BitDevs Socratic Seminar 40
Event Details
- RSVP: Meetup
- Time: December 19th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location: Entrepreneurs Sandbox (643 Ilalo St) in the Purple Box room
Agenda
- 5:30pm - Arrive and network
- 6:00pm - Announcements
- 6:10pm - Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
- 6:30pm - Dave Harding guest speaker
- 7:30pm - Hang out after at Aloha Beer Company (700 Queen St)
Announcements
- Respect people’s privacy
- Chatham House rules
- Follow us on Twitter (@HonoluluBitcoin)
- Donate sats
- Join our Telegram group
- Sponsor shoutout
Presentation
- Speaker: Dave Harding (@hrdng)
- Co-author of the Bitcoin Optech weekly newsletter (2018-24), Mastering Bitcoin, 3E (2023), 21.co Bitcoin Computer tutorials (2015-17), and Bitcoin.org developer documentation (2014-15)
- Brink.dev grant committee member (2022-24) and former board member (2020-22)
- Topic: A channel-draining vulnerability he discovered in all four major Lightning implementations, the general process for how these vulnerabilities are disclosed/fixed, and inherent risks in protocol development.
Main Topics
- Bitcoin Core's Loss of Focus
- Quantum Computing and Bitcoin
- Foundation Announces Passport Prime Personal Security Platform
- The DOJ’s Dangerous New Legal Theory - Implications for Samourai Wallet and Bitcoin Self-Custody
Optional Topics
- U.S. Appeals Court Overturns Sanctions Against Tornado Cash
- Bitcoin Keeper introduces miniscript integration for inheritance planning and collaborative vaults for multisig key sharing
- Coin Center’s Analysis of the Crypto Policy Landscape Following the Elections
- IMF Reaches Staff-Level Agreement with El Salvador on an Extended Fund Facility Arrangement
- High Risk, Low Reward — Tony Giorgio
- Antoine Poinsot - On Soft Forks
- Transaction tech can’t compete with savings tech, pt 1 — Tom Honzik
- How Viable Are BitVM Based Pegs?
- "Blockchain And Bloodshed": What Soufan Center Gets Wrong On Terror Financing
- Newmarket Capital Launches Battery Finance, Bitcoin-Collateralized Loan Strategy
- SatShoot v0.2.0: NIP-60 Wallet and NIP-61 Nutzaps
- Lark v1.0.0: Command Line App & Java Library for Interacting with USB Hardware Wallets
- Alby To Sunset Custodial Wallet
- Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Ark
- Transaction batching via Ark
- "Non-custodial" ecash?
- A Last Resort: Un'FE'd Covenants For Bitcoin
- WabiSabi Vulnerability Allows Malicious Coordinators to Deanonymize Coinjoin Users
- Saving Satoshi: Practice-Focused Game for Learning Bitcoin Development
- U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Messaging Apps
