Socratic Seminar 58
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Discussion topics:
BIP 68/112/113 Activated via BIP 9
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https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/08/version-bits-miners-faq/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/21/csv-softfork-instructions/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r9tiv/csv_soft_fork_has_activated_as_of_block_419328/d4zmz2h?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4p4klg/bitcoin_core_project_the_csv_soft_fork_has/d4i7rwl
.13 Milestone
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/milestone/20
Issues/PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8170
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8176
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8182
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8206
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8259
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8235
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8323
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8307
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8266
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8279
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8179 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8068 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7749 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7600 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8113 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7957 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8083 (merged)
Weekly Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/09/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/16/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/23/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/30/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/07/07/
Segwit
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/24/segwit-next-steps/
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012747.html
https://petertodd.org/2016/segwit-consensus-critical-code-review
https://petertodd.org/2016/segwit-review-update
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4r6p99/vitalik_how_i_would_fix_the_issues_that_segwit/d4ysvw9
BIP 70 Extension
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012776.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4rd3he/netki_raises_35m_seed_round_company_is_the/d505xsc
BIP 151 Discussion
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012868.html
Weekly Mining Stats
https://organofcorti.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/sysmannet/status/750658030962876416
Compact Block Stats
Bitcoin FIBRE
http://bitcoinfibre.org/stats_ng.html
http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2016/07/07/relay-networks/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4ryziw/why_would_increasing_the_bitcoin_block_size_lead/d55avuv
Flare: An Approach to Routing in Lightning Network
https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/the-bitfury-group-releases-white-paper-flare-an-approach-to-routing-in-lightning-network-8bc263dcdc92#.19cydc285
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4roxim/bitfury_releases_proposal_for_bitcoin_lightning/d53653t
Hiding Money: CoinJoins
https://coinlab.com/blog/post/coinjoin/
JoinMarket’s privacy is degraded until further notice
https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/00255ecfe1bc4984fcf7c65e25aa8b4b
Minor update on transaction fees: users still don’t care.
http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=591
A developer-oriented series about Bitcoin
http://davidederosa.com/basic-blockchain-programming/
Transaction Queue Statistics
http://www.bitcoinqueue.com/live.html
Blockchain Visualization
https://gappleto97.github.io/visualizer/
What does the curve used in Bitcoin, secp256k1, look like?
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21907/what-does-the-curve-used-in-bitcoin-secp256k1-look-like/21911#21911
The mempool vs your mempool
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4o9tb1/mempool_megathread/d4askrv?context=3
Secure Hardware and Open Source
https://medium.com/@Ledger/secure-hardware-and-open-source-ecd26579d839#.ynottvtze
On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/555.pdf
Making Smart Contracts Smarter
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633.pdf
Extractable Witness Encryption and Timed-Release Encryption from Bitcoin
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/482.pdf
Smart Signatures
http://www.weboftrust.info/downloads/smart-signatures.pdf
Nextblock_Weakblock
https://gist.github.com/jl2012/2db9e434ce7beb8e13354604305f6d77
Ethereum is the OP_EVAL of cryptocurrency
https://medium.com/@chjj/ethereum-is-the-op-eval-of-cryptocurrency-d6beaa17eb50#.flplzut7h
Antminers Hacked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/aussie_writes_app_to_hijack_scores_of_pricey_antmine_bitcoin_miners/?mt=1468391891472
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4sfm8b/antminer_bitcoin_boxen_can_be_hacked_says/d58xsys
Blockchain Graveyard