If you can’t make it to the main event please join us for a Segwit Activation Party at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM.

Thanks to Chaincode Labs for food and our location sponsor Galvanize:

Discussion topics: 

Bitcoin Core[masked]rc2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.15.0rc2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.15.0rc2/doc/release-notes.md

Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10526
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11031
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10994
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10996
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11049
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10984
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10982

[bitcoin-dev] Fwd: [Lightning-dev] Lightning in the setting of blockchain hardforks
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-August/014835.html

[bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) format
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-August/014838.html

Invalid 1Hash Blocks
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2041607.msg20330478#msg[masked]
https://pastebin.com/raw/t0qiBaEW

Segwit Activation
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5ar38a/can_someone_explain_segwit_transaction_composition/d9jga6y/
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qfry8/psa_bitcoin_used_to_have_safe_zeroconfirmation/dkx8lxp/

UAHF/Bitcoin Cash
https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/blob/master/doc/abc/uahf-technical-spec.md
https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/blob/master/doc/abc/replay-protected-sighash.md

Statistics
https://cash.coin.dance/
http://fork.lol/
https://www.btcforkmonitor.info/
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/blocks
btc.com

Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Adjustment Issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6v1knn/bitmain_has_apparently_moved_170ph_into_bch_may/dlx3pu6/?context=3

Lightning Network
Lightning Developer Docs
http://dev.lightning.community/

Announcing Eclair Wallet
https://medium.com/@ACINQ/announcing-eclair-wallet-a8d8c136fc7e

Announcing Zap: A Lightning Network Wallet
https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-a-lightning-network-wallet-47622acd89fb

Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pmorenos/public/paychannels.pdf

Discreet Log Contracts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-rA5dkTHI

Info Sec
A Modified Version of a Common Multisig Had A Vulnerability
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6obofq/a_modified_version_of_a_common_multisig_had_a/?st=j5c3rbkk&sh=464816f8

Augur REP Token Critical Vulnerability Disclosure
https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/augur-rep-token-critical-vulnerability-disclosure-3d8bdffd79d2

Fixing physical memory access issue in TREZOR – TREZOR Blog
https://blog.trezor.io/fixing-physical-memory-access-issue-in-trezor-2b9b46bb4522

Solidity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008

Parity Multisig Hack
https://press.swarm.city/parity-multisig-wallet-exploit-hits-swarm-city-funds-statement-by-the-swarm-city-core-team-d1f3929b4e4e
https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/on-the-parity-wallet-multisig-hack-405a8c12e8f7

Misc. Research
Confidential Transactions from Basic Principles
https://cryptoservices.github.io/cryptography/2017/07/21/Sigs.html

Could SPV Support a Billion Bitcoin Users? Sizing up a Scaling Claim
https://www.coindesk.com/spv-support-billion-bitcoin-users-sizing-scaling-claim/

Z-Channel: Scalable and Efficient Scheme in Zerocash
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/684

The price of anonymity: empirical evidence from a market for Bitcoin anonymization - 2017.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/doi/10.1093/cybsec/tyx007/4057584/The-price-of-anonymity-empirical-evidence-from-a

Introducing ZeroLink — The Bitcoin Fungibility Framework
https://medium.com/@nopara73/introducing-zerolink-the-bitcoin-fungibility-framework-dc5338086198

On the Necessity ofa Prescribed Block Validity Consensus:Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/686.pdf

Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts
https://www.plasma.io/plasma.pdf

How segwit changes TumbleBit
https://medium.com/@nicolasdorier/how-segwit-change-tumblebit-93de66714070

Misc. Core History
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6p076l/segwit_only_allows_170_of_current_transactions/dkmugw5/
https://medium.com/@jfnewbery/what-did-bitcoin-core-contributors-ever-do-for-us-39fc2fedb5ef

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