Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar! A special thanks to Strike for the event space.
Doors open at 6pm with discussion starting shortly after!
The Chicago Bitcoin Collective Co-Working Space is now open for members to come. There is also a list of events for this month!
https://www.chicagobitcoincollective.com/
Google Quantum AI dropped a paper showing they can theoretically crack Bitcoin’s ECDSA with fewer than 1,200 logical qubits.
https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downloads/cryptocurrency-whitepaper.pdf
https://www.tftc.io/google-quantum-bitcoin-ecdsa-post-quantum-shrimps/
“We’re a 501(c)3, or in more plain language, a non-profit. We exist for the purpose of both educating new developers and funding another implementation. And we want that implementation to be conservative.”
https://productionready.org/blog/productionready-launches
https://x.com/jimmysong/status/2036203291164500205
Rare-ish two block fork/reorg between Foundry and AntPool+ViaBTC. Foundry mined six blocks in a row.
https://bnoc.xyz/t/two-block-reorg-at-height-941880/97
https://bnoc.xyz/t/two-block-reorg-at-height-941880/97/28
https://x.com/wk057/status/2036674054971703361
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/where-does-the-33-33-threshold-for-selfish-mining-come-from/1757#p-5233-the-selfish-mining-strategy-1
A demo to let end users see for themselves the impact of hard to validate blocks. We have crafted a series of 6 blocks that are hard to validate, but not too much. Each should take between a handful of seconds and one minute to validate, depending on the hardware. @ajtowns is going to mine the six blocks in a row and then reorg them out, so that anyone running a Signet node at the time would see them, but they would not impose a cost to IBD forever.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/consensus-cleanup-demo-of-slow-blocks-on-signet/2367
Splicing allows spending the current funding transaction to replace it with a new one that changes the capacity of the channel, allowing both peers to add or remove funds to/from their channel balance.
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/02-peer-protocol.md#channel-splicing
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1160
Node counts have shown some anomolies that are congruent with what a node sybil attack may look like.
https://x.com/lopp/status/2036055358767292799
https://x.com/willcl_ark/status/2037491687019147349
The open protocol for machine-to-machine payments. Charge for API requests, tool calls, or content—agents and apps pay per request in the same HTTP call.
https://x.com/tempo/status/2034253707303338264
https://mpp.dev/
Jeremy Rubin and Judica announces a white paper and reference library for Purify
Purify is a provably secure, circuit-friendly pseudorandom function (PRF) [3, 1]: the design pushes the expensive message hashing outside the arithmetic circuit while keeping the in-circuit work close to low-degree field arithmetic.
This month Square started to auto enable Bitcoin on all POS machines
https://x.com/milessuter/status/2038620026115145857
Armin Sabouri take a look at the different payjoin implementations and how fingerprinting those wallets can damage payjoin privacy.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/how-wallet-fingerprints-damage-payjoin-privacy/2354