Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

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Today’s MC: Alex

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Today’s talk

L402s & Lightning-enabled APIs by Jordi

bitcoin-dev

• An overview of the cluster mempool proposal
• Bitcoin OP_CAT Use Cases Series #1: Covenants

lightning-dev

• DoS: LND Onion Bomb
• Bolt12 campaign website launched
• Matt Morehouse on Fuzz Testing the Lightning Network Slides

Optech

• Bitcoin Core vulnerability disclosure policy discussions report
• Kraken falls victim to rogue security researchers
• Security researchers respond
• Rootstock temporarily pauses peg-in and -out operations
• Fedimint guardians permanently offline after xyz domains taken by registrar
• Allow Fedimints to swap guardian domains

Bitcoinomics

• Bitcoin ETF Has Broken BTC’s Pandemic-Era Price Correlation With Luxury Watches

Network Data

• OKX spends US$17.5 million on onchain fees bidding against itself
• $9 Billion in Bitcoin: Mt. Gox to Start Repayments in July

Mining

• Foundry wins unlikely mining race
• $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms

Token Layer

• Introducing Brollups

Regulatory

• Donor To Anti-Bitcoin Rep. Brad Sherman Coordinates Wwith China’s “Magic Weapon” to Influence US Politicians

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve
• Progress on the preparation phase of a digital euro - First progress report

New Releases

• Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in Techno-Nationalist China
• Bitcoin Financial Platform Lava Unveils Exchange And Stable Payments
• Bitcoin Well enables Lightning to e-transfer withdrawals
• Neutronpay now available in South Korea
• Ark Labs launches, promising Bitcoin payments at scale
• Lightning Network request decoder
• Zeus v0.9.0-alpha is out
• Latin America’s Largest Fintech Bank Integrates Bitcoin Lightning Payments Via Lightspark

Events and Podcasts

• Oslo Freedom Forum Financial Freedom Track Livestream

Miscellaneous

• Erik Vorrhess’ keynote at the Coincenter gala
• Abandoned Adoption : Bitcoin Backslides and Hard Truths
• HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #17
• Lightning Is the Common Language of the Bitcoin Economy
• Bitcoin Lightning Alliance To Accelerate Adoption Using New Asset Protocol
• El Salvador Trip Report