BitDevs Socratic Seminar 42

01/07/2025

02/24/2025

Previous Seminar Next Seminar

Event Details

• RSVP: Meetup
• Time: February 24th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
• Location: Entrepreneurs Sandbox (643 Ilalo St) in the Purple Box room

Agenda

• 5:30pm - Arrive and network
• 6:00pm - Announcements
• 6:10pm - Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
• 7:30pm - Hang out after at Aloha Beer Company (700 Queen St)

Announcements

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

Main Topics

• Bitcoin Payments From Digital Gold to Everyday Currency
• The Lightning Network - Expanding Bitcoin Use Cases
• The Bitcoin Ecosystem - 2024 Annual Report
• Tether Brings USDt to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network via Taproot Assets
• Hackers Steal $1.5 Billion of Crypto From Bybit Exchange
• What's next for Honolulu Bitcoin

Optional Topics

• Custodial Solutions Are Not Solutions | Spiral
• The First-Ever Bitcoin Telehash Fundraiser Actually Found a Block
• Braiins is open sourcing their BCB 100 bitcoin mining control board
• $40 Million Volume and 41,416 Bitcoin Transactions In Six Months: How Unbank Deploys BTCPay Server At Scale
• Covenant Emulation with Musig-nested-NOIST | Burak
• Coinbase Users Lose Over $300M Per Year to Social Engineering Scams
• Proton Wallet Is Now Available to All Users on Android, iOS, and Web (see past notes on Proton Wallet)
• Joltz wallet beta available on iOS Testflight (incorporates Taproot Assets)
• Sparrow Wallet v2.1.1: Lark for USB Signers, PSBTv2 Support & More
• Fedimint Lightning Gateway uses LDK Node to simplify deployment and liquidity management
• Alby Hub v1.14.2: Basic Swap Functionality, Home Widgets & More
• Fountain App v1.1.16: Nostr Live Streams & Storage Manager
• COLDCARD Mk4 v5.4.1 & Q v1.3.1: New Message Signing Features, Address Display & More
• Blind authentication for Cashu mints is coming
• Bitcoin Keeper v2.0.1: New Design, Miniscript Integration with BitBox02, COLDCARD, Jade, Ledger & More
• Satochip: Open-source, DIY Bitcoin signing device for less than $25
• How the BitLayer Finality Bridge is Delivering On The Promises of BitVM
• Szabo’s Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs: 25 Years Later
• Disclosure: Invalid Claims Liquidity Griefing in LDK v0.0.125 & Earlier
• Unbank and Voltage Partnership: Bitcoin Lightning in 40,000+ Locations
• The Human Rights Foundation Awarded All 11 Bitcoin Development Bounties
• OpenSats' 9th Wave of Bitcoin Grants: Kibo, El Tor, Nustash & rust-bitcoin
• Bitwise Donating $150,000 from BITB Profits
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection Broadens Crackdown on Asian ASICs - Report
• Galoy Launches Bitcoin-Backed Loan Software, Sets Groundwork For Open-Source Banking
• Obscura VPN - VPN that can't track your activity
• Primal v2.1: NWC Support for Primal Wallet and Web App
• Vertex: Web of Trust as a Service
• Introducing codename goose: Open source AI agent
• Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing (see past notes on Quantum Computing and Bitcoin)