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 (they’re doing a residency program!) for event space and food and refreshments.

Discussion Topics:

Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11457
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11497
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11383
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11398
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11403
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11458
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11466
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11457
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11449
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11456 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11377
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11167
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11113 (/merged)

[masked]
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11487
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11490
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11446

2x
https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/pull/134
https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/a3c41256984bf11d95a560ae89c0fcbadfbe73dc
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/745jlm/segwit2x_merges_in_optin_transaction_replay/

Network stats
http://btc.com
segwit.party/charts
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#30d
https://esotericnonsense.com/

What is a Bitcoin Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST)?
https://bitcointechtalk.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-merklized-abstract-syntax-tree-mast-33fdf2da5e2f

Making MAST Meaningful; Bitcoin Atomic Swaps Become Private
https://medium.com/@BrianDeery/making-mast-meaningful-bitcoin-atomic-swaps-become-private-ff003f7c2b7a

Flipping the scriptless script on Schnorr
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/flipping-the-scriptless-script-on-schnorr/

Joinmarket-clientserver 0.3.1
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/blob/master/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.3.1.md

bitcoind-ncurses
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/73n6ri/bitcoindncurses_a_terminal_frontend_for_bitcoind/dnrjdba/

Lightning Network
Lightning Desktop App, Now Available for Testing
http://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2017/10/12/test-blitz.html

HTLC Web Wallet
https://htlc.me/

Y’alls: Read and write articles, with Lightning Network micropayments.
https://yalls.org/

Node Topology
https://imgur.com/a/37hA2

Research
Redesigning Bitcoin’s Fee Market
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08881
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/72qi2r/redesigning_bitcoins_fee_market_a_new_paper_by/dnkjslw/?context=3

Proofs-of-proofs-of-work
https://github.com/dionyziz/popow

InfoSec
KRACK
https://www.krackattacks.com/
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-through-the-kracks/amp/

Infineon weak on-chip key generation
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/promopages/rsa-update/
https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-01/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypto-failure-cripples-millions-of-high-security-keys-750k-estonian-ids/

EtherDelta Hack
https://hackernoon.com/how-one-hacker-stole-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-cryptocurrency-with-a-classic-code-injection-a3aba5d2bff0

Ethereum Hard Fork
https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/09/14/geth-1-7-megara/
https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.7.2

Misc.
2x Countdown
https://bashco.github.io/2x_Countdown/

Butcoin Gold
https://bitcointechtalk.com/bitcoin-gold-what-you-need-to-know-8b3e645be409

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