If you can’t make it to the main event please join us for food and merriment at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM. Thanks to our friends Chaincode Labs and Paxos for food and refreshments.
Presentation:
Pierre Rochard - BitcoinACKs.com
Matt Corallo - BetterHash
https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/bips/blob/master/bip-XXXX.mediawiki
Discussion Topics
Bitcoin Core v0.16.1 rc2 released
http://dg0.dtrt.org/en/releases/0.16.1/
btcd: catch up upstream to roasbeef’s fork
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcwallet/pull/503
=Pull Requests=
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13243
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12196
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12136
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13111
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11082
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13151
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13298
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13191
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12404
Bitcoin Core Weekly Meeting
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2018/05/10/
=Mailing List=
UHS
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/015967.html
TXO bitfield size graphs
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/016017.html
Merkle tree depth
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-June/016091.html
=BIPs=
V2 ADDR message
https://gist.github.com/laanwj/4fe8470881d7b9499eedc48dc9ef1ad1
Bech32 encoded keys
https://gist.github.com/jonasschnelli/68a2a5a5a5b796dc9992f432e794d719
SIGHASH_NOINPUT
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0118.mediawiki
SIGHASH2 for version 1 witness programme
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/016047.html
=Stats=
https://dsn.tm.kit.edu/bitcoin/
https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit
https://btc.com/stats/diff
https://doublespend.cash
=Research=
BeatCoin: Leaking Private Keys from Air-Gapped Cryptocurrency Wallets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08714v1
Compact Multi-Signatures for Smaller Blockchains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/483.pdf
Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.11060.pdf
Multi-Hop Locks for Secure, Privacy-Preserving and Interoperable Payment-Channel Networks
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/472
PISA: Arbitration Outsourcing for State Channels
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.McCorry/pisa.pdf
Simple Schnorr Multi-Signatures with Applications to Bitcoin (revision)
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/068.pdf
Practical Constant-Size Ring Signature
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11390-018-1838-z
Another coin bites the dust: An analysis of dust in UTXO based cryptocurrencies
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/513
=Blogs and articles=
Analysis of batching in Bitcoin
https://coinmetrics.io/batching/
The Ethereum-blockchain size has exceeded 1TB, and yes, it’s an issue
https://hackernoon.com/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-has-exceeded-1tb-and-yes-its-an-issue-2b650b5f4f62
The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-hashcash-or-how-adam-back-designed-bitcoins-motor-block/
=Lightning Network=
Pull Requests
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1364
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1262
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1274
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1106
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1213
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1159
Watchtower Update
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8n9zg5/lightning_watchtower_projects_and_info/dzulpu2/
Routing
https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/30/routing.html
https://satoshis.place/
http://ln.raceplace.org/
https://rompert.com/recksplorer/
MimbleWimble
Tranaction Aggregation
https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00492.html
=Info and videos=
L2 Summit Hosted by MIT DCI and Fidelity Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzoS0tPUAiQ
Dan Boneh - Bugs in Crypto Implementations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Tusw2CWKQ
Chris Belcher: JoinMarket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJZnkm0jW5E
=Altcoins=
Rawpool still mining old BCH chain
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8ju0kd/info_rawpool_iswas_still_mining_on_the_old_chain/
Announcing the Sapling MPC
https://blog.z.cash/sapling-mpc/
Bitcoin Forks
https://blog.bitmex.com/44-bitcoin-fork-coins/
=Security=
51% Attacks
https://blog.theabacus.io/the-verge-hack-explained-7942f63a3017
https://cryptoblockwire.com/monacoin-blockchain-selfish-mining-attack/
https://forum.bitcoingold.org/t/double-spend-attack-on-exchanges/1362
https://blog.zencash.com/zencash-statement-on-double-spend-attack/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ann&utm_campaign=double+spend
https://www.coindesk.com/blockchains-feared-51-attack-now-becoming-regular/
https://www.crypto51.app/
Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/side-channel-threat-model.md