
- The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
- Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
- We go to a bar afterwards
Logistics for Tonight
Due to a scheduling conflict with our hosts, we're not going to be at NCR. This time, we'll try a Socratic Seminar at ATL BitLab and see how it goes. If this is your first time attending a meetup at BitLab, follow these parking instructions and join our telegram channel in case you need to ask for help finding us the night of the event.
Topics
🧡 Bitcoin
Bitcoin covenant tools softfork PR
ZeroSync STARK header chain verifier demo
The ZeroSync project announced a demo and repo using STARKs to prove and verify a chain of Bitcoin block headers.
Runestones
Caset Rodarmor (creator of Ord) tweets about working on "Runestones".
BitVM
BitVM paper - Compute Anything on Bitcoin
⚡️ Lightning
blip-0029: Taproot Asset Protocol Channels
Practical PTLCs, a little more concretely
Amboss launches Hydro liquidity service
LDK #2413 supports sending payments to blinded paths and allows receiving payments to paths where a single final hop is hidden (blinded) from the spender.
PR #2514, also merged this week, provides other support for blinded payments in LDK.
LDK #2371 adds support for managing payments using offers. It allows a client application using LDK to use an offer to register its intent to pay an invoice, timing out the payment attempt if a sent offer never results in a received invoice, and then using existing code in LDK to pay the invoice (including retrying if the first attempts don’t succeed).
Scaling Lightning with Covenants
Doppler used to find issue in Eclair
LND 0.17 released - includes simple taproot channels
Vulnerability Disclosure: "All your mempool are belong to us"
🧠 AI
GPUtpoia - rent out your GPU for AI operations, earn bitcoin
Start9 launches self-hosted LLM and self-hosted StableDiffusion
ChatGPT will be able to parse images and speak
🔒 Infosec & Privacy
Veilid - successor to TOR from Cult of the Dead Cow
Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
Obscura VPN - Carl Dong launches VPN service that cant track activity
📊 Business
Chipper adds Lightning - TBD
Blockstream Greenlight open for business
🟣 Nostr
Exit: backup twitter data and import to Nostr
$prism: Nostr lightning prism protocol
🎉 Fun
Footage released of Hal Finney presenting at Crypto ‘98
Bitcoin / USD pricing oracle that only depends on a Bitcoin Core node