Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s talk

bitcoin-dev

• Bitcoin Dev mailing list now on Google Groups
• Private discussion forums for Bitcoin developers?
• Vanity Bitcoin transactions
• Introducing Citrea: Bitcoin’s First ZK Rollup
• Add a BIP which resolves human readable names into payment info
• Perpetually KYC’d Coins Using Evil Covenants
• Simplest Ark Explanation
• Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011
• Short explanation of how Bitcoin Core ranks unconfirmed transactions
• OP_CAT explanation
• BIP editors needed

lightning-dev

• An upper Bound for the Probability to be able to successfully conduct a Payment on the Lightning Network
• chanbackup+sweeper: periodically checkpoint active sweeper state using p2p encrypted peer storage feature
• Lightning transactions with v3 and ephemeral anchors
• interactive-tx: Add dual-funding flow, using the interactive tx protocol (feature 28/29) #851
• Awesome L402
• Using LNC with your Aperture server
• “standard” encoding for invoice metadata

Optech

• A lightning address for every npub
• Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle

Bitcoinomics

• Binance sets cap on USDT for Nigeria
• Coinbase Commerce drops Bitcoin payments

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• NY Community Bancorp Plunges as Real Estate Risks Jolt Market
• New York Community Bank stock collapse

ETF SPECIAL

• Bitwise moves ETF to Segwit addresses
• iShares ETF hits US$5 billion in assets in five weeks

Network Data

• Wallet of Satoshi surpases 15 million transactions
• A single node is responsible for half of the penalty transactions in January
• Amboss launched Lightning analytics tools
• Marathon mining odd transactions

Mining

• Company that had 3 secret cryptocurrency mines must pay $400K, cease operations in Alberta
• Crypto firm fails in court bid to force BC Hydro to power it
• Braiins offers Lightning payouts

Token Layer

• Bitcoin Magazine Editorial Policy On Bitcoin Layer 2s (L2s)
• Wave of proposed “L2s”

New Releases

• Coinos allows users to configure auto-withdrawals onchain
• Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix
• Open-source platform for quantitative trading empowered by reinforcement learning

Events and Podcasts

• Watchman Privacy: Coincards - Buy Gift Cards with Monero and Bitcoin
• Damus & Nostr: Revolutionizing Bitcoin in Web3 William Casarin
• Take Your Business Global by Accepting Bitcoin (Adam & Cole, Coinos)
• What Bitcoin Did: The Hidden Cost of Money with Seb Bunney
• Bitcoin ossification debate

Miscellaneous

• “Fake income” mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks