Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s MC: Leo

bitcoin-dev

• Starkware announces ColliderVM
• Mysterious old outputs being swept onchain

lightning-dev

• Papa swaps as an alternative to HTLCs
• Lightning Anchors collected directly by miners
• Pathfinding with LDK
• How MuSig2 Is Powering Lightning Liquidity with Loop
• Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the Lightning Network with Reinforcement Learning
• LND’s Deadline-Aware Budget Sweeper
• Liquidity squeezing from your node

Optech

• Cryptocurrency APT Intelligence: Unveiling Lazarus Group’s Intrusion Techniques
• Demystifying the North Korean Threat

Bitcoinomics

Network Data

• About 15.4% of $BTC payments through CoinGate use LN
• 800 million people have access to the Lightning Network
• Wallet of Satoshi processes 21 million payments

Mining

• Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools
• Mempool Stratum branches
• Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power

Token Layer

• A New Era for Stablecoins: Tether Is Coming to Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡💸
• Tether Blog: USDT is coming to Lightning

Regulatory

• The U.S. Government Says Money Isn’t Property—So It Can Take Yours

(Central Banking) Banking Crisis

New Releases

• Alan Bits v1
• Blink and BitDriver Team Up for Bitcoin Home Delivery in El Salvador
• Banco Bisa Introduces Bolivia’s First Regulated Crypto Custody Service Using Tether

Events and Podcasts

• Lightning Labs Newsletter: It all comes back to Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• The goat: How Malawi’s store of value is rapidly destroying the country
• https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-silicon-valleys-corrupted-libertarianism
• Can Trump make bitcoin useful?