Reading room
Socratic Seminar 021
corelightningminingpolicyinfoseccovenants
Ground rules
- No photos, videos, or recordings.
- 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.
Location
PubKey DC, 410 7th St NW, Washington DC 20004.
Thank you to PubKey DC for hosting.
Schedule
- 5:30pm – 6:00pm ET — Doors open and social half hour
- 6:00pm – 8:30pm ET — BitDevs Socratic Seminar
- 8:30pm ET — Departure
Parking / transport
- Metro — Gallery Place–Chinatown (Red, Green, Yellow), one block from the venue; or Metro Center (Silver, Orange, Blue), about a 10-minute walk
- Parking — multiple garages in Penn Quarter
Technical / Protocol
Bitcoin Core 31.1
Bitcoin Core v32: Parallel Prevout Fetcher
- PR #35295 (validation: fetch block input prevouts in parallel during ConnectBlock)
- IBD tracking PR
- Release schedule for v32.0
- Cryptobriefing writeup
Coldcard Exploit
btc-verified: Formal Verification of the Bitcoin Protocol
Covenants: CTV, OP_CAT, and BIP 448
Security
Core Lightning 26.06.7
HWI Moving to Maintenance Mode
Lightning
LND v0.21
Core Lightning 26.06
Taproot Assets v0.8 and Stablecoin SDK
Mining and Governance
BIP-110 Failure, Ocean Split, and the PoW Change Argument
- CoinDesk: BIP-110 mines two blocks then stops
- CoinDesk: miner rejects BIP-110 while mining through Ocean (DATUM)
- CoinDesk: BIP-110 fork 300 blocks behind
- Decrypt: Luke Dashjr removed as BIP editor
- CoinDesk: Luke Dashjr removed as BIP editor
- crypto.news: BIP-110 failure and governance