Socratic Seminar 78

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

Discussion topics:

Bitcoin Core[masked] Final Release
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg06847.html

Making Bitcoin Fast: Introduction
https://eklitzke.org/making-bitcoin-fast-introduction

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

AsicBoost DPL
https://www.asicboost.com/blog/

A candidate heuristic for covert ASICBoost detection on-chain
https://pdaian.com/blog/a-candidate-heuristic-for-covert-asicboost-detection-on-chain/

DragonMint Bitcoin miner implements “version-rolling” AsicBoost
https://halongmining.com/blog/2018/03/07/dragonmint-btc-miner-uses-version-rolling-asicboost/

UTXO Set Consolidation
https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/968540663342968832

Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
http://r6.ca/blog/20180225T160548Z.html

rust-bitcoin (rust-lightning, rust-bitcoin-spv, and others)
https://github.com/rust-bitcoin

Bitcoin Academic Research
A New Approach to Deanonymization of Unreachable Bitcoin Nodes
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/243

Exploiting transaction accumulation and double spends for topology inference in bitcoin
https://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/bitcoin18-final10.pdf

Improving Bitcoin’s Resilience to Churn
http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06559v1

WIP: Channel range queries
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/pull/392

lnd 0.4.0 Beta Released
http://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/03/15/lnd-beta.html

Eclair Release
https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/976145846738833409

Adding “Data loss protection” to eclair
https://medium.com/@ACINQ/adding-data-loss-protection-to-eclair-598c62494096

Lightning Network Explorer
https://graph.lndexplorer.com/

Robtex LN
https://www.robtex.com/lightning/

Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine
https://1ml.com/#search

Privacy in Lightning FAQ
https://snyke.net/post/privacy-in-lightning/

Post Schnorr Lightning Transactions
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/001031.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-March/001075.html

Lightning Network and Discreet Log Contracts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4slzFdykpc

MimbleWimble
Dandelion relay and aggregation for transactions
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/issues/706

Switch Commits / Bulletproofs - Status
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/issues/734

Scriptless Scripts
https://medium.com/@Bitcom21/crypto-innovation-spotlight-2-scriptless-scripts-306c4eb6b3a8

Privacy on the Blockchain with MimbleWimble
https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/ltb-356-privacy-on-the

Misc.

Bitcoin Addresses on OFAC List?

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Pages/faq_compliance.aspx#vc_faqs

Noded[masked] with Murch
https://soundcloud.com/noded-bitcoin-podcast/noded-0100-with-murch

Updates to BlockSci
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/03/15/whats-new-with-blocksci-princetons-blockchain-analysis-tool/

bitcoinFeeStatistics
https://github.com/fresheneesz/bitcoinFeeStatistics

WhatTheFee.io - bitcoin feerate estimation
https://whatthefee.io/

Covert ECDH over secp256k1
https://gist.github.com/sipa/29118d3fcfac69f9930d57433316c039

Bitcoin Unlimited Node Count Drops
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/965261773677912065

Privacy
From Zero Knowledge Proofs to Bulletproofs Paper
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/from-zero-knowledge-proofs-to-bulletproofs-paper/

Monero RCT Report
https://github.com/kurtmagnus/Monero-RCT-report/

Snarks, Starks And BulletProofs Andrew Polestra, Pieter Wuille, Benedikt Bunz by The Crypto Show
https://soundcloud.com/heryptohow/snarks-starks-and-bulletproofs-andrew-polestra-pieter-wuille-benedikt-bunz

Bobwallet - Trustless Bitcoin Privacy Wallet
https://github.com/BobWallet/BobWallet

Blockstream - Bulletproofs: Faster Rangeproofs and Much More
https://blockstream.com/2018/02/21/bulletproofs-faster-rangeproofs-and-much-more.html

musig implementation
https://github.com/tnakagawa/musig

InfoSec
SGX Spectre
http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/%7Ezhang.834/papers/SgxPectre.pdf

Ledger
https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security-model/
https://www.ledger.fr/2018/03/20/firmware-1-4-deep-dive-security-fixes/

Trezor
https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-one-firmware-update-1-6-1-eecd0534ab95

A first look at browser-based Cryptojacking
http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02887

Stake-Bleeding Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/248

“Major key alert!” Anomalous keys in Tor relays
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/83.pdf

IOTA Signatures, Private Keys and Address Reuse?
http://blog.lekkertech.net/blog/2018/03/07/iota-signatures/

iota-transaction-spammer-webapp/replay attack.md
https://github.com/joseph14/iota-transaction-spammer-webapp/blob/master/replay%20attack.md

How your ethereum can be stolen through DNS rebinding –
https://ret2got.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/how-your-ethereum-can-be-stolen-using-dns-rebinding/

Eclipse attacks on Ethereum
http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/projects/eclipseEth

Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06038