This Thursday in SF: Socratic Seminar #70 from SF Bitcoin Devs at Presidio Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Core PRs, network stats, and research papers β debated live.
Thu May 14 Β· 6 PM PT
38 Keyes Ave Suite 300
https://t.co/mpZBjvucBp
Liam Eagen joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #390:
News
β Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48)
β LN-Symmetry update (26:05)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
β What is stored in dbcache and with what priority? (34:21)
β Can one do a coinjoin in Shielded CSV? (24:02)
β In Bitcoin Core, how to use Tor for broadcasting new transactions only? (36:47)
β Brassard-HΓΈyer-Tapp (BHT) algorithm and Bitcoin (BIP360) (38:31)
β Why does BitHash alternate sha256 and ripmed160? (39:24)
Releases and release candidates
β Libsecp256k1 0.7.1 (41:09)
Notable code and documentation changes
β Bitcoin Core #33822 (42:59)
β Bitcoin Core #34269 (44:50)
β Core Lightning #8850 (47:38)
β LDK #4349 (49:16)
β Rust Bitcoin #5470 (50:54)
β Rust Bitcoin #5443 (51:26)
β BDK #2037 (52:51)
β BIPs #2076 (55:49)
β BIPs #1500 (59:39)
Friends, Iβm hosting another Programming Lightning workshop at the stunning @PresidioBitcoin!
During this 1-day workshop, we'll build a Lightning channel from scratch. Along the way, we'll leverage the following educational tools to ensure that participants come away with a deep understanding of topics such as asymmetric commitment transactions, revocation keys, HTLCs, and more:
- Coding exercises
- Socratic method (question-driven learning)
- LOTS of diagrams
- Small-group discussions, where participants teach each other to reinforce concepts collaboratively