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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
Requests
- A guest speaker for October 22 2024
- Artist / Graphic designer to help with branding and web applications.
- Continue to improve the Portland BitDevs web experience.
Guess the Nonce
- T-Shirt
- Bitcoin Coffee
- Pack of Pleb Cards
- Pack of Pleb Cards
Schedule
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Arrive, socialize, and grab some food.
- 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Guest Speaker: Jestopher - BancoLibre Demo
- 7:30pm - 8:30pm: Primary topics discussion.
- 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Overtime discussions about tonight's topics or additional user submissions.
Bitcoin Dev News
- Bolt12 Added to Bolts Repo
- Testnet 4 Consensus Failure
- Timewarp mitigation strategy to reduce block forward time from 3200s to 600s.
- Forked Testnet4.
- Alerted by NickH from Luxor something was wrong.
- Added MARA hash an resolved the fork.
- Mining Pool Similarities
- Floresta v0.6.0
- Expose some unexposed values for jsonrpc: Lets the user select between getting a serialized block or a json
- Bring our functional tests to life: attempts to build some basis for the Python-based tests
- Async add new address to electrum: Now, if you subscribe to an address that we don't follow yet, we'll start following it
- Implement tagged hashes for the leafhashes: This futures-proof the leaf commitment scheme from future modifications of the committed data, and it's now part of the utreexo protocol
- Connect cli option: This option lets you connect exclusively to one specific node, given its IP address
- Rework internal node structure: Use our actors model to build optmized nodes for each phase of the startup process
- Add AssumeValidArg enum and correct verify_script: This adds a new AssumeValidArg to make communicating the desired assume-valid more ergonomic
- Add batch request for electrum: Now electrum lets users perform multiple requests at once, rather than sending one at the time
- Add PoW fraud proof: Implement pow fraud proofs for our node and enable it on signet for testing
- Log to file: Now you can write the logs to a file
- Add lib.rs: florestad is also a lib now, it can be used on other applications and
- Download and store filters from the network: Now we can download BIP-158 Compact Block Filters and use them to recover historical transactions without downloading the whole blockchain.
- Cache headers on ibd: Hold headers in memory and save all-at-once, because the database can optimize some writing operations
- electrum: new experimental electrum endpoints: This adds some experimental (and not used by any wallet) endpoints to the electrum server blockchain.scriptpubkey
- Nixify: Add a nix-based build system and some developer tools to floresta
- ARC Transaction Performed on Bitcoin Mainnet
-Spec
- Bitcoin Core < 24.0.1 DoS
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