BitDevs Socratic Seminar 37

08/03/2024

11/25/2024

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Event Details

• RSVP: Meetup
• Time: August 19th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
• Location: Entrepreneurs Sandbox (643 Ilalo St) in the Purple Box room

Agenda

• 5:30pm - Arrive and network
• 6:00pm - Announcements and Clark Moody's dashboard
• 6:15pm - Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
• 7:30pm - Hang out after at Honolulu Beerworks

Announcements

• Respect people’s privacy
• Chatham House rules
• Follow us on Twitter (@HonoluluBitcoin)
• Donate sats
• Join our Telegram group
• HNL Tech Week Bitcoin Panel
• Sponsor shoutout
  • Hawaii Technology Development Corporation
  • Entrepreneurs Sandbox
  • Hub Coworking Hawaii

Main Topics

• Dark Skippy Disclosure - A Powerful Method For Key Exfil Attacks
• Bitcoin Core will enable full RBF mempool policy by default
• Mutiny Wallet is Shutting Down
• BitVM2 - Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers
• Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers

Optional Topics

• Engineering a backdoored bitcoin wallet | USENIX
• BTCPay Server celebrates 7th anniversary
• Supertestnet releases statechainjs: A vanilla javascript implementation of a statechain client and an operator
• Fedi's Community 'Super App' Officially Launched
• FE’d Up Covenants | Jeremy Rubin
• Voltage adds hosted Bitcoin Core solution
• BlueWallet v7.0.0 adds support for BIP47 payment codes and sending to Silent Payments addresses
• Bisq v2.1.0: Support Lightning Network as Additional Bitcoin Settlement Method
• ARK v0.2: Covenant-less, Offline Payments, Client SDKs, and MutinyNet Support | ARK - Bitcoin Layer-Two Protocol
• ZEUS Announces Olympus Integrations with Lightning.Pub & Mutiny Wallet (and Alby Hub)
• BancoLibre (waitlist): New Bitcoin/Tether self-custodial wallet leveraging atomic swaps for Lightning payments
• Bankify: Turn Cashu Mints into Lightning Wallets with NWC
• BoardwalkCash.com eCash Wallet Launches Profiles, Contacts & eTips
• Privately find & message your undiscovered peers with Speakeasy
• Challenging Stablecoin Platforms: Speed Wallet introduces USDT on Lightning to compete against Ethereum, TRON and SOLANA | Speed
• Discover the technical aspects of the Seed Tool app | Ledger
• Roxom - Bitcoin Denominated Market for Stocks, ETFs, Commodities
• Introducing PlebTV: A Dedicated Platform for a New Era of TV
• S.4912: Bill to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
• IMF 'experts' propose 85% electricity price hike for bitcoin miners
• Voltz: New custodial Lightning Network wallet that supports on-chain Bitcoin transactions, Lightning Network payments, and eCash
• Lendasat Introduces Escrow-Less Bitcoin-Collateralized Lending
• Foundation launches Vault Concierge service for sovereign multisig onboarding
• The Bitcoin Adviser Partners with Theya to Revolutionise Bitcoin Custody Solutions
• How Many Bitcoin Seed Phrases Are Only One Repeated Word?
• Zaprite announces OpenNode integration
• Cypher.space releases MVP version of self-hosted, bitcoin-only platform for setting up a free Bitcoin blog or web shop with value-for-value donation and checkout tools
• Putin signs law on legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia
• Aqua Wallet v0.2.0: RBF, Lower Liquid Fees, Native USDT Transactions
• The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) published a study showing that Bitcoin mining benefits the environment by effectively removing the equivalent of 20 million cars from the road each year
• Virtual Assets: Targeted Update on Implementation of the FATF Standards on VAs and VASPs
• randombtc: A random number generator that everybody can agree on
• Statistics on compact block reconstruction| Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 315