PDX BitDevs Socratic Seminar #20

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

• 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
  • Freedom Foods - Premium Freeze Dried Food
    • Beef broccoli teriyaki
    • Spaghetti

Schedule

• 6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrive, socialize, and grab some food.
• 7:00 - 8:00pm: @reardencode presenting about LNHANCE a covenants proposal for Bitcoin Core.
• 8:00 - 8:30pm: Join @PortlandHODL for a Socratic Seminar as they delve into the latest updates to 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

• Coldcard Q1 Production Samples Go Out
  • Firmware released
  • Beta firmware 0.3 still has bugs that can brick, upgrade to 0.6 if you have one.
• LNHANCE
  • OP_CHECKTEMPLATE_VERIFY
  • OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK
  • OP_INTERNALKEY
• 27877
  • Coin grinder selection algorithm will
    • Optimizes to reduce fees in the current TX
    • Assumes fees network fees will go down so the next TX could/will be larger
    • Does this by minimizing inputs.
• Marathon Slipstream
  • This article sucks but still shows the general sentiment
  • Direct Submissions of TXs
  • Private mempool
• Bitcoin-dev Mailing List Migration
  • New location
• Rijndael OP_CAT Covenants
  • Uses Liquid
  • Andrew Poelstra Thesis
  • No need for OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK

Tech news

• 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

Education

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