Socratic Seminar 85

Thanks to Chaincode Labds for food and refreshments. If you can't make it to the main event please join us for some merriment at Westville Hudson around 9:30PM.

Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14454
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14336
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14424
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14291
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14150
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14318

Optech Newsletters
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/25/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/02/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/09/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/10/16/

Lightning Network
c-lightning PRs
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/1982
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2033
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/1888
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2000
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/1992
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/1970 https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2000

Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning
https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/10/17/neutrino.html

CVE-2018–17144: An Analysis
https://medium.com/@jimmysong/bitcoin-core-bug-cve-2018-17144-an-analysis-f80d9d373362
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc-testnet/block/00000000eba3f43a8624750f39e4520a1678c0dbdf8707bfa4854a12fbf086c5/

AsicBoost capability verified — 13% in energy savings
https://medium.com/@braiins_systems/bitmain-antminer-s9-asicboost-capability-verified-by-braiins-13-in-energy-savings-and-planned-da67c290152c

Misc.
Braiins OS
https://medium.com/@braiins_systems/braiins-os-introduction-45c545d13d51

Learning from cryptocurrency breaches
https://medium.com/@magoo/learning-from-cryptocurrency-breaches-5493da06139c

Research
sign-to-contract: how to achieve trustless digital timestamping with zero marginal cost
https://www.politesi.polimi.it/bitstream/10589/140124/1/2018_04_Comandini.pdf

The Proof is in the Pudding: Proofs of Work for Solving Discrete Logarithms
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/939

Formal Barriers to Longest-Chain Proof-of-Stake Protocols
http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06528

Fragmented Transaction Protocol
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/tom_oct17.txt

Statechains: Off-chain Transfer of UTXO Ownership
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/statechains.pdf

Cross Curve atomic swaps: Equivalent Secret Values Across Curves
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/cross-curve-atomic-swaps--equivalent-secret-values-across-curves.txt

Fast Secure Multiparty ECDSA with Practical Distributed Key Generation and Applications to Cryptocurrency Custody
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/987

Fast Multiparty Threshold ECDSA with Fast Trustless Setup
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3243859

Events
CoreDev Tech
https://coredev.tech/
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/

Bitcoin Edge
https://keio-devplusplus-2018.bitcoinedge.org/
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/tokyo-2018/edgedevplusplus/

Scaling Bitcoin 2018
https://scalingbitcoin.org/presentations
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/tokyo-2018/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwaDulmQtX-H8FOSQTKqMg/videos

Misc.
Monero: A Post Mortem of The Burning Bug
https://getmonero.org/2018/09/25/a-post-mortum-of-the-burning-bug.html

Creating money out of thin ether
https://decryptmedia.com/2018/10/02/spy-mining-hits-ethereum/

Spectre and Meltdown Hardware Protection Added to Intel's 9th Gen CPUs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spectre-and-meltdown-hardware-protection-added-to-intels-9th-gen-cpus/