Socratic Seminar 62

If you can’t make it to the main event please join us at Live Bait on 23rd and Madison around 9:30PM

Presentations:

• Pierre Ciric, an expert in Article 78, will briefly explain why the department of financial services acted arbitrarily and inappropriately by using Bitcoin companies as “Guinea Pigs” when it promulgated its virtual currency regulation. You can find all the documents related to the lawsuit here.

Discussion Topics:

0.13.1 Released
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-October/013265.html

Segwit
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-October/013226.html
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/10/27/release-0.13.1/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_wallet_dev/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/10/28/segwit-costs/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-segregated-witness-is-about-to-fix-hardware-wallets-1478110057
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/59ulc6/segregated_witness_costs_and_risks/d9c9q10/?context=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5afqgt/greg_maxwell_keeps_saying_segwit2mb/d9h6r5z/
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/57zjnk/the_blockstreamsegwitln_fork_will_be_worth_less/d8xe7e3?context=3 (scroll down)

Alert System Retirement
https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2016-11-01-alert-retirement

IRC Meeting Summaries
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/10/13/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/10/20/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/10/27/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/11/03/

MAST
https://github.com/jl2012/bips/blob/6ad482ebd7df25ae8ee13bc8611c61a123be54e4/bip-0114.mediawiki
http://pastebin.com/4V7VZUs5
http://n.bitcoin.ninja/mast
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Merklized%20abstract%20syntax%20trees.pdf

[bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus completion plan document (with pictures)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-October/013204.html

Network Stats
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https://btc.com/stats

Switching from Relay Network to FIBRE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.msg16605935#msg[masked]

Scaling Bitcoin 2016 Presentations
https://scalingbitcoin.org/event/milan2016#remote-participation

Scaling Bitcoin Roundup
http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2016/10/14/scaling-roundup/

Blog Posts
A Future Led by Bitcoin Unlimited is a Centralized Future
https://blog.sia.tech/2016/10/24/a-future-led-by-bitcoin-unlimited-is-a-centralized-future/#nodebb/comments

A very valuable vulnerability
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-10-28-A-very-valuable-vulnerability.html

Bcoin: A “Menace to the Network” or an Enrichment of the Bitcoin Ecosystem?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bcoin-a-menace-to-the-network-or-an-enrichment-of-the-bitcoin-ecosystem-1476909115

Bitmain to Set High Standards with Bitcoin Mining Data Center in Xinjiang
https://blog.bitmain.com/en/bitmain-to-set-high-standards-with-state-of-the-art-xinjiang-data-center/

Economic Policy: Fees and Mining Reward
https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/wiki/fees-mining

DNS Attack Against Blockchain.info
https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/10/13/security-update-yesterdays-dns-attack/

Why is Bitcoin Core using LevelDB instead of Redis or SQLite?
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/48959/why-is-bitcoin-core-using-leveldb-instead-of-redis-or-sqlite

Why your business should use a full node to accept bitcoin
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/57xy6d/why_your_business_should_use_a_full_node_to/

Sidechains
Covenants in Elements Alpha
https://blockstream.com/2016/11/02/covenants-in-elements-alpha.html

The Elements Project - A Community of Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=D4wxIDhrozM

Steal Sidechain Coins
http://popeller.io/index.php/2016/10/24/steal-sidechained-coins/

Drivechains vs Sidechains
https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/drivechains-vs-sidechains/

Lightning Network
After Scaling Bitcoin, a Lightning Winter Release Is Now Within Reach
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/after-scaling-bitcoin-a-lightning-winter-release-is-now-within-reach-1476814566

LN Desktop App Screenshot
https://imgur.com/a/ssIEe

[Lightning-dev] Blockstream Successfully Tests End-to-End Lightning Micropayment Transaction
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-October/000627.html

[Lightning-dev] c-lightning 0.5: Bitcoin Savings & Trust Daily Interest
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-October/000635.html

Lightning Network Meeting on Specifications
https://medium.com/@lightningnetwork/lightning-network-meeting-on-interoperability-and-specifications-ea49e47696a4#.n4kcxp9ht

Misc. Repos
Bitcoin Simulator
https://arthurgervais.github.io/Bitcoin-Simulator/

Python FFI bindings for secp256k1
https://github.com/ludbb/secp256k1-py

JoinMarket 0.2.2 Release
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/blob/master/doc/release-notes-0.2.2.md

Minimal implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol
https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin
https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/issues/10
https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimble.pdf

TumbleBit
https://medium.com/@ffwang2/tumblebit-an-untrusted-bitcoin-compatible-anonymous-payment-hub-f0e322a4dce1#.dg3rr5ry4
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/tumblebit-for-the-tumble-curious/

Research Papers
On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward
http://randomwalker.info/publications/mining_CCS.pdf
Bitcoin is unstable without the block size limit
https://medium.com/@bergealex4/bitcoin-is-unstable-without-the-block-size-size-limit-70db07070a54#.2p8gmnl2z
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/58x26m/bitcoin_is_unstable_without_the_block_reward/d93y1xh/

Threshold-optimal DSA/ECDSA signatures and an application to Bitcoin wallet security
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/013.pdf

Towards Fairness of Cryptocurrency Payments
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07256

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

Poster: Bitcoin Meets Collective Signing
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/220211/files/16-poster_abstract.pdf

Rebooting Web of Trust 2016 Papers
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/tree/master/topics-and-advance-readings

Coin Selection
https://github.com/Xekyo/CoinSelectionSimulator
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dzugGnAw2nBNL_BwpFR44jci8rO3RkkF5M9OcP2ESN0/pubhtml

Constant-deposit multiparty lotteries on Bitcoin
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/955

On Trees, Chains and Fast Transactions in the Blockchain
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/545

Decentralized Anonymous Micropayments
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1033.pdf

Ethereum
A survey of attacks on Ethereum smart contracts
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1007.pdf

Ongoing Ethereum Attacks
https://www.bokconsulting.com.au/blog/the-ongoing-ethereum-attacks/

Hashrate
http://www.coinwarz.com/network-hashrate-charts/ethereum-network-hashrate-chart

Security Alert - Solidity - Variables can be overwritten in storage
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/11/01/security-alert-solidity-variables-can-overwritten-storage/

Hard Fork
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/57apz4/hard_fork_consensus_has_been_reached/d8qn7y9/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/579mzg/hark_fork_on_monday_trumour_or_rumour/d8q4hoq
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/58i8e0/update_on_hf_2_and_client_optimizations/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/59vhws/update_on_imminent_hard_fork_10282016/

Zcash
MimbleWimble vs. Zcash
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mimblewimble/comments/59qulw/mimblewimble_vs_zcash/d9fv14v/

Z-Address Transactions not confirming
https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/1705

Misc.
Signal
https://whispersystems.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf

PayPal 2FA Bypass
https://henryhoggard.co.uk/blog/Paypal-2FA-Bypass

friends
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/58y09m/it_is_time_for_certain_people_to_unite_stand_up/d94k7ut/

What have the Core devs ever done for us
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bx44a/what_have_the_core_bitcoin_devs_ever_done_for_us/

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