Socratic Seminar 21
Announcements
- New logo
- Respect people’s privacy
- Chatham House rules
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- Follow us on Twitter (@HonoluluBitcoin)
- Donate sats
- Sponsor shoutout
- Hawaii Technology Development Corporation
- Entrepreneurs Sandbox
- Poncho Shoffeitt from the Makani Football Club
Technology
Base layer
- BIP-327 Merged: MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures (Obsidian Link)
- How Zerosync hopes to reduce the costs of validating bitcoin nodes (Obsidian Link)
- Block requests community feedback on Mining Development Kit (Obsidian Link)
Second layer
- Route Blinding has been merged into the Lightning spec (Obsidian Link)
- @dusty_daemon's PR to add channel splicing to CoreLightning (Obsidian Link)
- Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) announces roadmap
- Mutiny Wallet: Privacy-focused bitcoin lightning payments
- Breez announces "Open-LSP Model" to onboard new Lightning Service Providers (Obsidian Link)
- Jack Dorsey’s TBD announces new Lightning Service Provider c= (Obsidian Link)
- Gigi proposes "Lightning Prisms" concept (Obsidian Link)
- Lightning accelerator “In Wolf’s Clothing” announces first cohort (Obsidian Link)
Other
- Fedimint Stability Pool Proposal (Obsidian Link)
- The Bitcoin Whitepaper is hidden in every modern copy of macOS
Optional Topics
- Bank runs and economic fragility
- A recap of last week’s banking contagion and bitcoin (Obsidian Link)
- Jesse Myers's March update on bitcoin/macro
- ELI5 – What's happened to Silicon Valley Bank?
- U.S. Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve will guarantee all deposits at SVB, Signature Bank in unprecedented move
- The Federal Reserve intervenes: bank term funding program
- White House releases economic report on bitcoin (Obsidian Link)
- RESTRICT Act (Obsidian Link)
- RESTRICT Act: A sweeping national security 'TikTok ban' bill includes $250k fine if you access a 'banned' site or service
- The RESTRICT Act creates blanket authority, with few checks, to ban just about anything linked to a ‘foreign adversary’
- Stop the RESTRICT Act, Pass Real Privacy Legislation - EFF
- US Government sold 9,861 BTC stolen from Silkroad, will sell remaining 41,490 BTC this year
- P2P marketplace Paxful suspends operations
- Block describes strategic vision for bitcoin on/off-ramp partnerships
- BTCPay Server adds WabiSabi coinjoin plugin, giving option for increased privacy for merchants
- OpenOrdex: Open Ordinals Decentralized Exchange
- Sovereign rollups on Bitcoin with Rollkit
- Fidelity investments has opened bitcoin trading to the public
- Ledger raises another $108M in Series C extension round at $1.4B valuation
- Utreexo service bit chosen for testnet/signet signalling
- Luxor Mining launches LuxOS Antminer firmware
- Fold announces exclusive global partnership with Visa
- RoninDojo team announces RoninMobile security/privacy-focused smartphones
- CFTC commissioner on innovation, commodities and misconceptions about bitcoin regulation
- Texas House introduces bill to boost local bitcoin economy and protect rights of individual btc ownership
- Texas Senate committee unanimously passed Bill 1751 - limits miner participation in grid-balancing programs
- El Salvador eliminates all taxes on technology innovations, establishes a National Bitcoin Office
- New EU AML rules may seek KYC checks for commercial bitcoin payments over €1000
- Zebedee introduces instant global payments using the bitcoin lightning network
- Terawulf brings first fully nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining operation in America online
- Blockchain startup Tari Labs wins restraining order against Lightning Labs over Taro protocol
- Tor Project partners with Mullvad VPN to launch privacy-preserving Mullvad Browser
- BRICS nations developing “New Currency” as quest for global de-dollarization accelerates
