Socratic Seminar 70

If you can’t make it to the main event please join us at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM. Thanks to our sponsors Galvanize and Chaincode Labs for event space and food!

Discussion topics:

Bitcoin Core[masked] Released
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-June/014597.html

Stats
http://bc.daniel.net.nz/
btc.com

Bitcoin Fibre Public Network Announcement
http://bitcoinfibre.org/public-network.html

Ignore the Drama
https://twitter.com/jfnewbery/status/883001356168167425

UASF/2x
The Road to Segwit Activation — UASF, Segwit2x and Segwit Signalling Explained
https://medium.com/@wintercooled/the-road-to-segwit-activation-uasf-segwit2x-and-segwit-signalling-explained-2ff00488b7cb
https://medium.com/@wintercooled/explaining-segwit2x-and-bip-148-uasf-compatibility-39ca7e3296ed

Stats Simulation: BIP 148 Minority Reorgs
https://blog.bitcoinhk.org/stats-simulation-bip148-minority-reorgs-1ecd11f41bc7

nullc on segwit2x
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6h612o/can_someone_explain_to_me_why_core_wont_endorse/divtc93/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hpvtg/when_vcs_ceos_and_bottom_shelf_developers_trying/dj09a6w/

On Spy Mining
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2008333.msg19999372#msg[masked]

Broadband Speeds 2 Years Later
https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=602

Christian Decker Finding the Block Size “Sweet Spot”
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/christian-decker-network-improvements-tradeoffs-and-finding-block-size-sweet-spot/

[WIP] Aggregate signature module implementation
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/461

Network Events
Coinbase Fee Bug
https://twitter.com/hrdng/status/886193347563487232
https://twitter.com/hrdng/status/886744491566223361

Fee Spam Attack
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/moments/885827802775396352

Bitcoin ABC Node Crash
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6n7hju/are_bitcoin_abc_nodes_under_attack/

Lightning Network
Mobile Lightning wallet demo -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFfUfyL2xE

Lightning Apps and the Emerging Developer Ecosystem on LND
http://lightning.community/software/lnd/lightning/2017/07/05/emerging-lightning-developer-ecosystem/

Privacy
Under the hood: NTumbleBit
https://github.com/NTumbleBit/NTumbleBit/wiki/Under-the-Hood

Privacy and Schnorr Signatures
https://medium.com/@nopara73/privacy-and-schnorr-signatures-e2175d27f022

Neutrino - The Privacy Preserving Bitcoin Light Client
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FWKc8lM4Ek

Hardware Wallets and Joinmarket
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/issues/537#issuecomment[masked]

Zero Knowledge Contingent Service Payments (ZKCSP) over Bitcoin
https://github.com/matteocam/zkcsp-over-bitcoin

ZKP In Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-xTQ0_2nA

Ethereum
Issues with Solidity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212

Frontrunning Bancor
http://www.swende.se/blog/Frontrunning.html

Calculating Coasts in Ethereum Smart Contracts
https://hackernoon.com/ether-purchase-power-df40a38c5a2f

How to attack the Ethereum network using a malicious ICO
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6iw2c8/how_to_attack_the_ethereum_network_using_a/

Analyzing the ERC20 Short Address Attack
https://ericrafaloff.com/analyzing-the-erc20-short-address-attack/

Bancor is Flawed
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/06/19/bancor-is-flawed/

Misc.
Post’s Theorem and Blockchain Languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGE6jrVmt_I
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4pdx6k/comparison_between_bitcoin_and_ethereums/d4lerhw/

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Tutorial
https://www.johannes-bauer.com/compsci/ecc/

Bitcoin Resources
https://sites.google.com/site/bitcoinsig/resources

Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second
http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html

HashCash
http://hashcash.com/

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