Please join us for our next special Socratic Seminar at Santorini Halving Party!

Friday, April 12, 2024 @ 4PM

As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:

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

These rules are in place so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.

Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research

• Bitcoin research price by Chaincode Labs (2023 prize winner)
• Breaking BFT: Quantifying the Cost to Attack Bitcoin and Ethereum
• 9 BTC stolen with fake Exodus wallet in Ubuntu appstore
• backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (in-depth)
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
  • tweet thread
  • GoFetch: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptographic Implementations Using Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers
  • Related article
  • GoFetch is entirely patchable
• EU anti-privacy nonsense by Sjors
  • twitter thread by Director, EU Strategy & Policy @circle

Bitcoin

• OP_VAULT BIP merged
• Basic vault prototype using OP_CAT
• GitLab Backups for Bitcoin Core repository- ASMap creation process
• Adding New BIP Editors
• rpc: Drop migratewallet experimental warning
• Bitcoin Core 27.0 release candidate 1 available (review-club)

Lightning

• Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix
• Payjoin-in-Potentiam: Externally fund an LSP channel open with one transaction
• Phoenix for server (announcement)

Mining

• T.I.D.E.S. - A Fair Bitcoin Mining Pool Reward System
  • Bitcoin Stack Exchange Explainer
• Introducing SRI 1.0.0
• Braiins introducing Lightning payouts
• Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC’s 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message
• ViaBTC’s mutated blocks without witness data

Miscellaneous

• COPA court win against CSW
  • Wladimir van der Laan’s reaction
• FBI subpoen for CoreDev attendees
• CoreDev Retro Survey 2023
• Scaling Bitcoin Apps with NWC (NIP-47)
• New version of http://learnmeabitcoin.com is now online
• Introducing Portal: the hardware wallet for mobile users (source code)
• Sharing the Code Behind Bitkey
• BitVM2 (tweet)
• Some statistics on the current UTXO set
• Mercury Layer
• Marathon Digital Holdings Introduces Anduro, a New Multi-Chain Bitcoin Layer-Two Network
• L2 Watch
• Bitcoin Layers

Funding, Grants

• OpenSats: Long-Term Support For PabloF7z
• OpenSats: Long-Term Support For Bruno Garcia
• OpenSats: Fourth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
• OpenSats: Long-term Support for Nostr Developers
• Spiral grant for StratumV2 dev