Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

• Event space fundraiser
• BitDevs September 20 (Wednesday)
• Lightning Pints at Park Drive
• Bitcoin Block Party September 4

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• Old Country Pierogi, Food Truck
• Park Drive, Commercial Drive
• Honest Pete, The Beaumont
• Master Kebap, Downtown
• All Natural Meat, North Vancouver
• Gotoshi, Household items delivered out of Ontario
• Metro Communications, Business VoIP services

Today’s talk

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Enable Full RBF by default
• Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default
• wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm

lightning-dev

• Onion Message Support merged into Bolt
• LND begins to remove Litecoin support
• Is Lightning Scaling Bitcoin in a Way Nobody Predicted?

nostr-dev

• Payjoin over Nostr in BTCPay
• NIP 90, the data vending machine

Optech

• Lightning for those who haven’t checked in on it in a while
• Milk Sad
• f2pool launches Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator
• New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
• Chainalysis Investigations Lead Is ‘Unaware’ of Scientific Evidence the Surveillance Software Works

Bitcoinomics

• Bitcoin’s role in the ESG imperative

2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• Fitch cuts US credit rating to AA+; Treasury calls it ‘arbitrary’
• The Devaluation Run in Emerging Markets Is Just Getting Started

Network Data

Token Layer

• BitMEX Research: Drivechains
• Tether Share Attestation
• Expanding Transparency by Open-Sourcing Liquid’s Functionary Code
• Paypal launches USD stablecoin
• Bitcoin denominated ecash without custodial risk

New Releases

• Coinbase Looks to Add Bitcoin Lightning for Payments
• StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
• Bitcoinize Point of Sale Machine
• Phoenix 2.0.0 with splicing released
• Bitcoin Search meets ChatGPT

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

• Inside Prague’s Institute of Crypto Anarchy — where they’re plotting to bring down the dollar
• SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says
• Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them