NashBitDevs Socratic Seminar #4

Agenda

5:30pm Meet and Greet and Pizza
6:30pm Socratic Seminar where we review various Bitcoin topics
8:00pm Further hanging at The Moxy Hotel bar

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 numerical closeness to next block nonce

Socratic Seminar

Events

• Workshop - Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) with the BDK Team, Sat. Feb 11 10:00
• Workshop - Inscriptions: Turning Sats into Digital Artifacts, Sat. Feb 11 13:30
• The Power of Lightning Summit 2023, July 13-14, 2023
• Social - Hodl Up Game Day, Wed. Feb 8, 13:00

News

• The Breez SDK repo is now public
• River shipped an update to their open-source Elixir Bitcoin library which now supports Schnorr signatures
• Spiral Quarterly Update Q1 2023

New Work / Research

• "Vaults and Covenants" by James O'Beirne
• [Lightning-dev] Swap-in-Potentiam: Moving Onchain Funds "Instantly" To Lightning
• [Lightning-dev] AJ sketches out a way to do proof of payment for async payments

Lightning Projects

Lightning Dev Kit

• Post-anchor: do not aggregate claim of revoked output rust-lightning#1841

Bitcoin Projects

Bitcoin Dev Kit

• WIP BDK 1.0 Staging

Fedimint

• Add Stability Pool Module fedimint#1557
• ":Fedipool: Fedimint Could Mitigate Bitcoin Mining Pool Concerns"

Ordinals

• Inscriptions are finally ready for Bitcoin mainnet with ord version 0.4.0 release
• Eric Wall's fully onchain-inscribed (360kb) Bitcoin NFT and inscription transaction