Presentations:
Will O’Bierne - Joule
Andre Neves - Lightwork
Jordan Frankfurt - arcade-like browser game
George Vaccaro - static lightning qr codes experiment
Discussion Topics:
Bitcoin Core Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14451
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14468
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14437
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14150
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14532
Bitcoin Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/23/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/30/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/11/06/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/11/13/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/11/20/
Stats
https://twitter.com/khannib/status/1063068406981767170
https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1066413641459654657
https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/batching?orgId=1
https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/segwit-usage?orgId=1&from=1520707903632&to=1541443906392
Lightning Network
lnd+c-lightning PRs
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1535
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2027
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2061
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2075
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2095
Lightning Residency
https://lightningresidency.com/#videos
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/11/20/#feature-news-lightning-network-protocol-11-goals
https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/day-1-of-the-chaincode-labs-lightning-residency-ab4c29ce2077
Research
Proof-of-Work Sidechains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1048.pdf
Automated Penalization of Data Breaches using Crypto-augmented Smart Contracts
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1050.pdf
Tracing Transactions Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12786
Misc.
Open Sourcing Subzero
https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/open-sourcing-subzero-ee9e3e071827
Bulletproofs pre-release
https://medium.com/interstellar/bulletproofs-pre-release-fcb1feb36d4b
Blockstream - Announcing the Liquid Full Node and Wallet Release
https://blockstream.com/2018/11/06/liquid-full-node-and-wallet-release/
Information Security
Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloomberg-supermicro-stories/
Add a privacy preserving feature for public key exports
https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-app-btc/pull/75
VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape.
https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day
Bitcoin Cash Split
https://cash.coin.dance
https://fork.lol/reward/dari/btc
https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/blob/master/doc/release-notes.md
https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/commit/321b2b6363c2df70c7427bd1618fdfbe2de81b2d#diff-24efdb00bfbe56b140fb006b562cc70bR2414