If you can’t make it to the main event please join us at Westville Hudson (http://westvillenyc.com/specials-market/hudson/) around 9:30PM. Thanks to our sponsors Galvanize (https://www.galvanize.com/new-york) for event space and Chaincode Labs (http://chaincode.com) for food and refreshments.
Discussion Topics:
Issues/PRs
https://gist.github.com/sipa/125cfa1615946d0c3f3eec2ad7f250a2
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11892
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11770
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11802
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11904
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10603
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10637
(merged) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10275
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11740 (/merged)
[bitcoin-dev] Updates on Confidential Transactions efficiency
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-December/015346.html
Advances in Block Propagation Protocols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIuuKCm53o&feature=youtu.be
Simplicity and Michelson
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/simplicity-and-michelson.html
CoreDev Event in NYC
https://coredev.tech/
Lightning Network
Cross-Implementation Lightning Payment on Bitcoin’s Mainnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73Gz3Tvx3k
https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0-compatibility-achieved-f9d22b7b19c4
https://blockstream.com/2017/12/06/lightning-spec-electrifies-bitcoin-with-release-candidate.html
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, Simply Explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrr_zPmEiME
Accept Lightning Payments at your Web Store
https://twitter.com/joaodealmeida94/status/936704579244347393/video/1
MimbleWimble
Grin Fundraise
http://grin-tech.org/funding.html
Podcast on Mimblewimble with Andrew Poelstra
https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00372.html
Privacy/Info Sec
On the linkability of Zcash Transactions
http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactions/
Bitcoin Gold Site Hacked
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/66161/hacking/bitcoin-gold-security-breach.html
Coin Control Is Must Learn If You Care About Your Privacy In Bitcoin
https://medium.com/@nopara73/coin-control-is-must-learn-if-you-care-about-your-privacy-in-bitcoin-33b9a5f224a2
JoinMarket vs ZeroLink
https://medium.com/@nopara73/joinmarket-vs-zerolink-972f0ce5eb3c
ZeroLink: Massive Scale CoinJoin Is About To Be Deployed
https://medium.com/@nopara73/zerolink-massive-scale-coinjoin-is-about-to-be-deployed-participate-in-the-final-test-and-earn-6225939d15fb
Misc.
[bitcoin-dev] Scalable Semi-Trustless Asset Transfer via Single-Use-Seals and Proof-of-Publication
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-December/015350.html
Bitcoin Script Debugger
https://github.com/kallewoof/btcdeb
Research
Obscuro: A Bitcoin Mixer using Trusted Execution Environments
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/974
Strain: A Secure Auction for Blockchains
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1044
Analysis of the Bitcoin UTXO set
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1095
A formal model of Bitcoin transactions
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1124
Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/963
Instantaneous Decentralized Poker
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/875
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