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PDX BitDevs Socratic Seminar #36
2025-06-24
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.
The Portland Bitcoin Group Meetup is now sponsored by the non-profit Bitcoin is for Everyone! Insider Tickets (shhh!) available for a limited time
Bitcoin is for Everyone Friday Aug 1st 2025 Revolution Hall
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 July 22. 2025
- Artist / Graphic designer to help with branding and web applications. [1.7 years in]
- Continue to improve the Portland BitDevs web experience.
Schedule
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Arrive, socialize, and grab some food.
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm: General Bitcoin Developer Discussion Lead by PortlandHODL and Eric.
- 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Overtime discussions about tonight's topics or additional user submissions.
Bitcoin Dev News
- Privatizing Bitcoin Core
- There are no additional explicit obligations beyond the license.
- Githubs poor moderation tools
- Use Gitlab (Private access for pulls/issues)
- A lot of development and discussion alreayd happening in private (Chaincode, Brink, etc..)
- Reduce interaction from non-technical activist users
- DoS Inventory
- Censorship Resistant
- Whirlpools are back!
- Ledger Recovery Key
- SE uses pin to access secret.
- Ledger Flex or Stax can use used to decode and display the secret
- Still closed source so what is the point?
- Licence issues
- BitVM Garbeled Circuits
- Current BitVM Transactions can be very large. (non-standard)
- Avoids this
- Bitlayer Partners with 45% hash
- Get NST mined into the chain
- Goal is large TXs presumably (unless the above takes foot)
- 1 sat/vByte Summer is here
- Knots Banlist
- Stark Based Mining
- Plausible deniability
- SV2 Implementation
- Selfish Mining
- Ephemeral Dust Hitting the Mempool
- OP_RETURN Uncapped as Policy (core)
- Non-confiscatory Transaction Weight Limit
- Age based expiration of UTXOs
- IMO a horrible idea, none the less presented
- Timechain Arcade