Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Happy Whitepaper Day!

• 31 October 2008
• Announced to the Cypherpunk Mailing List
• Celtic festival of Samhain, death and renewal
• All Saints Day was set to coincide with Samhain in 835
• 31 October 1517 Martin Luther proclaims the Reformation
• Separation of Church/Money and State
• Martin Luther was excommunicated on 3 January 1521
• 131 years until there was peace

• 131 years until the last Bitcoin is mined

• Satoshi’s Vision
• The Story Behind the Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
• static const int64 COIN = 1000000;
• int64 nSubsidy = 10000 * CENT;
• const unsigned int nTargetTimespan = 30 * 24 * 60 * 60;
• const unsigned int nTargetSpacing = 15 * 60;
• The timechain is a tree shaped structure

bitcoin-dev

• MEV on Bitcoin has arrived
• Covenant tools softfork pull request
• BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
• BitVM Primer
• Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs
• New BIP: Ordinal Numbers #1408

lightning-dev

• Phoenix splicing rolls out for all users on iOS and Android
• Instantly simulate real-world Lightning network activity
• Replacement Cycling Attacks on the Lightnin Network
• Settings to force anchor channels only that rejects legacy channels
• Removing channel reserve for mobile wallet users
• Universal Money Addresses by Lightspark

Optech

• MARA mined an invalid block again
• Mempool almost cleared
• Wallet Fingerprints: Detection & Analysis
• Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoinomics

2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• Bank of Canada cashless survey
• Opinion: Washington is quickly hurtling toward a debt crisis

Network Data

• Out of 763,130 Lightning payments made by Wallet of Satoshi, 684,120 had no fees
• The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years

Token Layer

• Runes
• BRC-20 griefing attack
• Peter Todd’s Drivechains Critique
• Lightning Labs Rolls Out Taproot Assets Mainnet Alpha

New Releases

• Send satograms over the Lightning Network
• LN+ Liquidity Pool
• Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Server Now Easier to Integrate with React Apps
• GPU marketplace open-sources codebase and launches 1 BTC bounty
• LNbits Node Manager released
• LND Speed Run 🏃
• Premise announces partnership with Neutronpay
• A bathhouse that mines Bitcoin
• Autozaps in Zapple Pay
• The ZEUS v0.8.0 open beta is here

Events and Podcasts

• Spotlight: Langley Bitcoin Meetup
• What Bitcoin Did: Decentralise Everything with William Casarin
• Unlocking Bitcoin: Bridging Gaps for Mainstream Adoption with Adam Soltys, Coinos Founder

Miscellaneous

• The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion
• Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring in the Heart of New York
• They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird
• Ray Youssef: The Ray Narrative