Socratic Seminar 72

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Presentation: Russ Yanofsky - Process Separation in Bitcoin Core

Discussion Topics :

Bitcoin Core[masked] Released
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-September/015003.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRoEeqYtJA
https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-1-21085f4467fc
https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-2-41b6d0493136
https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-3-50c42125625e
https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-4-7c01c553783e
https://bitcointechtalk.com/whats-new-in-bitcoin-core-v0-15-part-5-6a9cfa85821f

Core Dev Yearly Meeting Transcripts
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/

[bitcoin-dev] BIP114 Merklized Script update and 5 BIPs for new script functions
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg06022.html

[bitcoin-dev] Merkle branch verification & tail-call semantics for generalized MAST
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg05991.html

Network Stats
btc.com

Mempool Stats
https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/904397664522977281
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#30d
https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/fee-estimation?orgId=1

Segwit Stats
segwit.party/charts
https://imgur.com/a/15ipE
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000e6bb2ac3adffc4ea06304aaf9b7e89a85b2fecc2d68184
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6zwbye/transactions_are_getting_cheaper_segwit_now_on/dmyw09w/
https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/900538235956244480

Breaking Bitcoin
https://breaking-bitcoin.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCP7NPTxVrt01-FlSiWYSzQ

Vulnerability Disclosure
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg06036.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg06031.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6z827o/chris_jeffrey_jj_discloses_bitcoin_attack_vector/dmtrf34/

Lightning Network
Testnet LN Node Graph
https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/905478797612515330

lnd v0.3-alpha
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.3-alpha

Lightning Integration Tests
https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/1ab19ffde3f4e0329c86c2b3513b74538a47282711b908f7e7d21cd83073193b.html

Towards a Unified Lightning Network
https://medium.com/@lightning_network/towards-a-unified-lightning-network-8c12cb35b83a

Lightning Payments on Testnet for Bitrefill
https://blog.bitrefill.com/lightning-payments-on-testnet-for-bitrefill-b3edac845654

Ride the Lightning: How to use the Lightning Network on the Bitcoin Mainnet
https://interfect.github.io/#!/posts/009-Ride-the-Lightning.md

Minecraft Bitcoin Lightning Network Payment Integration - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7qgYkd7Qsc

Starblocks | Spend bitcoin with LN on Testnet
https://starblocks.acinq.co/#/

Revive: Rebalancing Off-Blockchain Payment Networks
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/823.pdf

MimbleWimble: TX broadcasting & privacy issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mimblewimble/comments/6x7m1k/tx_broadcasting_privacy_issues/

Misc.
Bitcoin Cash: [Bitcoin-ml] Difficulty adjustment
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-ml/2017-August/000129.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6wepge/zhuo_er_jiang_head_of_btctop_and_the_recent/

Release for segwit (joinmarket-cs codebase)
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases
https://www.reddit.com/r/joinmarket/comments/6vy3ut/release_for_segwit_joinmarketcs_codebase/

Saving up to 80% on Bitcoin transaction fees by batching payments
https://bitcointechtalk.com/saving-up-to-80-on-bitcoin-transaction-fees-by-batching-payments-4147ab7009fb

Research
Merged Mining: Curse or Cure?
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/791.pdf

BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02489.pdf

Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
http://www.columbia.edu/~jl4130/BTC.pdf

Mt. Gox Stolen Coins
https://gist.github.com/patio11/598ec35c6c1675c97d93383f41b39b0b

How to trace ransomware payments end-to-end
https://www.elie.net/blog/security/how-to-trace-ransomware-payments-end-to-end

Alt. Coins
Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-iota-9a6a9ddc4367

Exploring Simpler Ethereum Multisig Contracts
https://medium.com/@ChrisLundkvist/exploring-simpler-ethereum-multisig-contracts-b71020c19037

On BitGo’s Ethereum Multisig Wallet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWhox7OJFW0

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