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

Presentation

• Suheb - Ride The Lightning

Mailing Lists and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Burying CSV and segwit soft fork activations
• Miniscript (more)
• PoW fraud proofs without a soft fork

lightning-dev

• Reconciling the off-chain and on-chain models with eltoo
• eltoo implementation in Bitcoin functional test framework
• Avoiding gossip spam: how many updates do you need?

Optech

• Newsletter 60
• Newsletter 61
• Newsletter 62
• Newsletter 63
• Compatibility Matrix

Network Data

• Orphan Block 591,848
• Bitcoin Testnet Forkmonitor
• Create pie charts to see the most dominant miners over the history of Bitcoin
• Know Your Coin Privacy Explorer
• mempool.space TV View

CVEs and Research

Research

• Miniscript
• (Some of) the math behind Bech32 addresses
• Bitcoin Codebase Deep Dive
• The Impact of Time on DNS Security
• Payment Points – Part 4: Selling Signatures

InfoSec

• A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
• Details of the OLED Vulnerability and its Mitigation
• CVEs assigned for lightning projects
• Backdoors in Webmin
• Chainalysis: Most Mixed Bitcoin Not Used for Illicit Purposes
• Erebus Attack against Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
• Glupteba Malware Uses Bitcoin Blockchain to Update C2 Domains
• KNOB Attack
• EOSPlay Hack
• Security Audit of dalek libraries
• SIMjacker

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• p2p: Add 2 outbound block-relay-only connections
• gui: Create wallet menu option
• Conservatively accept RBF bumps bumping one tx at the package limits
• Bury bip9 deployments
• gui: add prune to intro screen with smart default
• build: disable BIP70 support by default

BIPs

• SNICKER BIP draft
• BIP 155: addrv2 BIP proposal

lnd

• add rejecthtlc configuration option
• mobile: Mobile RPCs

c-lightning

• 0.7.2 Release
• EXPERIMENTAL: simplified commitment support

BOLTs

• BOLT04: Atomic Multi-path Payments
• Merge final_expiry_too_soon into incorrect_or_unknown_payment

Miscellaneous

• KeyDerivationTechnicalOverview.png
• Lost $136,000 in Bitcoin? This Mining Pool is Looking for You
• Mines lost to flood
• SF Bitcoin Devs - socratic 13 reading list
• Rusty Russell - The fascinating life of #lightning BOLT 1
• Rusty Russell - BOLT 2a
• Rusty Russell - BOLT 2b: HTLCs
• Rusty Russell - BOLT 3: Bitcoin Transactions

Events

• Debugging Bitcoin Core with Fabian Jahr
• Taproot and Policy with James Chiang
• Scaling Bitcoin 2019 transcripts
• Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Transcripts