Presentation:
Felix Weis - Mempool-flow based fee estimation

Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core[masked]rc3
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.16.0rc3

Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12196
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12254
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12296
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12360
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12404
(merged) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12213
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12210
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12118

[bitcoin-dev] New Bitcoin Core macOS signing key
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-February/015698.html

[bitcoin-dev] Taproot: Privacy preserving switchable scripting
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-January/015614.html

[bitcoin-dev] Graftroot: Private and efficient surrogate scripts under the taproot assumption
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-February/015700.html

[bitcoin-dev] ScriptPubkey consensus translation
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-January/015580.html

Network Stats
https://outputs.today/
https://coinmetrics.io/charts/

Lightning Network
lnd Pull Requests
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/751
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/747
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/737
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/676,

[Lightning-dev] AMP: Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/000993.html

[Lightning-dev] QuickMaths for Onions: Linear Construction of Sphinx Shared-Secrets
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/000981.html

LN Network Graphs + Statistics
http://86.24.91.84:3012/
http://lnstat.ideoflux.com:3000/dashboard/db/lightning-network?refresh=5m&orgId=1
https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

Zap Wallet Beta Release
https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-beta-release-346b5100376e

Hardening Lightning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3f4yYVCxpk

Settling Payments Fast and Private: Efficient Decentralized Routing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjroQE_tWr0

Research
Financial Crypto 18
https://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/schedule.html

Bulletproofs (new version of paper)
https://twitter.com/benediktbuenz/status/961468224230473728
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mnxerNaNkLKX (Andrew Poelstra presentation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjDKgR4dw8

When A Small Leak Sinks A Great Ship: Deanonymizing Tor Hidden Service Users Through Bitcoin Transactions Analysis
http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07501

Key Aggregation for Schnorr Signatures
https://blockstream.com/2018/01/23/musig-key-aggregation-schnorr-signatures.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTsjMz3DaLs

Future Technological Directions in Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABppufTdpA
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iNzJtJRq9-0vdILQAe9Bcj7r1a7xYVf8CSY0_oFrH9c/edit#heading=h.e1bqupm0w459

The DCS Theorem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04335

Zero knowledge, subversion resistance, and concrete attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP8xSEM9bd8

Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOeUq3oR2fk

State-of-the-art Attacks on Secure Hardware Wallets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgIPR37glPM

Misc.
Electrum 3.1 Release
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/4b4ad22e905b8596195336cde0ac50be0d737c85/RELEASE-NOTES

[bitcoin-dev] Electrum Personal Server alpha release
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-February/015707.html

The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure
https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-building-ethereum-infrastructure-87e443e47a4b

If you can’t make to the main event please join us at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM. Thanks to our sponsors Galvanize and Chaincode Labs for event space and food+refreshments.