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Presentations:
• Ryan Shea - Blockstack DNS cli
Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core[masked] Released
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/23/release-0.12.0/
Github Issues/Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7533
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7534
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7542
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7551
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7552
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7558
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7568
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7600
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7601
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7507
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7544
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7561
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7543
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7524
Weekly IRC Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/02/11/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/02/18/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/02/25/
Blocksonly mode BW savings, the limits of efficient block xfer, and better relay
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377345.0
The first successful Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-contingent-payments-announcement/
[bitcoin-dev] Hardfork to fix difficulty drop algorithm
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-March/012489.html
[bitcoin-dev] SIGHASH_NOINPUT in Segregated Witness
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012460.html
[bitcoin-dev] Fast bootstrapping with a pre-generated UTXO-set database
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-February/012478.html
Empty Blocks
https://imgur.com/a/MwEUX
Orphan Risk at 75% Hard Fork
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/450llw/forking_at_75_miner_support_has_large_orphan_risk/
Early detection of unintentional block withholding |
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2016/02/detecting-unintentional-block.html
Bitcoin Fees vs Supply and Demand
http://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2016/02/18/bitcoin-fees-vs-supply-and-demand
More on transaction fees and block size
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2016/03/more-on-transaction-fees-and-block-size.html
Mining Stats
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2016/03/february-28th-2016-block-maker.html
BIP16vs17
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34mrtj/eli5_why_is_peter_todd_important_and_why_do_some/cqxfkdh
Getting Started with the Alpha Sidechain
https://test.elementsproject.org/sidechains/alpha/getting-started.html
https://test.elementsproject.org/elements/
21 Micropayment Channels Client Library
https://21.co/learn/21-lib-channels/#the-21-payment-channels-client-library
https://medium.com/@21/true-micropayments-with-bitcoin-e64fec23ffd8#.5g6zu5njx
A scala implementation of the Lightning Network
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
A highly performant merkle set data structure
https://github.com/bramcohen/MerkleSet
Track Mempool Clearing Process
https://www.kaiko.com/blockchain
Lightning Network Simulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFt9-lKWyo
ABCore - Android Bitcoin Core
https://github.com/greenaddress/abcore
Speed Optimizations in Bitcoin Key Recovery Attacks
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/103.pdf
On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf
Bitcoin Vaults
http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/MES16.pdf
Princeton Bitcoin Textbook
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeton-bitcoin-textbook-is-now-freely-available/
On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains
http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf
ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via Nonintrusive Physical Side Channels
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/230.pdf
Approximate Bitcoin Mining
http://rakeshk.crhc.illinois.edu/dac_16_cam.pdf
Incentive Compatibility of Bitcoin Mining Pool Reward Functions
http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/SBBR16-FC-mining_pool_reward_incentive_compatibility.pdf