Please RSVP on the Miami International Bitcoin Meetup page. Please join us for the warm weather version of our 64th Socratic Seminar at the Miami Bitcoin Hackathon.
Discussion topics:

0.13.2 Release
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/01/03/release-0.13.2/
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.13.2

Github Issues/PRs

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9377 (open)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9400
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9402
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9443
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9447
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9481
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9483
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9375  (/open)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/9466
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/9409
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9262 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8610
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8776
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9138
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9465
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9319
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9312 (/merged)

Dev Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/12/15/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/12/22/

Network Stats
https://btc.com/stats

Node Count
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5le1y6/45_of_all_nodes_support_segwit_so_far_013101399/dbvhsb4/
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The bitcoinqueue is back
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5m8vqg/the_queue_is_back/dc1ouaz/

Fee Visualizer
https://anduck.net/bitcoin/fees/

View tx position in mempool queue
http://mempool.us.to/tx.html

FIBRE .5b3
https://github.com/bitcoinfibre/bitcoinfibre/releases/tag/v0.13.2rc1-fibre0.5b3

TumbleBit
https://medium.com/@nopara73/understanding-tumblebit-part-2-the-endgame-instant-anonymous-scaleable-payment-system-on-top-479e7eb9ca24#.yimbzql3t
https://hackernoon.com/understanding-tumblebit-part-3-not-even-the-tumbler-can-breach-your-privacy-how-8d49d89e3a0d#.6srcjfqad
https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/809740914977452033

Bitcoin Transaction that takes 5 hours to verify
https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/a-bitcoin-transaction-that-takes-5-hours-to-verify/

Lightning Network
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/the-bitcoin-lightning-spec-part-7-8-p2p-node-and-channel-discovery-bde2aa2b48f6#.y3tsc243n
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/bitcoin-lightning-things-to-know-e5ea8d84369f#.b4gx419cm

Schnorr Sigs + Lightning
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5k88lx/have_a_question_regarding_the_combination_of/dc06umf/

Some magic?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1729534.0

Segwit, FlexTrans
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5ijtzv/flextransvssegwit_by_tom_zander_of_bitcoin_classic/db8sg8g/?st=iws8mhu2&sh=8d0c490e

Scaling Bitcoin with Secure Hardware
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/12/22/scaling-bitcoin-with-secure-hardware/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5jqxxc/scaling_bitcoin_with_secure_hardware/dbitlr7/

Opendime v2
http://blog.opendime.com/announcing-opendime-v2/

MimbleWimble Chainsync
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5le1y6/45_of_all_nodes_support_segwit_so_far_013101399/dbvhsb4/

A problem with Monero’s RingCT
https://nickler.ninja/blog/2016/12/17/a-problem-with-ringct/

Merkleset
https://github.com/bramcohen/MerkleSet

SPECTRE
https://medium.com/@avivzohar/the-spectre-protocol-7dbbebb707b5#.8wfmlhtmy
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yoni_sompo/pubs/16/SPECTRE_complete.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5jbsny/spectre_a_fast_and_scalable_distributed_ledger/dbfeg66/

A Bayesian Approach to Identify Bitcoin Users
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.06747v3.pdf

Zero-Collateral Lotteries in Bitcoin and Ethereum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05390v1

Measuring the ecosystem to explore the current state of activities and development - research study by the CCAF is looking for participants
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5jknhs/measuring_the_ecosystem_to_explore_the_current/

The Real Name Fallacy
https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/ 

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