Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s talk

Joule

bitcoin-dev

• Silent Payments: Privacy-preserving static addresses for Bitcoin.
• SNARKnado: A practical, round-efficient SNARK verifier on bitcoin
• Trust wallet forces users to reuse addresses
• The Great Script Restoration proposal
• First utreexo client available in beta
• Bluematt: Bitcoin’s Precarious Position

lightning-dev

• BOLT12 Has Arrived
• First Taproot Assets swaps in Lightning channels on mainnet
• NLightning, a dotnet Lightning Network implementation
• Stable Channels - peer-to-peer dollar balances on Lightning
• Blazing the Trails: Improving LND Pathfinding Reliability

Optech

Bitcoinomics

• ETF Fund flow for US and HK

Network Data

• Bitcoin surpasses 1 billion transactions since its conception

Mining

Token Layer

• The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end

Regulatory

• Hong Kong Vies With US in Bitcoin ETF Market After Crypto’s Revival
• What is happening with Hong Kong and Bitcoin ETFs?
• Federal prosecutors are examining financial transactions at Block, owner of Cash App and Square
• zkSNACKs to Suspend Its Coinjoin Coordination Service on June 1st
• ‘Drop in the bucket’: CRA targets millions in unpaid crypto taxes, investigating hundreds of traders
• Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto
• IBEX Pay is pulling out of the USA
• “Incognito Market” Owner Arrested for Operating One of the Largest Illegal Narcotics Marketplaces on the Internet

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• Americans Are Racking Up ‘Phantom Debt’ That Wall Street Can’t Track

New Releases

• First Lightning ATM in Canada opens in Vancouver
• Sherlock by Fewsats: registering internet domains with Bitcoin and L402
• Opensats receives US$21M additional Funding from Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall
• Bitcoin Lightning Wallet ZEUS Isn’t Going Anywhere
• Bitcoin Office El Salvador launches Mempool Space instance
• Silentium, a progressive web app for silent Bitcoin payments

Events and Podcasts

• Collision 2024, July 17-20

Miscellaneous

• Bull Bitcoin - Bitcoin Drain in the USA
• He Helped Create Silk Road — But Ross Ulbricht Should Be Freed
• BTC-e Operator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy
• The Arrest of Samourai Wallet Developers Shows the US Government Hates Privacy and Freedom
• He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market