Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

Welcome Elenctics to tonight’s Socratic Seminar!

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Today’s MC: Leo

bitcoin-dev

• Activate BIP 3
• CTV, CSFS, IKEY, PC: Soft-fork proposal
• Bitcoin Node Repository Consensus-Policy Separation
• Segregated OP_RETURN proposal
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade
• Bitcoin’s Security Budget Issue
• Unbreaking Testnet4
• Wallet Migration Failure May Delete Unrelated Wallet Files In Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1
• Bithoven: Formal Safety for Expressive Bitcoin Smart Contracts

lightning-dev

• A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks
• Ark as a Channel Factory: Compressed Liquidity Management for Improved Payment Feasibility
• Payment-failure times for random Lightning paths

Optech

• Jade Security Disclosure
• China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
• China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center issues technical analysis over US govt bitcoins seizure
• LuBian Mining Pool Hacked: Technical Traceability Analysis Report on the Theft of a Large Amount of Bitcoin
• Crypto Investors Face Violent Home Robberies
• Waterboarding, sexual assault, disguises: Details of terrifying $2M B.C. bitcoin hostage-taking revealed

Bitcoinomics

• From 2,600% Gain to 86% Wipeout, Crypto’s Hottest Trade Crumpled
• Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off

Network Data

• Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners
• Comparing the performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 over the last decade

Mining

• Stratum Analysis Panel

Token Layer

• Spark and Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos

Regulatory

• BTQ Technologies Launches Bitcoin Quantum Testnet
• A Call to Action for Canada’s Progressive Parties to Embrace Bitcoin
• B.C. wins forfeiture of $1 million in cash, gold linked to failed cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX
• Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s Bitcoin Obsession
• DOJ investigation of Powell sparks backlash, support for Fed independence

New Releases

• BitGo goes Lightning
• Bitcoin Echo announced
• Bitcoin on Metamask

Events and Podcasts

• BOSS Challenge

Miscellaneous

• The Man Who Got Eric Trump Into American Bitcoin Before 70% Rout