We’ll host the fourth FFM Socratic Seminar.
These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event:
- No photos, videos, or recordings.
- Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.
Topics:
Security / CVEs / InfoSec / Research
- Unstoppable JPGs In Private Keys (E)
- New miner from Block called Proto Rig has obvious problems (E)
- Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack (E)
- Infiltrated Selfish Mining (E)
- Bitcoin Core Code: C++, some Python and a Custom Build System (E)
- EPrint: 2025/1001 (F)
Legal (F)
- Samourai Wallet developers plead guilty (F)
- Tornado Cash trial concludes: Roman Storm found guilty of one of three counts (F)
- Oberlandesgericht: Virtuelle Entwendung von Kryptowerten bleibt straflos (F)
Network Data
- ASMap not blocking Knots nodes (F)
- Antoine: Misbehaving nodes (F)
- Sankey Merkle Branches Visualization (E)
Miscellaneous
Delving Bitcoin
- The state of Bitcoinfuzz (E)
- Eclipsing Bitcoin Nodes with BGP Interception Attacks (F)
- Sharing block templates (F)
- Measuring minrelaytxfee across the Bitcoin network (T)
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
Lightning and L2
- A proposal for non-custodial ecash (J)
- Alpen’s Public Testnet is now live (J)
- ARK Labs documentation (J)
- Lightning swaps / ArkLabs HQ post (J)
- Lightning Swaps are the connective (J)
- Arkade OS documentation (J)
- Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet (J)
Bitcoin Core
- index: Fix coinstats overflow #30469 (F)
- Add bitcoin-{node,gui} to release binaries for IPC #31802 (E)
- net, validation: don’t punish peers for consensus-invalid txs #33050 (E)
- policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee #33106 (E)
- kernel: create monolithic kernel static library #33077 (E)
- Introduce per-txin sighash midstate cache for legacy/p2sh/segwitv0 scripts #32473 (E)
- wallet, rpc: add v3 transaction creation and wallet support #32896 (E)
- signet: disk-space-DoS due to low mining difficulty #33266 (E)