Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

bitcoin-dev

• Formal Verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication
• Bitcoin Core CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash
• Generic signmessage
• TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind home NATs?
• Testnet5 proposed to deal with the issues of testnet4
• Core 31.0 released
• BIP Draft: Dust UTXO Disposal Protocol
• Consensus Cleanup: demo of slow blocks on Signet

lightning-dev

• Simple Taproot Channels merged into BOLT
• Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network
• Towards A K-of-N Lightning Network Node
• Rusty leaving Core Lightning

Optech

• Bisq Protocol Exploit
• Bisq Security Incident Post-Mortem
• CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments

Bitcoinomics

• Michael Saylor’s Strategy sells 32 bitcoin for $2.5 million as total holdings drop to 843,706 BTC
• Bitcoin, Fiat, and Islamic Finance

Network Data

• Coin selection for makers in anonimity protocols
• How wallet fingerprints damage Payjoin privacy
• Zeus Lightning Economics Report
• Bitnodes is shutting down
• Blink Weekly Brief

Mining

Token Layer

• Paul Sztorc wants to hardfork Bitcoin

Regulatory

• Entwurf eines Gesetzes zum Schließen einer Gerechtigkeitslücke bei der Besteuerung von Kryptowerten
• Antrag: Kryptowerte streng regulieren und gerecht besteuern
• Bitcoin Steuer LOL

New Releases

• LDK Server launched
• Lexe CLI
• SMS4SATS L402 Skill
• Lightning is live on NDAX
• Deutsche Börse Group erwirbt Beteiligung an Kraken für 200 Millionen US$

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

• Vancouver’s crypto-anarchist collective is searching for a new home
• How Trump’s crypto venture and Iran’s top exchange tapped into the same industry networks