Bitcoin Sydney Socratic Seminar July 2021 (ONLINE meetup)

=== AGENDA ===

This meeting will be more-or-less dedicated to discussion of fee bumping and layer-2 protocols.

@ariard has been leading IRC meetings on this topic to try and get consensus around how to move forward. He'll joining us to lead the discussion. Topics to discuss:

• Why do [BIP125] rules cause pinning attacks? What can be done about it?
• Can we remove the absolute fee requirement from [BIP125]?
• sponsorship idea by Jeremy Rubin: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-September/018168.html
• SIGHASH_IOMAP idea by @ariard: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-May/019031.html
• Does a layer 2 fee bumping and relay network make sense?
• Package relay -- what is it and how does it help?
• Time for full RBF?
• Tentative Conclusions from the irc meetings.

Links:

• Bitcoin problem page: https://bitcoin-problems.github.io/problems/fee-bumping.html
• Summary of first irc meetings courtesy of Michael Folkson: 1, 2

=== ABOUT BITCOIN SYDNEY ===

Bitcoin Sydney Socratic Seminar: technically focused bitcoin discussion. Pull requests, new papers, security vulnerabilities. This is an online meetup and you are welcome no matter where you are from.

Participants are welcome to propose topics for discussion before each event (visit the organisation repository below).

Note: if you are new and in Sydney and want to learn about bitcoin, you might find our Bitcoin Sydney casual drinks or monthly meetups more suitable.

Bitcoin Sydney Socratic Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/F6jOnBpjJFXsGk3O5QRiyA
Organisation repository: https://github.com/bitcoin-sydney/socratic