Socratic Seminar 51: Holiday Party

We are having a mini-holiday party to kick off the final event of the year. Please come on time to enjoy dumplings, mini-kegs, soda and other libations sponsored by our friends at the OSFDA. The party will be from 6:45-7:30 and the Socratic event will start soon thereafter.

If you can’t make it to the main event please join us for a social hour at Live Bait around 9:30PM.

Presentations:

• Michael Flaxman - bcwallet

• Rodolfo Novak - Coinkite

Discussion Topics:

0.11.2 Final Release
https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.2

Scaling Bitcoin Phase II
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLVGLsbGv-RqWyi4DYs7Qwg
(transcripts) https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011862.html

Bitcoin Dev Meetings
https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3uv39r/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151126/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3t1in5/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151112/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vsysu/bitcoin_dev_irc_meeting_in_laymans_terms_20151203/

[bitcoin-dev] Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011728.html

[bitcoin-dev] Upcoming Transaction Priority Changes
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011713.html

[bitcoin-dev] Opt-in Full Replace-By-Fee (Full-RBF)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011783.html

[bitcoin-dev] New lower policy limits for unconfirmed transaction chains or packages
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011722.html

[bitcoin-dev] further test results for : “Datastream Compression of Blocks and Tx’s”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011828.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011837.html

[bitcoin-dev] Blockchain verification flag (BIP draft)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011853.html

[bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system (segregated witness)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html

Is Core’s new libsecp256k1 safe & without mathematical backdoors?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=937058.msg10278072#msg[masked]

[bitcoin-dev] [BIP] OP_CHECKPRIVPUBPAIR
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-November/011827.html

Weekly Mining Stats
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/

Bitcoin block propagation with IBLT
http://popeller.io/index.php/2015/10/09/bitcoin-block-propagation-with-iblt-infographic/?utm_source=bitcoinweekly&utm_medium=email

sigops attack
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ur5ma/stuck_transactions/cxh9o4x

P2Pool Update
https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool/commit/86bbdac7eaaa03438e71ee9dcb11898c7b2b8bdf

BTCC launches priority blockchain transactions for its customers
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-giant-btcc-launches-priority-blockchain-transactions-its-customers-1529730

A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels
https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-106
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/716b955c130e6c703fac336ea17b1670/duplex-micropayment-channels.pdf

Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/578.pdf

Amplifying Side Channels Through Performance Degradation
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1141.pdf

[Lightning-dev] Better privacy with SNARKs
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-December/000365.html

Ring Signature Confidential Transactions for Monero
http://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098/20151111:093636

Early alpha: monero-like linkable ring signatures in Ethereum
https://github.com/ethereum/serpent/blob/develop/examples/ecc/ringsig.se

Ledger Journal Call for Papers (Deadline Dec 31st)
http://ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger/announcement/view/4