Socratic Seminar 84

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 at HYPR and Chaincode labs for food and drink.

Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core[masked]
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.16.3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17144

Bitcoin Core 0.17rc4
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.17.0rc4

Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/08/21/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/08/28/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/04/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/11/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/18/

BIP 151 Overhall
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14032
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14047
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14049
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14050

BIP: Generic Signed Message Format by kallewoof
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/725

[bitcoin-dev] SIGHASH2 for version 1 witness programme
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-August/016345.html

[bitcoin-dev] bustapay BIP :: a practical sender/receiver coinjoin protocol
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-September/016384.html

Stats
https://dashboard.bitcoinops.org/d/TDhboADmk/bitcoin-optech-dashboards?orgId=1
https://asicboost.dance
https://btc.com/00000000000000000021868c2cefc52a480d173c849412fe81c4e5ab806f94ab

Lightning Network
c-lightning 0.6.1
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.6.1

first version of lib-autopilot.py
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/1888

Spark: A new GUI for c-lightning
https://medium.com/@notgrubles/spark-a-new-gui-for-c-lightning-2cf2f024500c

Lightning Desktp 0.2.2-alpha Release
https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/09/10/lightning-app.html

LND 0.5 Release
https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/09/14/lnd-v0.5.html

LND PRs
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1937
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1941
(merged)https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1818
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1824
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1516
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1843
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1809 (/merged)

LND performance improvements
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1040460464826642435

Zap Desktop 0.2.1
https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/zap-desktop-0-2-1-cant-stop-won-t-stop-61acb2e4ee15

Schnorr and Taproot in Lightning
https://jonasnick.github.io/blog/2018/09/04/schnorr-and-taproot-in-lightning/

Atomic on-chain ETH to off-chain BTC swap
https://medium.com/@jason.hcwong/atomic-on-chain-eth-to-off-chain-btc-swap-3c959ab22e52

MimbleWimble
Enable non-interactive transactions in Grin
https://www.reddit.com/r/grincoin/comments/9deh40/is_there_any_idea_to_enable_noninteractive/e5j12rn

BIP32 Wallet Compliance - Aggsig Updates - Bulletproof Update
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/1501

Research
Routing Cryptocurrency with the Spider Network
http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05088v2

Airdrops and Privacy: A Case Study in Cross-Blockchain Analysis
http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05360v1

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Address Clustering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06369v3

(meetup limits description length, please see here for the full list)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2wcwwPbKDhDcyEGr7Y4cFE9UNZnTeDUtNUBVll2BWI/edit