BitDevs Socratic Seminar 22
Event Details
- RSVP: Meetup
- Time: 6pm - 8pm
- Location: Entrepreneurs Sandbox (643 Ilalo St) in the Purple Box room
Agenda
- 6:00pm - Arrive and network
- 6:15pm - Presentation from Marko
- 6:45pm - Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
- 8:00pm - Hang out after at Honolulu Beerworks or Village
Announcements
- Respect people’s privacy
- Chatham House rules
- Join our telegram group
- Follow us on Twitter (@HonoluluBitcoin)
- Donate sats
- Sponsor shoutout
- Hawaii Technology Development Corporation
- Entrepreneurs Sandbox
- New website
- Britney hosting a Digital Currency Class on 5/30
- BlueWallet postpones Lightning node sunset date to 5/31
Presentation
- Speaker: Marko, cofounder of Shift Crypto (creators of the BitBox02 hardware wallet)
- Topic: Unexpected hardware wallet attack vectors in singlesig and multisig setups
Main Topics
- Ledger's Recover service
- Transaction fees and "the mempool"
- Scaling in layers (and renewed interest in OP_CTV)
Optional Topics
- Bitcoin held on exchanges hits five year low
- Strike Goes Global, Expands to 65 Countries to Reach 3 Billion People
- Block's hardware wallet (BitKey)
- Spiral adds, renews developer grants, counts at least 6000 developers building with LDK
- Human Rights Foundation gifts 16.5 BTC for 12 bitcoin projects
- Review of Wolf’s first cohort of Bitcoin-driven startups
- MicroStrategy Lightning Platform introduced at MicroStrategy World
- Wizardsardine discloses vulnerability in Ledger's Bitcoin Miniscript implementation
- Review and analysis of malicious/fake Trezor Model T in circulation
- SuperTestnet releases a tool that breaks Ordinals
- BitResolve: Bitcoin-Native Dispute Resolution for FOSS Bounties
- Liquid Swaps by Boltz: Lightning-Liquid Atomic Swaps
- Lava: DLC-based bitcoin lending & borrowing protocol
- LNMesh: Offline lightning network payments using community wireless mesh networks
- Magic Webstore: Full bitcoin + nostr webstore embedded in a "magic link"
- Alby Wallet adds webhooks for developers
- Munstr: MuSig + Nostr
- Mostro: Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr
- zkCoins: A payment system combining a client-side validation protocol with validity proofs
- Storm: Protocol Suite For Decentralized Storage and Messaging
- Proposal for a new mempool design
- Payment Route Reservation proposal: PTLC/HTLC with reusable static invoices
- Fedi launches signet alpha wallet
- Nutminer: An ecash-based Bitcoin mining pool simulation built with Cashu
- Taproot and MuSig2 recap
- Taproot Channel Transactions
- MicroBT releases new line of Whatsminer M50 series
- Update on Block's bitcoin mining ASIC program
- Advances in Hashrate Derivatives Contracts (PoWSwap)
- Tornado Cash developer challenges Chainalysis data alleging criminal links
- El Salvador's bill on eliminating taxes on tech innovations signed into law
- Biden administration proposes a 30% tax on bitcoin mining
- Bhutan confirms that it is mining Digital Assets