PDX BitDevs Socratic Seminar #19

Announcements

Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our host Primal Burger, for the event space. Please support them by buying their delicious food or a beverage.

If you can't make it to the main event please join us at Lutz Tavern around 9PM here.

Special Thanks | Mentions

• Jon Austen - Got the BitDevs upgrade working full hosting of the site soon™
• Rearden Speaking on LNHANCE - Feb 27 2024
• Thank you to everyone who shows up each month!

Rules

• Respect people's privacy
• Chatham House Rules
• Interaction and asking questions are encouraged!

Requests

• A guest speaker for March 25 2024
• Artist / Graphic designed to help with branding and web applications.
• A Portland BitDevs project to rally around.

Giveaway

• Use Guess the Nonce
  • 2 Tins of Bitcoin Blend coffee
    • PDXBTC && SHIPBTC for 30% off and free shipping
  • Freedom Foods - Premium Freeze Dried Food
    • Beef broccoli teriyaki
    • Spaghetti

Schedule

• 6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrive, socialize, and grab some food.
• 7:00 - 8:30pm: Join Eric and @PortlandHODL for a Socratic Seminar as they delve into the latest updates on Bitcoin & Lightning (so many current events to talk about!)
• 8:30 - 9:00pm: Overtime discussions about tonights topics or additional user submissions.

Bitcoin Dev News

• Loan Shark - Super Testnet
  • NOSTR Communication Protocol
  • 2 Spending Paths - Taproot [fail to pay, collaberate]
• LNHANCE
  • OP_CHECKTEMPLATE_VERIFY
  • OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK
  • OP_INTERNALKEY
• Rijndael OP_CAT Covenants
  • Uses Liquid
  • Andrew Poelstra Thesis
  • No need for OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK
• Pinning Attacks in V3 still possible - Peter Todd
  • Absolute fee still trumps fee rate.
• YABTCDB - Signed Integer TX Versions
  • BTCD used a signed integer to represent the transactions version
  • Responsibly disclosed
• Stamps causing sigops limits to be hit
  • Satoshi counts the sigops on each outpoint not input
• Mempool.space Googles Release
  • Visualized as stripes of packages
• Phoenix Wallet v2.1.0
  • Request inbound liquidity

Tech news

• P2MS (PERMIT_BAREMULTISIG) discussion lockd
  • Discussion has been locked by A. Chow
• Payjoin Client for Bitcoin Core released
  • Enables a coinjoin between 2 people that appears to be a single spend onchain
• Zeus 0.8 Released
  • OLYMPUS by ZEUS 0-conf channel service
  • Zaplocker self-custodial lightning addresses
  • Taproot Channel Support
• OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY regains community support
  • Twitter Post Supporting Covenants
  • Mailing List - Scaling Lightning with Simple Covenantsi
• Nyan Keys Bitcoin Mining Keyboard is actually Fast
  • 130µ Second Response Time
• Bitcoin Orange Party Tracker

Market News

• ETF outflows from grayscale continure
• ETF approval did not pump thy bags
• Grayscale outflows continue

Education

• Programming Bitcoin Part 1. Finite Fields
• Programming Bitcoin Part 2. Elliptic Curves