Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

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Today’s MC: TBD

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Today’s talk

Template Watcher by Curtis Heinen

Winner of the btc++ Toronto hackathon

bitcoin-dev

• On the Lack of Replay Protection
• Bitcoin After Block Rewards
• Discussion: Bitcoin After Block Rewards
• The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing
• BIP draft: Full-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
• btc-verified: formalizing the Bitcoin protocol
• Bitcoin Core AI policy
• Silent Payments Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later Attack
• Testnet 5 coming

lightning-dev

• Async Payments: Getting Paid While Your Node Is Offline
• Expiring HTLCs without free relay

Optech

• Organised crime groups move billions through crypto, global financial crime watchdog warns

Bitcoinomics

• The game-theory problems of PQ sunsetting modes
• Adam Back Lies About SPAC Collapse, Greg Maxwell’s Role in Chris Cook Origins
• The inside story of how a hike in Hong Kong changed crypto trading forever
• BitMEX closes down
• BitMEX insider trading allegations

Network Data

• OS fingerprints of ~16.6k Bitcoin nodes
• Forgotten Satoshi Nakamoto Emails Discovered
• Outbound connection success rates of a Bitcoin node

Mining

• F2Pool mines two blocks at height 956337
• Merge Mining Monitor

Token Layer

Regulatory

New Releases

• Cloudflare Monetization Gateway
• Deposit to Polymarket over the Lightning Network
• Announcing Wavelength: Bitcoin on Easy Mode for Agents and Humans
• Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength: “Bitcoin on Easy Mode” for Developers and Autonomous Agents
• Alby launches L402 Site
• Lightning Labs launches L402 Site
• Blocksite Bitcoin Explorer

Events and Podcasts

Miscellaneous

• Trip report: Chicago