From cc358591138d138689c5f3adb45017dfbe5fd598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: btsea <49500661+btsea@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:30:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add post for socratic 102 --- _posts/2020-01-09-socratic-seminar-100.md | 1 + _posts/2020-03-04-socratic-seminar-102.md | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2020-03-04-socratic-seminar-102.md diff --git a/_posts/2020-01-09-socratic-seminar-100.md b/_posts/2020-01-09-socratic-seminar-100.md index 9bf3de33..6e1427ae 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-01-09-socratic-seminar-100.md +++ b/_posts/2020-01-09-socratic-seminar-100.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ meetup: https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/266961213/ Special thanks to Chaincode Labs and NYU Blockchain Digital Asset Forum for food, refreshments and event space. ## Presentation + - Michael Shaulov - [Fireblocks](https://www.fireblocks.com/) ## Mailing Lists and Bitcoin Optech diff --git a/_posts/2020-03-04-socratic-seminar-102.md b/_posts/2020-03-04-socratic-seminar-102.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..151dcec9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2020-03-04-socratic-seminar-102.md @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +--- +layout: post +type: socratic +title: "Socratic Seminar 102" +meetup: https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/269005283/ +--- + +Special thanks to Chaincode Labs and NYU Blockchain Digital Asset Forum for food, refreshments and event space. + +## Announcements + +- [Apply for the Chaincode residency](https://residency.chaincode.com/) + +## Presentation + +- Chris Stewart and Nadav Kohen from [Suredbits](https://suredbits.com/) will + talk about [operating redundant lightning + nodes](https://suredbits.com/lightning-201-failover-node-demonstration/) and + [give a demonstration of Discreet Log + Contracts](https://suredbits.com/discreet-log-contract-demonstration/). + +## Mailing Lists and Bitcoin Optech + +### Mailing Lists + +#### bitcoin-dev + +- [A proposal for WTXID-based transaction relay](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-February/017648.html) +- [BIP 340 updates: even pubkeys, more secure nonce generation](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-February/017639.html) +- [Nonce blinding protocol for hardware wallets and airgapped signers](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-February/017655.html) + +#### lightning-dev + +- [Using PoDLE in LN](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-February/002516.html) +- [Decoy nodes and lightweight rendez-vous routing](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-January/002435.html) +- [On massive channel closing and fee bumping](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-February/002569.html) +- [Direct Message draft](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-February/002552.html) +- [Reverse up-front payments](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-February/002547.html) + +### Optech + +- [Newsletter #85](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2020/02/19/) +- [Newsletter #86](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2020/02/26/) +- [Newsletter #87](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2020/03/04/) + +## Network Data + +- [Analyzing bitcoin mining profitability following ‘The Halving’ and its indication for price](https://tradeblock.com/blog/analyzing-bitcoin-mining-profitability-following-the-halving-and-its-indication-for-price) +- [Stale block at height 619,141](https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1232962626302468096) + +## CVEs and Research + +### Research + +- [One sideded MimbleWimble transactions](https://gist.github.com/DavidBurkett/32e33835b03f9101666690b7d6185203) +- [A Bitcoin payment network with reduced transaction fees and confirmation times](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128619308850) +- [Taproot in the Generic Group Model](http://diyhpl.us/%7Ebryan/papers2/bitcoin/Taproot%20in%20the%20generic%20group%20model%20-%202020.pdf) +- [An examination of the cryptocurrency pump and dump ecosystem](https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gandal-Neil-etal-An-examination-of-the-cryptocurrency-pump-and-dump-ecosystem.pdf) +- [Bitcoin Crypto–Bounties for Quantum Capable Adversaries](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/186.pdf) +- [Securing Proof-of-Work Ledgers via Checkpointing](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/173.pdf) +- [Lightning Network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy](http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02819) +- [Profit from Two Bitcoin Mining Tactics: Towing and Shutdown](http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07068) +- [An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy](https://fc20.ifca.ai/preproceedings/54.pdf#) + +### InfoSec + +- [Escaping the Chrome Sandbox with RIDL](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/escaping-chrome-sandbox-with-ridl.html) +- [Mitigations are attack surface. too](https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/mitigations-are-attack-surface-too.html) +- [We tracked 133,000 Ethereum names and exposed their secrets](https://decrypt.co/19423/we-tracked-133000-ethereum-names-and-exposed-their-secrets) +- [Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks](https://medium.com/@ayelem02/congestion-attacks-in-payment-channel-networks-b7ac37208389) +- [Route Hijacking and DoS in Off-Chain Networks](https://medium.com/@saar.tochner/route-hijacking-and-dos-in-off-chain-networks-37ce6f54aa26) +- [Fulcrum hack](https://bzx.network/blog/postmortem-ethdenver) +- [IOTA theft and downtime](https://blog.iota.org/trinity-attack-incident-part-1-summary-and-next-steps-8c7ccc4d81e8) +- [steemit hostile takeover](https://steemit.com/tron/@steemitblog/an-open-letter-to-the-community-hf22-5) + +## Pull Requests and repo updates + +### Bitcoin Core + +- [build: Skip i686 build by default in guix and gitian](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18104) +- [wallet: Replace %w by wallet name in -walletnotify script](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13339) +- [Remove forcerelay of rejected txs](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17985) +- [set default bip32derivs to true for psbt methods](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17264) + +### libsecp + +- [Remove Java Native Interface](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/682) + +### BIPs + +- [Recommend synthetic nonces and verifying signing output](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/886) + +### eclair + +- [SendToRoute with routing hints](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/1325) + +### c-lightning + +- [v0.8.1](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.8.1) +- [Bitcoin backend generalization](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/3488) +- [Allow hook chaining for the htlc_accepted hook](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/3489) + +### lnd +- [adds fundall flag to openchannel](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/4029) +- [Intercept forward htlc [WIP]](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/4018) +- [channeldb/kvdb: introduce new KV-store database abstraction](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/3833) + +### BOLTS + +- [Single-option large channel proposal](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/pull/596) + +## Events + +- [Stanford Blockchain Conference](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2020/02/26/#notable-talks-from-the-2020-stanford-blockchain-conference) + +## Miscellaneous + +- [DNSSEC root key signing ceremony delayed](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/13/iana_dnssec_ksk_delay/) +- [James O’Beirne on Chaincode podcast](https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/02/12/james-obeirne-4.html) +- [Chaincode Decoded: The UTXO Set](https://podcast.chaincode.com/2020/02/26/utxos-5) +- [Stanford Blockchain Conference transcripts](https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/stanford-blockchain-conference/2020/) +- [Boltathon transcripts](http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/boltathon/) +- [Pheonix v1.2](https://twitter.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1230798255627407361) +- [Coinkite Bunker](https://ckbunker.com/) +- [Zeus v0.2.1](https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.2.1) +- [Circular rebalincing, RTL v0.6.5](https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL/releases/tag/v0.6.5) +- [ZEBEDEE SDK and dashboard for LN powered games](https://medium.com/zebedee-engineering/announcing-the-zebedee-developer-dashboard-unity-sdk-4598c394cc23)