Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s MC: TBD

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Today’s talk

Mat Balez on Bringing ₿ to the World and ₿-only design

bitcoin-dev

• The Evolution of Payjoin: From Two-Party Protocol to Multiparty Framework
• Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return (datacarrier) outputs
• OP_RETURN: Removing Bitcoin’s Guardrails
• Hourglass spending rules
• In 2010 OP_RETURN allowed anyone to spend anyone’s coins
• Swift Sync: Speeding up the Initial Block Download with hints
• Activate CTV and CSFS, a letter from the technical community
• Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset
• Quantum Safe Lamport Signatures

lightning-dev

• LND: gossip_timestamp_filter DoS
• Gossip rate limiting in LND

Optech

• Smallworlnd Nostr Liquidity place hacked

Bitcoinomics

• Liquidity requirements for Lightning payments: Ark servers and LSPs compared
• Research Update: A Geometric Approach for Optimal Channel Rebalancing
• Trustodial: An Ontological Dilemma

Network Data

• Block is making 10% yield on its Lightning node?
• Bitrefill is making 3.5% on their routing node
• BTC UTXO Oracle
• 15% of Coinbase’s Bitcoin transactions run on the Lightning Network
• Non-standard transactions in the Bitcoin Blockchain

Mining

• Rebar launches private mempol
• 350 anchors swept by miners

Token Layer

• RGB v0.12 consensus release

Regulatory

• Ken Sim’s Love of Bitcoin Makes Critics Nervous
• Games with Bitcoin payments now possible in App Store
• Vancouver company must pay $3.3 million for illegal crypto sales
• Meta in talks to deploy stablecoins three years after giving up on landmark crypto project
• Electrum announces plugins

New Releases

• Square enables Lightning payments
• Introducing the New Bull Bitcoin Platform
• Paying with Lightning at a convenience store in Switzerland
• BTCPay NBXplorer stuck
• Boltz Pro Launches Out of Beta: Stack Sats Non-Custodially by Swapping Bitcoin
• Bluewallet launches “hidden” wallet

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

• Looking at some claims that quantum computers won’t work
• Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
• Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen