Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar!

The event will be held in English and is free. After the event we will head to dinner & drinks, all are welcome! We would like to thank SuiHub for hosting us.

Thursday, March 27, 2025 7PM @ SuiHub

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.

–How should I prepare?– Read the material.

Agenda

1. Review of technical Bitcoin news
2. ARK Protocol
3. Bitcoin Blockchain indexing and wallet address handling

ARK Protocol

Reading material:

• One-page introduction
• One-page introduction plus deeper developer documentation
• 75-minute podcast with Stephan Livera

Bitcoin Blockchain indexing and wallet address handling

Types of indexing required for different use cases. Reading material:

• Primers on UTXOs and P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2WSH & P2TR transaction templates
• 4-minute read
• 3-minute read

In the News

Chain weather report

• Clark Moody Dashboard
• Mempool.space

Security / CVEs

• MEVpool: A Private Mempool Marketplace Standard
• LND: Excessive Failback Exploit
• The Bitcoin Ecosystem Report 2025
• River Research Report 2025
• OP_NEXT conference April 11-12 by Microstrategy
• TROPIC01 secure element samples available
• Rethinking bitcoin’s energy use through sustainable digital business models and resources monetization: A multiple case study analysis
• BitVM: How to bridge using 1-of-N trust assumptions
• ESSPI: ECDSA/Schnorr Signed Program Input for BitVMX
• DIW: Bitcoin is not the new gold
• Bitcoin as Tool for Financial Inclusion in El Salvador: The Perils of Authoritarian Governance
• On the Atomicity and Efficiency of Blockchain Payment Channels
• VITARIT: Paying for Threshold Services on Bitcoin and Friends

Miscellaneous

• Bark launches on signet
• TROPIC01 Source-available secure element announced
• US to release Russian Alexander Vinnik as part of exchange that freed Fogel
• Instant Bitcoin dev environment in browser by kanzure
• Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
• Jeremy Rubin endorses OP_CTV and CSFS
• BTC++ Floripa Hackathon Projects
• Custodial solutions are not solutions
• Prosecuting Privacy Report
• UTXOracle
• Summer of Bitcoin 2025
• cbip32
• A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
• Rebooting P2Pool For Bitcoin

Network Data

• Stats on orphanage overflows
• Bitcoin node P2P traffic analysis

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• P2QRH / BIP-360 Update
• “Recursive covenant” with CTV and CSFS

Delving Bitcoin

• Antoine Poinsot on Bitcoin Core’s Priorities
• Bitcoin Forking Guide
• Discussion of LND’s dynamic feerate adjustment system

Pull requests

BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals

• BIP3: Updated BIP Process #1712
• Update a node’s behavior to never fail an HTLC upstream if the node knows the preimage

Bitcoin Core

• Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2
• Remove all checkpoint logic #31649
• Introduce a new waitNext() #31283
• Fix -norpcwhitelist, -norpcallowip, and similar corner case behavior #30529
• contrib: add tool to convert compact-serialized UTXO set to SQLite database #27432

LND

• Adds an ip_range flag to the lncli constrainmacaroon
• Introduce restricted access slots for certain peers
• Allow coop closing a channel with HTLCs on it via lncli #9491

Core Lightning

• xpay slow mode #8094
• renepay: Support for BOLT12 #7985

Eclair

• Enhance the listoffers command
• Prioritize remote commitment instead of local one #3019
• Add scripts for taproot channels #3016

BTCPay

• Add RBF support

BDK & LDK

• Add support for detecting and handling canceled (double-spent) transactions
• Add support for pay to anchor outputs #4111
• Support receiving async payments #3440

Others

• Payjoin: Multiparty Senders: NS1R