Socratic Seminar 94

If you can't make it to the main event please join us at BBar and Grill around 9:30PM. Thanks to our friends at Chaincode Labs and NYU Digital Asset Forum for food, refreshments and event space. If you can't make it to the main event please join us at BBar and Grill around 9:30PM

FULL DISCUSSION TOPIC LIST: https://bitdevs.org/2019-07-25-socratic-seminar-94

## Presentation
Jeff Vandrew Jr - Modular BTCPay Server

## ML and Bitcoin Optech

#### Optech
Newsletter 51
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/06/12/

Newsletter 52
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/06/26/

Newsletter 53
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/07/03/

Newsletter 54
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/07/10/

Newsletter 55
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/07/17/

Newsletter 56
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/07/24/

#### ML
Bitcoin Core to disable Bloom-based Filtering by default
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-July/017145.html

PSA: Upcoming disclosure of pre-v0.17.1 vulnerabilities
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-June/017040.html

## Network Data
Invalid Block
https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1148989508588883970

Coin Metrics State of the Network Series
https://coinmetrics.substack.com/

Casa Explorer
https://explore.casa

## CVEs and Research

#### Research
Rational Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0609035

Distributing any Elliptic Curve Based Protocol: With an Application to MixNets
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/768

A Formal Treatment of Deterministic Wallets
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/698

Lot49A lightweight protocol to incentivize mobile peer-to-peercommunication
https://globalmeshlabs.org/files/Lot49%20Protocol%20Whitepaper%20-%20DRAFT%200.8.5_20190611.pdf

How to simultaneously exchange a secret bit by flipping a symmetrically-biased coin
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4568055

Revelio: A MimbleWimble Proof of Reserves Protocol
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/684

Letting a Million Channels Bloom
https://medium.com/blockstream/letting-a-million-channels-bloom-985bdb28660b

#### InfoSec
Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-zero-day-was-used-in-attack-against-coinbase-employees-not-its-users/

Monero Disclosures
https://hackerone.com/monero/hacktivity

Accidental Slashing
https://twitter.com/zmanian/status/1145072296723275776

0x threw the emergency halt switch on the exchange
https://twitter.com/_prestwich/status/114989811873061683

## Pull Requests

Bitcoin Core review club
https://bitcoin-core-review-club.github.io/

#### Bitcoin Core

#15834: Fix transaction relay bugs introduced in #14897 and expire transactions from peer in-flight map
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15834

#13756: wallet: "avoid_reuse" wallet flag for improved privacy
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13756

#16171: Remove -mempoolreplacement to prevent needless block prop slowness
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16171

#15427: Add support for descriptors to utxoupdatepsbt
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15427

#16257: abort when attempting to fund a transaction above -maxtxfee
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16257

#15277: Enable building in Guix containers
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15277

#16152: Disable bloom filtering by default
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16152

#15681: Allow one extra single-ancestor transaction per package
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15681

#### BIPs

#555: BIP 136: Bech32 Encoded Tx Position References
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/555

Signet
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/762edf9a1089acf6401c52e18b3a05efc4362b82/bip-signet.mediawiki

#### lnd

#3133: watchtower: integrate altruist watchtower and watchtower client
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/3133

AND MORE: https://bitdevs.org/2019-07-25-socratic-seminar-94