Name: Socratic Seminar 87
Start: 2018-12-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-12-18T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Galvanize

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

Discussion topics:
Bitcoin Core PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14477
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14708
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14837
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14955

Optech Newsletters
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/11/27/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/12/04/
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/12/11/

[bitcoin-dev] Schnorr and taproot (etc) upgrade
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-December/016556.html

[bitcoin-dev] CPFP Carve-Out for Fee-Prediction Issues in Contracting Applications (eg Lightning)
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-November/016518.html

[bitcoin-dev] Safer sighashes and more granular SIGHASH_NOINPUT
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-November/016488.html

Minisketch: an optimized library for BCH-based set reconciliation
https://github.com/sipa/minisketch

Lightning
05.1 Release
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

c-lighting and lnd PRs
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2121
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2161
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2006
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2039
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/2313

SLP39 Olaoluwa Osuntokun (Roasbeef), CTO of Lightning Labs
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/39

Research
MIT DCI's Cryptocurrency Research Review #1
https://mitcryptocurrencyresearch.substack.com/p/mit-dcis-cryptocurrency-research

Simplicity: High-Assurance Smart Contracting
https://blockstream.com/2018/11/28/simplicity-github/

Pederson Swap
https://github.com/apoelstra/scriptless-scripts/blob/master/md/pedersen-swap.md

TxProbe: Discovering Bitcoin's Network Topology Using Orphan Transactions
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00942

JuxtaPiton: Enabling Heterogeneous-ISA Research with RISC-V and SPARC FPGA Soft-cores
http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08091

Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188

Misc.
Who controls Bitcoin Core?
https://medium.com/@lopp/who-controls-bitcoin-core-c55c0af91b8a

What is the tradeoff between privacy and implementation complexity of Dandelion (BIP156)
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/81503/what-is-the-tradeoff-between-privacy-and-implementation-complexity-of-dandelion/81504

bitcoin script playground
https://nioctib.tech/#/transaction/f2f398dace996dab12e0cfb02fb0b59de0ef0398be393d90ebc8ab397550370b/input/0/interpret?automatic=true

Information Security
Long-tail cryptocurrency is 51% attacked: Vertcoin edition
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/03/long-tail-cryptocurrency-is-51-attacked-vertcoin-edition/

Let’s Not Speculate: Discovering and Analyzing Speculative Execution Attacks
https://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/1e4115aea78b6e7c85256b360066f0d4/d66e56756964d8998525835200494b74

Grifter Journalist Jerry Ji Guo Jailed for Alleged $3.5 Million Bitcoin Heist
https://www.thedailybeast.com/grifter-journalist-jerry-ji-guo-jailed-for-alleged-bitcoin-long-con

Cryptojacking Malware Now Infects More Than 415,000 Routers Globally
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/415000-routers-globally-infected-with-cryptojacking-malware/

Timothy May RIP
https://www.facebook.com/lucky.green.73/posts/10155498914786706

John Newbery

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