Special thanks to Chaincode Labs and NYU Blockchain Digital Asset Forum for food, refreshments and event space.

Presentation

• Tadge Dryja - Utreexo

ML and Bitcoin Optech

Optech

• Newsletter 57
• Newsletter 58
• Newsletter 59

ML

• Bitcoin vaults with anti-theft recovery/clawback mechanisms
• Improving JoinMarket’s resistance to sybil attacks using fidelity bonds

Network Data

• BitMex outflow
• 85% of Bitcoins mined
• Increase in P2PKH usage

CVEs and Research

Research

• Modeling a Steady-State Lightning Network Economy
• Comparative analysis of Bitcoin forks
• Adding Expressive Smart Contracts to Legacy Cryptocurrencies
• Lightning Network (Part 4) – All Adopt The Watchtower
• On the optionality and fairness of Atomic Swaps
• Publicly Verifiable Partial Key Escrow
• Verifiable Partial Key Escrow
• Verifiable ASICs
• Ring signatures for de-linked fidelity bonds
• Securing DNSSEC Keys via Threshold ECDSA From Generic MPC
• Greedy but Cautious: Conditions for Miner Convergence to Resource Allocation Equilibrium
• The Node Operator’s Guide to the Lightning Galaxy, Part 1

InfoSec

• Trail of Bits Smart Contract Audits
• Address reuse in Wasabi
• Who Spent My EOS? On the (In)Security of Resource

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• 0.18.1 is released

BIPs

• BIP 155: addrv2 BIP proposal

lnd

• multi: add watchtower client RPC subserver
• routing: persistent mission control

c-lightning

• Be more forgiving with lnd
• lightningd: avoid thundering herd on restart

BOLTs

• bolt04: Variable hop_payload for the sphinx onion
• Trampoline payments

The month in Lapps

• SuredBits playground
• Balance of Satoshis CLI
• Lightning Labs v0.2.2-alpha iOS app

Misc.

• Andrew Poelstra TFTC podcast transcript
• John Newbery on Building a Bitcoin Developer Community
• Pieter Wuille on Building Bitcoin
• IBM, MIT and Elliptic release world’s largest labeled dataset of bitcoin transactions