Socratic Meetup 22

Thanks to the lovely team at USV for hosting us.

Should be a very sobering meetup this week, Bitcoin is hurting right now and there is no clear solution to our problems. You can expect a good portion of the meetup to be set aside for pool discussion.

On the bright side of things, we've got a jam packed meetup this week, please come on time as we will be starting promptly at 7!

Core Dev:

(Official) 0.9.2 Release (rc2 was released two weeks ago, I was mistaken last time)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/5fa6143d5ad97d5d00b245d5367d065afc4909fe/doc/release-notes.md

Github Issues/Pull Requests (bitcoind)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4351

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4347

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4332

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4344

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4331

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4351

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4311

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4298

0.11.3 Released (bitcoinj)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bitcoinj/cvc5X_VtX6E/94eDH-4a8fQJ (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/bitcoinj/cvc5X_VtX6E/94eDH-4a8fQJ)

receivePending accepts double spends (bitcoinj)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bitcoinj/BbJybCFa0zQ/I5aCmTIA8y0J (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/bitcoinj/BbJybCFa0zQ/I5aCmTIA8y0J)

Payment Request Instant Confirmation BIP

https://github.com/greenaddress/bips/blob/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations/bip-payment-request-instant-confirmations.mediawiki

Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away

http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05578.html

Timelock: time-release encryption incentivised by Bitcoins

http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05547.html

Blockhain.info's CoinJoin Implementation is Compromised

http://www.coinjoinsudoku.com/advisory/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/27rsv8/confirmed_blockchaininfo_shared_coin_is_broken/

https://blog.blockchain.com/2014/06/10/sharedcoin-and-other-coinjoin-implementations-uses-and-limitations/

Interview with Peter Todd

http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/06/08/interview-with-core-developer-peter-todd/

Mining Stats

http://organofcorti.blogspot.se/2014/06/june-15th-2014-weekly-network-and-block.html

Mining Concerns

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/13/time-for-a-hard-bitcoin-fork/

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopoly-can-attack-bitcoin/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890215

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/281ftd/why_i_just_sold_50_of_my_bitcoins_ghashio/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0

http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2014/06/bitcoin-and-51-mining-power.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RandomBlatheringsByJeff+%28Random+blatherings+by+Jeff%29

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/06/13/centralized-mining/

Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining/Mining Pools

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309073.0

Block Withholding Attacks

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/280s3m/eligius_pool_operator_catches_block_withholding/

https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=441465.msg7282674#msg7282674

Marginal Economy vs. Growth Economy (the article, not the podcast)

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/a-marginal-economy-versus-a-growth-economy

Bit-thereum

http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2014/06/bit-thereum.html

https://github.com/orisi/wiki/wiki/Orisi-White-Paper

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=645852.0

TorCoin

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7r4osQgWVqKTHdxTlowUVpsVmJRcjF3Y3dtcTVscFhEaW5F/view?sle=true

Presentations:

James Potter - Tradewave (https://tradewave.net/)

Sergey Nazarov - Secure Asset Exchange (http://www.secureae.com/)

Adam Krellenstein - Counterparty (https://www.counterparty.co/) Update

Artur + Ray - Open source wallet and Blockchain API

peace

jd