Socratic Seminar 89

Thanks to our sponsors Chaincode Labs.

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

Presentations
Carl Dong - Supply-chain Security for Bitcoin
Andre Neven - Koala Studio

Bitcoin Core PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14929
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13926
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15159
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14491
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14897

Bitcoin Optech
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/01/22/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/01/29/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/02/05/

Lightning
lnd PRs
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2448
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2405
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2460
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2370
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2538

Eclair PRs
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/762
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/784

Quick Lightning Channel Stats (31-Jan-19)
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/quick-lightning-channel-stats-31-jan-19-fee7fab3f7ac

Month in Lapps
https://twitter.com/BR_Robin/status/1086648655459876869
https://tippin.me/
https://microbet.fun/
https://medium.com/bluewallet/bluewallet-introduces-lapp-browser-and-lapp-marketplace-eed36721d853
https://medium.com/bluewallet/a-glimpse-on-the-future-of-bitcoin-ux-4129cca9ece6?source=linkShare-528e5c63cb74-1549392395&_branch_match_id=565908919501513408
https://mobile.twitter.com/poperbu/status/1091875913573322752
https://kriptode.com/
https://www.takethetorch.online
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509
https://medium.com/@matthewramsden/tabs-lightning-app-for-ios-37f3735b3e5f
https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1082778895500406785
http://www.buyabeerwithlightning.com/
https://github.com/wbobeirne/joule-extension/releases/tag/v0.4.0
https://twitter.com/Bitlumio/status/1088148250622902274
https://blog.keys.casa/casa-browser-extension/
https://blog.keys.casa/open-sourcing-the-casa-node/

Miniscript
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/miniscript/miniscript.html
https://prezi.com/view/KH7AXjnse7glXNoqCxPH/

[Reverse CoinJoins] New ideas to extend CoinJoins
https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1089795141739655168

PayJoin
https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/payjoin/

Current state and the future of DApps
https://medium.com/fluence-network/dapp-survey-results-2019-a04373db6452

Misc
The reports of bitcoin environmental damage are garbage
https://hackernoon.com/the-reports-of-bitcoin-environmental-damage-are-garbage-5a93d32c2d7

GrinCon
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvdk-nUGoWG43sWOUFsXbnA/videos
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/grincon/2019/

Stanford Blockchain Conference
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/stanford-blockchain-conference/2019/

Cryptographic accumulator based on the strong RSA assumption, Python & Solidity: oleiba/RSA-accumulator
https://github.com/oleiba/RSA-accumulator

Crypto Crime Series: Decoding Darknet Markets
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/decoding-darknet-markets

The Ripple Story
https://blog.bitmex.com/the-ripple-story/

InfoSec
Disclosure of the impact and mitigation of CVE-2018–20587, affecting all released versions of Bitcoin Core, including the latest 0.17.1.
https://medium.com/@lukedashjr/cve-2018-20587-advisory-and-full-disclosure-a3105551e78b

Selfish Mining in Ethereum
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04620v1

Parity and Aleth Ethereum nodes vulnerable to traffic amplification attacks
https://medium.com/@bitfly/parity-and-aleth-ethereum-nodes-vulnerable-to-traffic-amplification-attacks-4453307cce3c

Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blog/2019/february/downgrade-attack-on-tls-1.3-and-vulnerabilities-in-major-tls-libraries/

The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html