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Doors open at 6pm with discussion starting shortly after!
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Cory Fields (MIT DCI) reported an issue which after Bitcoin Core v0.14.0 and before v29.0 a user/miner could create a specially crafted block to cause nodes to access previously freed memory. An attacker with sufficent proof of work could have exploited this attack to crash victim nodes.
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/05/05/disclose-cve-2024-52911/
Yet another quantum topic. John Light posted to the mailing list about the idea of a Bitcoin lost and found where if a quantum enabled user found a wallet with Bitcoin in it and did not steal the funds how they would go about proving who owned the Bitcoin and how to return it to them.
https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/YQmrRN0aRvE
Some notable features
https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/31.0/
Everyone hates dust, personally I’ve tried brooming, mopping and even a roomba. Nontheless there is still dust in my home. Bubbles proposes a mechanism to safely remove dust outputs from your wallets.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0451.md
Earlier naiyoma and danielabrozzoni posted to Delving about fingerprinting nodes via addr reqeusts. In this latest post naiyoma writes about potential mitigations.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/fingerprinting-nodes-possible-solutions/2466
You might have heard about Lighting, Lightening, Lightning Channel jamming, what you might not know is that there is another networking layer ontop of the lightning network which is the onion messaging network. Currently there is no standard way to handle jamming attacks on that network and this post approaches that.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/onion-message-jamming-in-the-lightning-network/2414
Last month there was a hack on Bisq for 11 Bitcoin
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszejcm7c4mw8p6autsgaaf38jc2q63kzlx5e2nva3lf84647nejxcsu8aj8
Paul plans on creating a new hard fork of Bitcoin named e-cash in August 2026
https://x.com/truthcoin/status/2047639261453680838?s=46
https://ecash.com/
Stratum v2 Working Group announces new cohort of members, including ANTPOOL, Foundry, and others.
https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/238
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/releases
Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date, however it wasn’t actually a quantum attack has very suspect circumstances.
https://x.com/projecteleven/status/2047661990605156796
https://x.com/yuvadm/status/2047708266205995269
https://x.com/_jonasschnelli_/status/2047765986443706547
https://x.com/SilkForgeAi/status/2047744229540069603
Senate Bill 73 - which holds websites liable for users who mask their location - goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks