Socratic Seminar 74

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

Discussion topics:

Bitcoin Core[masked] released
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-November/015277.html

[bitcoin-dev] Updates on Confidential Transactions efficiency
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-November/015283.html
http://web.stanford.edu/~buenz/pubs/bulletproofs.pdf
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/bulletpoints-on-bulletproofs/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7d5zbc/finally_real_privacy_for_bitcoin_transactions/dpvbocv/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7cs1zc/bulletproofs_a_radical_improvement_in_the/dpslyv8/

[bitcoin-dev] Making OP_CODESEPARATOR and FindAndDelete in non-segwit scripts non-standard
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-November/015292.html

[bitcoin-dev] Covenants through merkelized txids.
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-November/015274.html

[bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Compact Client Side Filtering for Light Clients
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-November/015273.html

Segwit2x Bugs Explained
https://bitcointechtalk.com/segwit2x-bugs-explained-8e0c286124bc

How to Protect Against Replay Attacks – Bitcoin Tech Talk
https://bitcointechtalk.com/how-to-protect-against-replay-attacks-7a00bd2fe52f

Lightning Network
Connecting Blockchains: Instant Cross-Chain Transactions On Lightning
https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2017/11/16/ln-swap.html

Release v0.1.2-alpha lightning-app
https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-app/releases/tag/v0.1.2alpha

LND Slack Tipping Bot
https://lnd-testnet-3.mably.com/

Scalable Funding of Blockchain Micropayment Networks.pdf
https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/a20a865ce40d40c8f942cf206a7cba96/Scalable_Funding_Of_Blockchain_Micropayment_Networks%20(1).pdf

MimbleWimble
grin for Bitcoiners
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bitcoiners.md

[WIP] tx now contains a kernel, step closer to supporting multiple kernel
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/277

Sinking Signatures
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mimblewimble/comments/79t8la/sinking_signatures/dpsg1y0/

Misc.
Chainalysis Study
http://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/

Smart Contracting
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/BC-2,%20Day%203_%20Smart%20Contracting.pdf

Strong Federations: Thresholds and Byzantine Security
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/BC-2,%20Day%202_%20New%20Elements%20Features.pdf

Extensions to the Arm Architecture
https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/introducing-2017s-extensions-to-the-arm-architecture#cryptographic

Interview with waxwing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZPFGFQ_5lM&t=

Electrum 3.0 Release
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/releases/tag/3.0.0

Nobody Understands Bitcoin (And That’s OK)
https://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok/

SNICKER
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/snicker/

Research
Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains
https://blockstream.com/2017/10/30/simplicity.html

Sharding PoW-based Blockchains via Proofs of Knowledge
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1067

ADSNARK: Nearly practical and privacy-preserving proofs on authenticated data.pdf
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/617.pdf

Mempool optimized fees, and the correlation between user costs, miner incentives, and block capacity
https://bc-2.jp/mempool.pdf

Optimizing fee estimation via the mempool state
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Optimizing%20fee%20estimation%20via%20the%20mempool%20state%20-%202017%20-%20kallewoof.pdf

Incentive Compatibility of Pay Per LastNShares in Bitcoin Mining Pools
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68711-7_2

Be Selfish and Avoid Dilemmas: Fork After Withholding (FAW) Attacks
https://acmccs.github.io/papers/p195-kwonA.pdf

Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Arithmetic Circuits in the Discrete Log Setting
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/263.pdf

InfoSec
The Return of Coppersmith’s Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli
https://acmccs.github.io/papers/p1631-nemecA.pdf

Parity Hack
https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15645954

Tor’s Fall Harvest: the Next Generation of Onion Services
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-fall-harvest-next-generation-onion-services#asn

TorMoil Vulnerability Leaks Real IP Address from Tor Browser Users
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tormoil-vulnerability-leaks-real-ip-address-from-tor-browser-users/

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