NashBitDevs Socratic Seminar #10

Agenda

5:00pm Meet and greet and pizza
6:00pm Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
7:30pm Futher hangout at TBD

Location

The event is hosted at Bitcoin Park:

VIP conference room
1910 21st Ave S
Nashville, TN 37212

Map

Parking Info

Announcements

Join us for the NashBitDevs Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsors Bitcoin Park and Bitrefill for food, refreshments and event space.

Reminders

• No photos, videos, audio recording
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Raffle

• Guess the next block nonce
  • Must be 8 hex characters, 0-9 and A-F, eg. 9A74E2B1
• Winner(s) ranked by numeric closeness to next block nonce

Local Devs Show and Tell

• Bitcoin Lightning car wash project
  • Jeff Wizer and Robert Parro
  • Shine Brite Car Wash is located at 211 N Main St Ashland City, TN 37015
  • Presentation slides

Socratic Seminar

Events

• Wed 5pm-8pm Bitcoin Park: Open House - Bitcoin & Academia
• Sept 6th-9th, Atlanta: TAB Conf 2023
• Chaincode Labs is running 6-week seminars in Bitcoin Protocol Development and Lighting Protocol Development in September

News

• OpenSats: Long-Term Support Program for Bitcoin Core Developers
• OpenSats: First Wave of Bitcoin Grants
• Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation
• Mutiny Wallet Open Beta
  • Android
  • How the Voltage LSP Enhances Privacy for Mutiny Wallet Users
• Binance Completes Integration of Bitcoin (BTC) on Lightning Network, Opens Deposits and Withdrawals
  • When Taproot?

New Work / Research

• Block: Update on the Mining Development Kit
• Covenants in Bitcoin: A Useful Review Taxonomy by Rusty Russell
• Libbitcoin's Bitcoin Explorer writeup
• [Lightning-dev] Jamming Mitigation Dry Run
• [Lightning-dev] option_simple_close for "unfailable" closing

Lightning Projects

• Introducing the new Phoenix: a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet
• Lightning Everywhere by Tony Giorgio
• Lightning Dev Kit blog posts
  • Anchor Outputs Channels Are Here
  • Mutiny uses LDK to create the first lightning wallet for the web
• HTLC Endorsement
• Add quiescence negotiation eclair #2680

Bitcoin Projects

• BDK 1.0 Roadmap
• Introducing Frostsnap
• [bitcoin-dev] Pull-req to remove the arbitrary limits on OP_Return outputs
  • "Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default" core #28130
• wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm core #27877