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Author: Liongrass

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+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2022-12-22 17:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 008"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/290319456/
+---
+
+## Announcements
+Please join us for today's Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsors [Adaptech Group](https://adaptechgroup.com/) and [Bull Bitcoin](https://www.bullbitcoin.com/), for food, refreshments and event space. [Soundtrack](https://rss.com/podcasts/btcjune/)
+
+- Snacks fundraiser: 1071463 SAT raised (~CA$240), catering by [Mati Bistro](https://www.matibistro.com/)
+- CoinOS party at The Loft: February 2023
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Ephemeral anchors](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-November/021222.html)
+- [Full RBF discussion continues. What is 'incentive compatible'?](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26451)
+
+#### lightning-dev
+
+- [DLCs on Lightning](https://medium.com/crypto-garage/dlc-on-lightning-cb5d191f6e64)
+- [Optimizing channel factories](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-December/003782.html)
+- [Channel jamming research](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-November/003754.html)
+- [Run your own LNC Mailbox](https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/mailbox)
+- [Lightning privacy research](https://lightningprivacy.com/en/introduction)
+- [Mutiny web](https://makers.bolt.fun/story/mutiny-web-pitch--476)
+
+<!-- #### dlc-dev -->
+
+
+### Optech
+
+- [Hal Finney key signs ominous (and fake) statement as to Satoshi Nakamoto's identity](https://gist.github.com/johnzweng/09aa944d9379607ce2442c8199034b59)
+- [100 Bitcoin related to QuadrigaCX wallets on the move](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/19/bitcoin-addresses-tied-to-defunct-canadian-crypto-exchange-quadrigacx-wake-up/)
+- [Binarywatch](https://binarywatch.org/)
+- [Bitcoin Binary](https://bitcoinbinary.org/)
+- How cold is too cold to mine Bitcoin?
+
+<!-- ### Bitcoinomics -->
+
+
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [Another record month for WoS](https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1603812141966016520)
+- [The largest 250 nodes in the network are responsible  for ~  65% of the capacity of all channels.](https://twitter.com/thomas_fahrer/status/1605650356699947009)
+- [El Salvador's citizens received $52,000,000 of remittances processed using Chivo](https://twitter.com/documentingbtc/status/1605284970490220544)
+
+<!-- ## Research -->
+
+
+
+<!-- ## InfoSec -->
+
+
+## Pull Requests and repo updates
+
+<!-- ### Bitcoin Core -->
+
+<!-- ### rust-bitcoin -->
+
+<!-- ### secp256k1 -->
+
+<!-- ### secp256k1-zkp -->
+
+<!-- ### BIPs -->
+
+<!-- ### eclair -->
+
+### core lightning
+
+### eclair
+
+### ldk
+
+### lnd
+
+<!-- ### rust-lightning -->
+
+
+<!-- ### BOLTS -->
+
+### New Releases
+
+- [You can now send money from Strike (US, ES, AR)to Africa via Bitnob](https://twitter.com/Strike/status/1603207276252352513)
+- [You can now send money from CoinCorner (UK) to Africa via Bitnob](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-enables-instant-fiat-transfers-to-africa)
+- [Africans in 9 countries can use their dumb phone to send sats over Lightning](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/12/20/machankuras-bitcoin-wallet-targets-africans-with-old-school-phones-and-no-internet/)
+- [Zeus supports LNC](https://twitter.com/zeusln/status/1604926345988939795)
+- [ImperviousAI available for Windows, Mac and Linux](https://twitter.com/imperviousai/status/1602918728559169536)
+- [Neutronpay App available in Vietnam](https://twitter.com/subnetmask/status/1599973707803668480)
+- [Liana: Miniscript Bitcoin wallet](https://twitter.com/KLoaec/status/1605627027746324497)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [Bitcoin Beach Vietnam - 23-24 March 2023](https://twitter.com/bitcoinbeachvn/status/1602765357177266177)
+- [Bitcoin Island Retreat - 27-29 March 2023](https://twitter.com/bitcoinislandph/status/1604815889148579841)
+- [Building "Web 3.0" the right way on Nostr with jb55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_Mlk__KR0)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [Paul Le Roux' incredible story](https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind/)
+- [How the IMF and World Bank repress poor countries](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries)
+- [B.C. hits pause on electrical connections for cryptocurrency mining](https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022EMLI0067-001928)