Name: Socratic Meetup 52
Start: 2016-01-12T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-01-12T21:15:00-05:00
Location: Union Square Ventures

Food and drink sponsored by our friends at Blockchain Tech Corp (http://blockchaintechcorp.com/). If you can't make it to the main event please join us at Live Bait (http://livebaitnyc.com/) around 9:30PM.

Presentations:

Scaling Bitcoin II (http://scalingbitcoin.org/): A Review

• Mike Wozniak: Block sizes (talk by Jeff Garzik)

• Peter Todd: Segregated Witness (talk by Peter Wiulle)

Bob McElrath: Lightning Network (talks by Tadge Dryja and Joseph Poon)

Discussion Topics: TBA

Github
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7273
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4906 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7125 (merged)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2014-July/006327.html
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6980 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7062 (merged)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7217 (merged)

BIPs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/68ac3c777c484db4fe668a6190fd5fce33d9df94/bip-0141.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/68ac3c777c484db4fe668a6190fd5fce33d9df94/bip-0142.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/68ac3c777c484db4fe668a6190fd5fce33d9df94/bip-0143.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/68ac3c777c484db4fe668a6190fd5fce33d9df94/bip-0144.mediawiki

Capacity Increase for Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases

Statement from Bitcoin Core 2016-01-07
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/2016-01-07-statement

[bitcoin-dev] On the security of softforks
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/012014.html

[bitcoin-dev] New BIP Editor
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012197.html

[bitcoin-dev] SegWit testnet is live
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012195.html

[bitcoin-dev] Confidential Transactions as a soft fork
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012194.html

[bitcoin-dev] We need to fix the block withholding attack
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/012046.html

Mining Stats
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com

Miner news
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w82qx/after_two_huge_increases_1044_and_877_difficulty/cxur9p2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774773
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Relay Network needs a new maintainer
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.msg13510513#msg13510513

Lightning Network as a reinvention of the Ripple Distributed Protocol
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3xybg3/lightning_will_be_like_the_original_idea_of_ripple/cy9x97y

Scaling Bitcoin: Hong Kong Recap
https://medium.com/@lopp/scaling-bitcoin-hong-kong-recap-9a28f5a57f43#.kd9t37wti

Sorting our Replace by Fee
http://popeller.io/index.php/2015/12/21/sorting-out-replace-by-fee/

RFC: Tool for tracking and visualizing Bitcoin address reuse
http://www.kristovatlas.com/rfc-tool-for-tracking-and-visualizing-bitcoin-address-reuse/

Bitcoin: Mixed Signs of A Fee Market
http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=564

Bitcoin And Stuck Transactions?
http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=573

The Hashing Heart Attack
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/mining-heart-attack/

Drivechain - The Simple Two Way Peg
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/drivechain/

Extracting the Private Key from a TREZOR
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/trezor-power-analysis/

On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture
https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoculture

Lightning Network Onion Routing: Sphinx+HORNET
http://pastebin.com/vLUiW168

What did bitcoin movements look like in 2015
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2016/01/10/what-did-bitcoin-movements-look-like-in-2015/

Max H

BitDevs NYC

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