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Presentations:

• Ryan Shea -

Blockstack

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Discussion Topics:

Github Issues/PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9312 
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9294
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9261
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9222
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9343
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9298
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9262
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9172
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9171
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9167
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9179(merged
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9188
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8872
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9199
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9239(/merged

Segwit Activation
http://api.qbit.ninja/versionstats
https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/
https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin-stats (http://bitcoin.sipa.be)

Forcenet
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-December/013338.html

BIPs
Hardfork Warning System
https://github.com/jl2012/bips/blob/hfwarning/bip-hfwarning.mediawiki
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-December/013332.html

Buried Deployments
https://github.com/sdaftuar/bips/blob/836d2dc91e1e21a77c0b0364ec4a0a9722c02a4f/bip-buried-deployments.mediawiki

Development Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/11/17/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/12/01/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/12/08/

Network Stats
P2SH Proportions
https://twitter.com/sysmannet/status/804371899094597632

AWS/VPS vs Full Nodes
https://twitter.com/sysmannet/status/799361047077359616

UTXO Stats
http://utxo-stats.com/

Fee Availability
https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-core-dev/2016-11-10/?msg=76284251&page=4

Next-Block-Fees
https://gist.github.com/rustyrussell/25815d53f9174b248c46351e11b2e6f5

Code Coverage Report - secp256k1
https://people.xiph.org/~greg/secp256k1_coverage_2015_10_31/tt2/secp256k1/src/index.html

Tumblebit: Tumbler Mode
https://medium.com/@nicolasdorier/tumblebit-tumbler-mode-ea44e9a2a2ec#.fwd5v8t7z

Understanding TumbleBit Part1: Making the Case
https://hackernoon.com/understanding-tumblebit-part-1-making-the-case-823d786113f3#.g10qlnov3

ViaBTC Transaction Accelerator
https://twitter.com/ViaBTC/status/805382562738831361
https://ww.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5gd467/viabtcs_transaction_accelerator_test_results/

P2Pool Segwit Readiness
https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool/pull/327

In conversation with Chandler Guo [Pt2] - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAd2f4n6wx8&feature=youtu.be

Interview with Laolu “roasbeef” Osuntokun of Lightning Network
https://soundcloud.com/whalepool/interview-with-laolu-roasbeef-osuntokun-of-lightning-network

MimbleWimble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTRlbCaUyM&feature=youtu.be

Evaluation of Coin Selection Strategies
http://murch.one/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/erhardt2016coinselection.pdf

Bcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGm54LZ1T50

CCS 2016 - Amortizing Secure Computation with Penalties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGzsz_-oSss

Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering 2017
https://cyber.stanford.edu/blockchainconf

Service-Oriented Sharding with Aspen
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/12/06/aspen/

Lightning Network
Kugelblitz UI
https://github.com/cdecker/kugelblitz

Lightning Spec
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-1-8-a7720fb1b4da#.oyf3yggom
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-2-8-base-protocol-43855d19e062#.eofekb9hu
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-3-8-peer-protocol-for-channel-management-3de0996cd4c#.3nb0a2eiu
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-4-8-bitcoin-transaction-and-script-formats-246609394b0a#.57c2gqfcw
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-5-8-onion-routing-protocol-86c91e455909#.bt4dcckjx
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-6-8-onchain-handling-3c4ee4409cb8#.pw9tdotk5

Routing
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5blpeh/this_is_how_you_manipulateforce_people_into/d9pjgnh/?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5blpeh/this_is_how_you_manipulateforce_people_into/d9r9dt9/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5cwd07/what_are_the_current_avenues_for_research_on/d9zxgvu/

LN less segwit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5eqm2b/can_ln_work_without_segwit/daemwec/?context=3

Community Participation in LN Spec
https://ww.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5gcnpa/the_bitcoin_lightning_spec_part_18/darcn7i/

Generating Partial Address Collisions
https://ww.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34hjph/generating_partial_address_collisions_using_the/

Taint analysis on bitcoin stolen from Kraken on 7/20
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/559hzp/taint_analysis_on_bitcoin_stolen_from_kraken_on/

On Segwit (harda)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5eamb1/segregated_witness_explained_with_thanks_to_luke/dabsilx/

Great List of Advanced Bitcoin Topics (kanzure)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dt6rt/looking_for_bitcoin_201_explanations/da76j0m/

On Bitcoin Core “Bugs” Found by BU Devs (Lightsword + nullc)
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5dk11h/bu_lead_developer_andrew_stone_a_short_tour_of/da5dr36/
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5dk11h/bu_lead_developer_andrew_stone_a_short_tour_of/da5dj4t/

On Hard and Soft forks in Bitcoin’s History (luke-jr)
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5f6gyc/satoshi_on_the_lightning_network_remember_the/dairxg5/

Miner Centralization to Avoid Orphan Risk (nullc)
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5eil82/im_not_aware_of_a_problem_gregory_maxwell/dadetja/

BIP9 Signaling vs. Voting (nullc)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dlfyt/segwit_signalling_begins_now/da6rst5/

On BU Emergent Consenus (Taek42)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5gm2bp/emergent_consensus_simulationsandrew_stone/datvthv/

Bitcoin Quarterly Update Call - Needham & Co.
Transcript
https://www.docdroid.net/2qjyYlp/transcript-bitcoin-quarterly-update-call-needham-co-november-2016.pdf.html#page=2

Ethereum Netsplit
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/11/25/security-alert-11242016-consensus-bug-geth-v1-4-19-v1-5-2/
https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/801884605083222017

zk-SNARKs in a Nutshell
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/05/zksnarks-in-a-nutshell/

Zcash Trusted Setup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981631

Zcash Security Announcement
https://z.cash/blog/security-announcement-2016-11-22.html?page=0

ADSNARK: Nearly Practical and Privacy-Preserving Proofs on Authenticated Data
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/snarks/ADSNARK:%20Nearly%20practical%20and%20privacy-preserving%20proofs%20on%20authenticated%20data.pdf

Breaking Down Mirai: An IoT DDoS Botnet Analysis
https://www.incapsula.com/blog/malware-analysis-mirai-ddos-botnet.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_emp&utm_campaign=2016_Q4_miraiddos

Managing Security Tradeoffs (Signal)
http://dephekt.net/2016/11/10/managing-security-trade-offs-why-i-still-recommend-signal.html

OTRv4 Draft Spec
https://github.com/twstrike/otrv4

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