Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s MC: Leo Weese

bitcoin-dev

• ECDSA in Bitcoin script
• Unstoppable JPGs In Private Keys
• Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin
• The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin
• Implications of OP_RETURN changes in upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30.0
• Reduced Data Temporary Softfork #2017
• Lopp: It’s Knot a Serious Project
• Optimal threshold signatures in Bitcoin
• Segregated OP_RETURN proposal
• Bitcoin Node Repository Consensus-Policy Separation
• Payjoin UX challenges

lightning-dev

• Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

Optech

• Eclair: Preimage Extraction Exploit
• npm debug and chalk packages compromised
• Deep dive: inside the npm supply chain attack
• Coincards Security Incident
• North Korean hackers increasingly targeting wealthy crypto holders

Bitcoinomics

• The Rise Of Bitcoin As Money Continues: Becoming A Medium Of Exchange
• LQWD: Bitcoin Treasury 2.0 – Strategy Brief & Metrics Standard

Network Data

• Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade

Mining

• Stratum Analysis Panel

Token Layer

• Spark and Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos
• Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For
• RGB Yellowpaper released
• Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet
• Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet
• State of Rootstock 2025

Regulatory

• Did Canada Just Rob An OG Exchange Of $32,000,000?
• RCMP claim record cryptocurrency seizure of $56M in money laundering probe
• How fraudsters are using crypto ATMs to launder millions from Canadian scam victims
• B.C. crypto company lands record $176-million fine from FINTRAC
• B.C. woman who lost $670K in crypto scam fails to recover funds in Supreme Court
• Paypal to implement Bitcoin and Lightning payments

New Releases

• Tollgate
• Shakepay enables Lightning withdrawals
• Bitcoin for Signal
• 402 Money API Marketplace
• Minimalistic Electrum server implementation that indexes and serves only chainstate data
• Phoenix supports Taproot Channels

Events and Podcasts

• Heating a Public Pool with Bitcoin Mining: Live from the Learning Bitcoin Conference Vancouver
• Jarrett on CBC The Early Edition about BC firm fined by FINTRAC
• Voltage co-founder: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is bringing crypto into daily life

Miscellaneous

• The Historical Analogy Behind the Bitcoin Whitepaper