If you can’t make it to the main event please join us at the Blockstream and Chaincode Labs party: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dragon-energy-night-tickets-45923077160

Presentations:
- Conner Fromknecht: AMP, splicing, watchtowers
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/000993.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2017-May/000696.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-April/001196.html

- John Newbery - current events in Bitcoin Core (see PRs below)

Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12254
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10740
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12979
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11639
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13112
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13120
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10973
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12560
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13090
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13200
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13191
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13134

[bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal - Dandelion: Privacy Preserving Transaction Propagation
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/015956.html

[bitcoin-dev] Per-block non-interactive Schnorr signature aggregation
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-May/014272.html

[bitcoin-dev] MAST/Schnorr related soft-forks
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/015951.html

Lightning Network
lnd PRs
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1125
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1159
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1160
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1181
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1205
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1215
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1228
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1203

Lightning User Experience: A Day in the Life of Carol
https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/02/lightning-ux.html

[Lightning-dev] Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-April/001221.html
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Scriptless%20scripts%20with%20ECDSA%20-%[masked].pdf

sighash_noinput
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-April/015908.html
https://blockstream.com/2018/04/30/eltoo-next-lightning.html

MimbleWimble
grin PRs
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/1023

Research
An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.03180

Burning Zerocoins for Fun and for Profit
https://www.chaac.tf.fau.de/files/2018/04/attack-cryptocur.pdf

Monero Ring Attack: Recreating Zero Mixin Transaction Effect
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/348

A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/087

Aggregation of Gamma-Signatures and Applications to Bitcoin
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/414

Okamoto Beats Schnorr: On the Provable Security of Multi-Signatures
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/417

InfoSec.
Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html

Electron nodeIntegration Bypass
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/CVE-2018-1000136—Electron-nodeIntegration-Bypass/

myetherwallet.com
https://medium.com/@goldbe/the-myetherwallet-com-hijack-and-why-its-risky-to-hold-cryptocurrency-in-a-webapp-261131fad278

BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/

Misc.
Bitcoin ACKs
https://bitcoinacks.com/

New Ethereum Miner Could be a Game Changer
https://blog.bitmex.com/nextstageinmining/

The State of Cryptocurrency Mining
https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b