Merge pull request #114 from ChicagoBitdevs/gambpang/2024-08

Adds August 2024 topic list

Author: Christewart

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+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 57"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/chibitdevs/events/302145259/
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+
+# Bitcoin Core v22.0 vulns
+
+<https://bitcoincore.org/en/security-advisories/>
+
+This month, the public learned of two new security vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core v22.0, both of which cause the node to crash.
+
+# Immutable democracy
+
+<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nnM5_Z90E>
+
+<https://www.simpleproof.com/>
+
+We will watch a documentary about an IRL deployment of document commitments to improve election integrity in Guatemala.
+
+# Dark Skippy
+
+<https://darkskippy.com/>
+
+<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6979>
+
+Dark Skippy is a demonstration of how to use compromised hardware signer firmware to leak secret key material in bitcoin transactions.
+
+# BitVMX
+
+<https://bitvmx.org/>
+
+BitVMX aims to make refutable computation on bitcoin a bit more practical than the original BitVM design.
+
+# Stable Channels
+
+<https://stablechannels.com/>
+
+With a stable channel client, two users can rapidly settle a contract for difference so that one counterparty maintains a USD-equivalent bitcoin value so long as the other cooperates.
+
+# Impact of full RBF on effectiveness of compact blocks
+
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30493#issuecomment-2260918779>
+
+@gmaxwell observes a big increase in the rate at which nodes have all the transactions mentioned in compact blocks when full-RBF is enabled vs. when it is not.