Socratic Seminar 020

Ground rules

1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event. Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!

Full chapter rules: Ground rules. Suggest topics: Suggest topics.

Location

Strategy HQ, 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza, Tysons Corner, VA 22182

Schedule

• 5:30pm – 6:00pm ET — Doors open and social half hour
• 6:00pm – 8:30pm ET — BitDevs Socratic Seminar
• 8:30pm ET — Departure

Technical / Protocol

CVE-2024-52911: Script Interpreter Use-After-Free

• Bitcoin Core Advisory
• Bitcoin Optech #405
• Root-cause fix (Bitcoin Core #35209)
• NVD

Bitcoin Core 30.0 Wallet Deletion Bug

• Bitcoin Core Advisory
• Bitcoin Optech #387
• Fix (Bitcoin Core #34156)
• Bitcoin Core 30.2 Release

Silent Payments (BIP 352)

• BIP 352
• Bitcoin Optech Topic
• Supported Wallets
• Bitcoin Core Integration Tracking

Bitcoin Core 31.0

• Release Announcement
• Release Notes
• bitcoin-dev Announcement

Cluster Mempool (Core 31.0)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic
• Mempool Terminology (Bitcoin Core docs)
• Mempool Redesign (Bitcoin Core #27677)
• 31.0 RC Testing Guide (cluster mempool)
• Spanning-Forest Linearization (Bitcoin Core #32545)
• SFL Cost Model (Bitcoin Core #34616)
• Optimized SFL Cluster Linearization (Bitcoin Core #34023)

Post-Quantum

Goals, Migration, and Recovery Debate

• PQC: What is our Goal, Even?
• Post-Quantum Migrations via Commit-then-Reveal
• Commit-Reveal for PQ Migration
• In Defense of a PQ Output Type
• Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
• What if we let Quantum Hunters get Bitcoin rewards?

BIP 324, Witness v3, and Cryptography

• A Post-Quantum Path for BIP 324
• Witness Version 3: ML-DSA-65 Post-Quantum Key-Path Spending
• Deactivating ECDSA/Schnorr
• Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK Aggregation
• Post-Quantum BIP-86 Recovery via zk-STARK Proof of BIP-32 Seed Knowledge

Lightning

Protocol & Research

• Lightning Economics: The Bridge Between Bitcoin’s Two Identities
• Post Quantum Lightning: Layer by Layer
• Eltoo / LN-Symmetry on Inquisition Signet (BIP 118 + APO+CTV)
• Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network
• Public Fraud Proofs for Just-in-Time Channels
• Lightning Specification Meeting 2026/05/04

Splicing & Taproot Channels

• eclair Official Splicing Protocol (eclair #2887)
• Core Lightning splicein/spliceout RPCs (CLN #9047)
• LDK Cancel Pending Splice Funding (LDK #4490)
• lnd Production Taproot Channel Variant (lnd #9985)

Implementation Updates

• Core Lightning P2TR/P2WPKH Dust Limit Fix (CLN #8807)
• Core Lightning BOLT Quote Improvements (CLN #9044)
• eclair option_simple_taproot Feature Bit (eclair #3144)
• LDK Zero-Fee Commitments Production Feature Bit (LDK #4515)
• lnd Onion Message Rate Limiting (lnd #10713)
• lnd RBF Cooperative Close Actor (lnd #9821)

Governance

Gloria Zhao Maintainer Departure (February 2026)

• Pull Request (remove Gloria Zhao from trusted-keys)

TheCharlatan Added as Sixth Maintainer (January 2026)

• Pull Request (add TheCharlatan to trusted-keys)
• Blockspace Interview

Policy / DC-specific

American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA)

• Congressman Begich Press Release (bill introduction)
• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Executive Order (March 2025)

CLARITY Act Senate Markup

• Congress.gov (H.R. 3633)
• Senate Banking Committee Markup Press Release
• Save Our Wallets

Bitcoin Commons

Public Alpha & Differential Testing

• BLVM Documentation
• Differential Testing
• blvm-bench

v30 Wallet Bug as a Formal Verification Case Study

• Wallet Migration Advisory
• BLVM Formal Verification
• BLVM Specification Lock

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