Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

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Today’s MC: Ana

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Today’s talk

The Halving

• Bitcoin halving code
• Bitcoin halving facts

bitcoin-dev

• BIP 21 update proposal
• BitVM And Its Optimization Considerations
• BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin
• TLDR by Bitcoin Search
• Hedgehog: A protocol for asynchronous layer two bitcoin payments
• Burrow: A federated pool for Hedgehog channels

lightning-dev

• What are the Lightning scaling ceilings
• Multi-path payments from multiple nodes
• Lightning Network Onion Routing: Preliminaries
• Lightning Network Onion Routing: Sphinx Packet Construction

Optech

• Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC’s 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message
• Vladimir van der Laan is considering a comeback to Bitcoin
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Bitcoinomics

• Waiting for confirmation: a series about mempool and relay policy

Network Data

• Bukele publishes El Salvador’s Bitcoin Piggy Bank address
• 32 BTC Coinjoin
• LQwD selling 10 BTC worth of channels on Amboss Magma
• Who is buying 100 BTC at a time?

Mining

• Introducing SRI 1.0.0 - the most important milestone in our Stratum V2 journey!

Token Layer

• eCash mints kicked out of LNbits demo server
• KYC and ecash
• Marathon block art?

Regulatory

• Bank of Canada Retail Payments Supervision
• Binance has officially delisted NGN from the P2P market.
• Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• New York Community Bank Tries to Reassure Markets After $1 Billion Rescue

New Releases

• Mutiny Wallet now available on iOS and Android
• Point of Sale system combines Bitcoin and card payments
• Phoenixd: A lightning server
• Sulu launches L402 Bitcoin price API
• Fedi Bravo is Here
• Axiom’s $1.5M Bridge Round for Neutronpay Expands LN in Asia
• ChatGPT4 you can pay with sats

Events and Podcasts

• Inside Costa Rica’s Secret Bitcoin Community
• Coinos: A Simple Solution for Merchant Adoption

Miscellaneous

• Bitcoin Is Trumping Dollars for Many Inflation-Weary Argentines
• The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul