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PDX BitDevs Socratic Seminar #26
2024-08-27
Link to Meetup
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
- 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 September 28 2024
- Artist / Graphic designer to help with branding and web applications.
- Continue to improve the Portland BitDevs web experience.
Schedule
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Arrive, socialize, and grab some food.
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm: Primary topics discussion.
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Overtime discussions about tonight's topics or additional user submissions.
Bitcoin Dev News
- Intel SGX Compromised
- Not completely comprimised but master private key and sealing key both comprimised
- Path forward to completely comprimising the SGX
- SGX is no longer offered in desktop class processors, only Xeons
- Used in cloud environments to hide information
- Currently arm Secure Enclave ramins superior
- Testnet 4 PR Merged
- 5G Base Station Exploit
- Defcon Deauth attacks to force a 4g connection, then your phone upgrages back to the comprimised basestation.
- AMD Sinkclose Flaw
- Mempool v3.0.0
- Add Mempool Accelerator™ to accelerate TX from your own instance
- Add Mempool Googles™ new mempool and blockchain analytics tool
- Add RBF Timeline visualizations including support for FullRBF
- Add CPFP and Effective Fee calculations in block visualizations
- Add Liquid Network audit tool to verify holdings vs liabilities
- Add new Wallet Balance widget for embedding into external sites
- Add customizable CSS themes including a new high-contrast mode
- Add optional support for FreecurrencyAPI fiat currencies
- Add optional Redis support for faster in-memory database
- Add support for legacy P2PK addresses and outputs
- Add new block fees graph at /graphs/mining/block-fees
- Add new fiat calculator at /tools/calculator
- Re-design transaction page with new mobile "pizza tracker" UI
- Re-design address page with new balance history over time
- Improve Block Audit for accelerated transaction out-of-band fees
- Improve Websocket API to support tracking multiple addresses
- Improve search box now supports searching multiple networks
- Improve TV View to add new circular clock face view
- 'Dark Skippy' Attack
- Slipstream OP_CAT
- Not actually valid
- OP_SUCCESSx BIP342
- Makes scipts unconditionally valid as such anyone can spend.
- Could cause forks?
- Retroactive enforcements of rules burden devs.
- Roles of "Dev Hooks"
- IRC discussion with GMAXWELL IRC weblogs
Bitcoin News
- Bitcoin Core EoL Security Disclosures
- Mempool.space Block Time Analysis
- Smaller Pools seemingly keep better precision han the larger pools.
- BitAxe wins a block | I was wrong but still right
- 0xB10C Mining Pool Game Theory During Forks
- Blue Wallet v7.0 [1,2] Released
- Added total balance to the overview screen
- Ability to disable phone privacy blur
- iOS lock screen widgets
- BIP47 Address Support - Still needs an onchain TXN for payment code.
- Bisq 2.1.0 Released
- Support Lightning Network as a settlement method.
- Better visualizations
- Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Notes
- A better timewarp attack
- Coldcard PushTX
Tech News
- Hackers Leak 2.7 Billion Data Records (SSNs, Addresses)
- Telegram Founder Arrested - France
- Jullian Assange Ends Legal Fight