Socratic Meetup 58

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Discussion topics:

BIP 68/112/113 Activated via BIP 9

[http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver9-2k.png]

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/08/version-bits-miners-faq/ (https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/21/csv-softfork-instructions/)

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/21/csv-softfork-instructions/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r9tiv/csv_soft_fork_has_activated_as_of_block_419328/d4zmz2h?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4p4klg/bitcoin_core_project_the_csv_soft_fork_has/d4i7rwl

.13 Milestone

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/milestone/20

Issues/PRs

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8170

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8176

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8182

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8206

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8259

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8235

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8323

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8307

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8266

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8279

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8179 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8068 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7749 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7600 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8113 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7957 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8083 (merged)

Weekly Meetings

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/09/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/16/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/23/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/06/30/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/07/07/

Segwit

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/06/24/segwit-next-steps/

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012747.html

https://petertodd.org/2016/segwit-consensus-critical-code-review

https://petertodd.org/2016/segwit-review-update

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4r6p99/vitalik_how_i_would_fix_the_issues_that_segwit/d4ysvw9

BIP 70 Extension

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012776.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4rd3he/netki_raises_35m_seed_round_company_is_the/d505xsc

BIP 151 Discussion

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-June/012868.html

Weekly Mining Stats

https://organofcorti.blogspot.com/

https://twitter.com/sysmannet/status/750658030962876416

Compact Block Stats

https://imgur.com/xEPsKWY (https://imgur.com/dadSTJV)

Bitcoin FIBRE

http://bitcoinfibre.org/

http://bitcoinfibre.org/stats_ng.html

http://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2016/07/07/relay-networks/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4ryziw/why_would_increasing_the_bitcoin_block_size_lead/d55avuv

Flare: An Approach to Routing in Lightning Network

https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/the-bitfury-group-releases-white-paper-flare-an-approach-to-routing-in-lightning-network-8bc263dcdc92#.19cydc285

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4roxim/bitfury_releases_proposal_for_bitcoin_lightning/d53653t

Hiding Money: CoinJoins

https://coinlab.com/blog/post/coinjoin/

JoinMarket's privacy is degraded until further notice

https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/00255ecfe1bc4984fcf7c65e25aa8b4b

Minor update on transaction fees: users still don’t care.

http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=591

A developer-oriented series about Bitcoin

http://davidederosa.com/basic-blockchain-programming/

Transaction Queue Statistics

http://www.bitcoinqueue.com/live.html

Blockchain Visualization

https://gappleto97.github.io/visualizer/

What does the curve used in Bitcoin, secp256k1, look like?

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21907/what-does-the-curve-used-in-bitcoin-secp256k1-look-like/21911#21911

The mempool vs your mempool

https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4o9tb1/mempool_megathread/d4askrv?context=3

Secure Hardware and Open Source

https://medium.com/@Ledger/secure-hardware-and-open-source-ecd26579d839#.ynottvtze

On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/555.pdf

Making Smart Contracts Smarter

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/633.pdf

Extractable Witness Encryption and Timed-Release Encryption from Bitcoin

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/482.pdf

Smart Signatures

http://www.weboftrust.info/downloads/smart-signatures.pdf

Nextblock_Weakblock

https://gist.github.com/jl2012/2db9e434ce7beb8e13354604305f6d77

Ethereum is the OP_EVAL of cryptocurrency

https://medium.com/@chjj/ethereum-is-the-op-eval-of-cryptocurrency-d6beaa17eb50#.flplzut7h

Antminers Hacked

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/aussie_writes_app_to_hijack_scores_of_pricey_antmine_bitcoin_miners/?mt=1468391891472 (https://medium.com/@chjj/ethereum-is-the-op-eval-of-cryptocurrency-d6beaa17eb50#.flplzut7h)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4sfm8b/antminer_bitcoin_boxen_can_be_hacked_says/d58xsys

Blockchain Graveyard

https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/