Announcements

Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsors CardCoins, Chaincode Labs and Wolf NYC for food, refreshments and event space.

We will be meeting at the Chaincode Labs office again! Please make sure you are RSVP’d, an identifier (but not a full name) is required for entry.

If you can’t make it to the main event please join us at PUBKEY around 9:30PM. Learn about this awesome new establishment here.

Presentation

• Martin Zumsande - Inbound connection flooding in bitcoin’s p2p network

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• [Opt-in full-RBF] Zero-conf apps in immediate danger
• Peter Todd full-RBF Peering client

lightning-dev

• Factory-Optimized Protocols For Lightning
• Two-party eltoo w/ punishment
• “Updates Overflow” Attacks against Two-Party Eltoo ?

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 25574 Improve error handling when VerifyDB fails due to insufficient dbcache (validation)
  • 26631 add coverage for dust mempool policy (-dustrelayfee setting) (tests)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • December 1st
  • December 8th
• Bitcoin Core wallet meetings
  • December 2nd
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • December 5th

Optech

• Newsletter #228 audio recap
• Newsletter #229, audio recap
• Newsletter #230, audio recap

Network Data

• 70 bitcoin deployed to lightning in november
• block mined by small pool, mmpool
• electrum server performance report (2022)
• inbound connection flooder down
• monitor fullrbf replacements
• top fee-earning lightning routing nodes 2022
• wallet of satoshi completing 11k payments per day

Research

• Bitcoin Security-Latency Under Network Delay
• (Concurrently Secure) Blind Schnorr from Schnorr
• Do Not Rug on Me: Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Scam Detection
• Jolt: Recovering TLS Signing Keys via Rowhammer Faults
• Stateful Layered Chain Model to Improve the Scalability of Bitcoin
• Stronger Security and Generic Constructions for Adaptor Signatures
• Threshold Signatures with Private Accountability

InfoSec

• Android platform certificates compromised
• BinaryWatch.org
• COVID-bit: Keep a Distance of (at least) 2m From My Air-Gap Computer!
• Malicious Python Packages Replace Crypto Addresses in Developer Clipboards
• Pwn the ESP32 Forever: Flash Encryption and Sec. Boot Keys Extraction
• SGX.fail

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• rpc: Return fee and prevout (utxos) to getrawtransaction
• p2p: Erlay support signaling follow-up
• wallet: bugfix, invalid CoinsResult cached total amount
• wallet: Avoid a segfault in migratewallet failure cleanup

lnd

• pathfinding: capacity-dependent apriori model probability
• htlcswitch: relax failure message length check
• lncli+chainrpc: add chainkit RPC service with endpoints GetBlock, GetBestBlock, GetBlockHash

eclair

• Improve htlc_maximum_msat in channel updates
• Implement correct ordering of tx_signatures
• Create routes to self using remote alias

Core Lightning

• lightningd: don’t announce names as DNS by default.

rust-lightning

• BOLT 12 invoice_request encoding and building
• Introduce new BumpTransactionEvent variant HTLCResolution
• Intercept HTLC forwards for JIT channels
• Add invoice constructor with custom payment hash

BLIPs

• Statechannels

New Releases

• 10101 v0.3.2, about
• Bitcoin Core v24.0.1 - mempoolfullrbf, sendall rpc, new headers dl logic, more
• bitcoin-inquisition v23.0, about - APO, CTV
• Core Lightning v22.11 , blog - reckless plugin manager, splicing scaffolding, more
• eclair v0.8.0 - zero-conf channels, channel aliases, BOLT 12 scaffolding
• libsecp256k1 v0.2.0 - schnorrsig, extrakeys and ECDH made default
• mercury-wallet v0.8.3 - i2p support
• Phoenix v1.4.24 - LNURL-auth updates
• poncho v0.4.0 - pay a hosted channel
• privpay-cli
• specter-desktop v1.14.0 - taproot psbt fields
• Tor Browser v12.0 - m1 support, https-only by default

Events and Podcasts

• APAC BitDevs - Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments
• Bitcoin, Explained 69: The Tornado Cash Trial
• CD82: Bitcoin Lightning Privacy Research + Browser Based Mutiny Wallet with Ben Carman, Paul Miller, and Tony
• CoreDev.tech 2022 Transcripts
• SLP438 Lawrence Nahum - RBF, Green, Jade, BuildonL2
• SLP439 Federico Tenga - What is RGB for Bitcoin? & Iris wallet

Mining

• Coinmetric’s State of the Network’s Q4 2022 Mining Data Special
• How Does the Current Bitcoin Mining Bear Market Compare to Previous Ones?
• November monthly performance: Argo, Bitfarms, DMG and more

Miscellaneous

• Anonsats: Payments Without Borders
• From Miniscript to Simplicity
• Ledger Stax
• Legends of Lightning 2022 Winners
• Lightning Landscape
• Lightning Privacy Introduction
• LiquiDEX v1: Solving the Range Proof Issue
• Merged Mining Part 1
• NYDIG research on bitcoin development
• Old signature posted on bitcointalk
• Scaling Bitcoin with Lightning as a Service (LaaS)
• Someone trolling Martin Shkreli with Hal Finney’s private key
• This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
• Using Bitcoin-compatible BLS signatures for DLCS - chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3