Announcements

Please join us for today’s Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsor Bull Bitcoin.

Soundtrack

• Event space fundraiser
• CoinOS party at The Loft: 8 February 2023
• Nostrica Conference Costa Rica March 19-21
• Lightningcon Vietnam March 23-24
• Bitcoin Beach Philippines Retreat March 27-29

Accept Lightning payments in Canada

Find the notes of this talk here

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• OP_VAULT
• Why Bitcoin needs covenants
• SIGHASH_GROUP vs Ephemeral anchors

lightning-dev

• Do we need inbound fees on Lightning?
• Eclair now allows for blinded routes
• Non-interactive LN channel open commitments
• Deepdive: Opening Lightning channels

Optech

• Luke Dashjr hacked and Bitcoin Knots signing key compromised

Network Data

• How centralized is the Lightning Network
• 10,000 are streaming podcasts with sats
• LN Capacity still growing

Pull Requests and repo updates

core lightning

eclair

ldk

lnd

New Releases

• BTCPay Point of Sale interface
• Eclair 0.8.0 with support for zero-conf channels and channel aliases
• Liana wallet released
• LNTXBOT shuts down. Get your sats out!
• DIY offline coin changer
• LiquidOps by Bolt Observer
• First Lightning ATM in Australia
• Lightning payouts coming to Lincoin Pool?

Events and Podcasts

• Bitcoin Beach Vietnam - 23-24 March 2023

Miscellaneous

• Bitcoin Mining in Congo National Park
• Voltage: Where does the yield come from?
• Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried’s “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”
• Illegitimate Bitcoin transactions