Socratic Seminar 65 (Food Sponsored by AlphaPoint)

Name: Socratic Seminar 65 (Food Sponsored by AlphaPoint)
Start: 2017-02-15T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-02-15T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Rise NY

Hosted By

Max H. and J

Socratic Seminar 65 (Food Sponsored by AlphaPoint)

Details

If you can't make it to the main even please join at at Live Bait (http://livebaitnyc.com) around 9:30PM.

Message from our sponsors: AlphaPoint (https://alphapoint.com/) is excited to be expanding their team with several new engineering and product management positions (https://alphapoint.com/careers.html) in New York. AlphaPoint powers digital asset networks and provides institutions a Distributed Ledger Platform to digitize, trade, and manage any asset. They have a seasoned team and are working on some of the largest production blockchain deployments going live in 2017.

Presentation:

• Ola - Pokereum

Discussion Topics:

Weekly Dev Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/01/12/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/01/19/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/01/26/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/02/02/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/02/09/

Bitcooin Core Development Activity 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1gfMV2Tqw

Recap of the Bitcoin Core Scaling Roadmap
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5sfaus/recap_of_the_bitcoin_core_scaling_roadmap/ddezc0g/

Network Stats
[https://i.imgur.com/xZ08HB1.png]
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2TyiRoWEAAbwB8.jpg:large]
[https://i.imgur.com/4Lec4VY.png]
[https://i.imgur.com/4Ri2wfO.png]

Bitcoin Unlimited Produces Invalid Block
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qwtr2/bitcoincom_loses_132btc_trying_to_fork_the/dd2okd7/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qwtr2/bitcoincom_loses_132btc_trying_to_fork_the/dd2q95o/

"61% of reachable BU nodes will reach chain consensus in ~40 minutes. 24% are configured to stay out of consensus for as long as 19 years."
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/826087468382429184

Bitcoin Hard Fork Research
https://bitcoinhardforkresearch.github.io/

[bitcoin-dev] Extension block softfork proposal
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-January/013490.html

Segwit Resources
https://medium.com/segwit-co

Bitcoin Privacy Landscape In 2017 — From Zero To Hero, General Guidelines And Research
https://medium.com/@nopara73/bitcoin-privacy-landscape-in-2017-zero-to-hero-guidelines-and-research-a10d30f1e034#.130ky5mq6

Bitcoin Script: a Reading List
https://blog.bitjson.com/bitcoin-script-a-reading-list-656242edfa6c#.46p34ensg

Bitcoin mine with 11 thousand miners dismantled in Venezuela
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qlo1w/bitcoin_mine_with_11_thousand_miners_dismantled/dd09p1y/

Double Spend Races
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02867

Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04439

On the original blocksize
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5qwp6f/poll_when_is_the_earliest_you_would_consent_to/dd5oyh3/?context=4

BPASE 2017
https://cyber.stanford.edu/blockchainconf

Evaporative Two Phase Cooling (BitFury)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDyGpeezSI

#bitcoin-lightning FAQ: Why the 0.042 bitcoin limit? – Medium
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/bitcoin-lightning-faq-why-the-0-042-bitcoin-limit-2eb48b703f3#.vw3jhnpzu

Alpha Release of Lightning Network
http://lightning.community/release/software/lnd/lightning/2017/01/10/lightning-network-daemon-alpha-release/

Setting up and Testing LND with the Testnet Lightning Faucet
http://lightning.community/lnd/faucet/2017/01/19/lightning-network-faucet/

Testnet Faucet Node Graph
http://svgshare.com/i/ZM.svg

Strong Federations, Foundation of Liquid, Whitepaper Released
https://blockstream.com/2017/01/16/strong-federations-paper-released-liquid.html

Elements Alpha Improvements (from Liquid)
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/pull/107

Elements Alpha Tutorial for Construct 2017
https://gist.github.com/instagibbs/09eba3a87fd3e8fd6c49ccea7809fb79

What atomic swaps mean for sidechains
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mimblewimble/comments/5ol5o8/hash_preimages_zkcps_atomic_swaps_and_htlcs/dckcay9/

[MimbleWimble] Hash preimages, ZKCPs, atomic swaps and HTLC's
https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00022.html

[MimbleWimble] Scripting observations and Lightning Network implementation
https://www.mail-archive.com/mimblewimble@lists.launchpad.net/msg00024.html

[MimbleWimble] Scriptless scripting and deniable swaps : Mailing list archive : mimblewimble team in Launchpad
https://lists.launchpad.net/mimblewimble/msg00036.html

Monero Scale
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5sd6rx/sidestepping_the_block_size_debate_for_a_second/ddetkpp/

Rusty Russel - blockchains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_0RWLf3zjs#t=394m07s

Please see event archives for previous discussion topics. Previous event (https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/236323435/).

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Socratic Seminar 65 (Food Sponsored by AlphaPoint)