If you can’t make it to the main event please join us for food and merriment at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM.

Bitcoin Core PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12254
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13922
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13947
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13804
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13907
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12257

Bitcoin Core Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2018/07/26/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2018/08/02/

Stats
https://btc.com/stats/script

Bitcoin Optech Newsletters
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/07/24/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/07/31/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/08/07/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/08/14/

Field Report: Consolidation of 4 Million UTXOs at Xapo
https://bitcoinops.org/en/xapo-utxo-consolidation/

Lightning
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1693
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1746
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1704
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1694
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1692
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1644
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1579

[Lightning-dev] Arbitrary Bitcoin Contracts over LN
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-August/001383.html

Research
A survey of Two Verifiable Delay Functions
https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/VDFsurvey.pdf

The Impact of Uncle Rewards on Selfish Mining in Ethereum
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.08832v2.pdf

On profitability of stubborn mining
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01041v1

CALYPSO: Auditable Sharing of Private Data over Blockchains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/209

DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/691

Scriptless, atomic coinswap using cut-and-choose
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Scriptless,%20atomic%20coinswap%20using%20cut-and-choose%20-%20arubi%20-%202018.pdf

A Combinatorial-Probabilistic Analysis of Bitcoin Attacks
http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05255v1

Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/209

Reverse Engineering Ethereum’s Opaque Smart Contracts
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity18/sec18-zhou.pdf

Improving Privacy Using Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP)
https://blockstream.com/2018/08/08/improving-privacy-using-pay-to-endpoint.html

Misc
[bitcoin-dev] An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016190.html

bls-signatures
https://github.com/Chia-Network/bls-signatures

Monero Compatible Bulletproofs
https://getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-Compatible-Bulletproofs.html

rust-blockchain-store
https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-blockchain-store

InfoSec
Terpin v. AT&T
https://www.greenbergglusker.com/content/uploads/2018/08/Complaint-as-Filed-3063362-1.pdf

How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
https://medium.com/@vesirin/how-i-gained-commit-access-to-homebrew-in-30-minutes-2ae314df03ab

Responsible disclosure in the era of cryptocurrencies
https://medium.com/@coryfields/http-coryfields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4

Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order Execution
https://foreshadowattack.eu/