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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +type: socratic |
| 4 | +date: "2024-01-30 19:00:00" |
| 5 | +title: "Vancouver Socratic 020" |
| 6 | +meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/297662801/ |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar! |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/SSttYoEpgqPZAugPjd42xTdDAtb/crowdfund) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +We now post the links to this seminar in advance! [Check out our Github issues for the latest.](https://github.com/VancouverBitdevs/VancouverBitdevs.github.io/issues) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/calendar) |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- Noderunners Meetup **TBA** |
| 22 | +- February Bitdevs **27 February 2024** |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +### Spend your sats in Vancouver |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +#### New merchants |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +- [Arbutus](https://arbutus.com/) |
| 31 | +- [Vape and Bong](https://drvape-smoke-and-bong.business.site/) |
| 32 | +- [Float House Therapy](https://floathouse.ca/) |
| 33 | +- [Backpackbuddies](https://www.backpackbuddies.ca/crypto/) |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +<!-- ### Today's talk --> |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +### Today's talk |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Chris and Travis on [Joule Port](https://jouleport.com/) |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +## bitcoin-dev |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +- [Bitcoin Core 26.0 released](https://bitcoincore.org/en/2023/12/06/release-26.0/) |
| 44 | +- [Bitcoin Core Life Cycle](https://bitcoincore.org/en/lifecycle/) |
| 45 | +- [What are all the rules related to CPFP fee bumping?](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/120853/what-are-all-the-rules-related-to-cpfp-fee-bumping) |
| 46 | +- [Murch explaining the Bitcoin Core UTXO set](https://x.com/murchandamus/status/1737122899658448934) |
| 47 | +- [v3 transaction policy for anti-pinning](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28948) |
| 48 | +- [Mempool pinning for BRC-20](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1746196727953027205) |
| 49 | +- [Witness scripts being abused to bypass datacarriersize limit](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/29187) |
| 50 | +- [datacarriersize: Match more datacarrying #28408](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408) |
| 51 | +- [Demystifying the long and convoluted process of a Bitcoin softfork](https://www.quantumcats.xyz/bip-land) |
| 52 | +- [Disclosure: Btcd consensus bugs due to usage of signed transaction version](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-btcd-consensus-bugs-due-to-usage-of-signed-transaction-version/455) |
| 53 | +- [Warnet simulations](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/warnet-simulations/232) |
| 54 | +- [How do half-finished blocks happen](https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000001baf919a377ef1e01c2437c1dc5373e97013a9e09e2ac) |
| 55 | +- [Make provably unsignable standard P2PK and P2MS outpoints unspendable.](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28400) |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +## lightning-dev |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +- [Multiple currencies for LNURL](https://twitter.com/luizfgparreira/status/1730606242190524680) |
| 60 | +- [Fiat denominated LNURL](https://twitter.com/lorenzo_lfm/status/1732169402215211122) |
| 61 | +- [Accept LND channel management tool](https://stacker.news/items/349505) |
| 62 | +- [The Challenges of Developing Non-Custodial Lightning on Mobile](https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/the-challenges-of-developing-non-custodial-lightning-on-mobile/) |
| 63 | +- [Two Lightning Attacks Analyzed: A Response to John Light](https://stacker.news/items/351788) |
| 64 | +- [Rethinking Lightning - benthecarman](https://stacker.news/items/379225) |
| 65 | +- [The Past, Present, and Future of Offline Payments](https://medium.com/breez-technology/the-past-present-and-future-of-offline-payments-1ddb46054e11) |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +## Optech |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +- [Everyone Needs An Uncle Jim](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/everyone-needs-an-uncle-jim) |
| 70 | +- [BTCPay Costa Rica case study](https://blog.btcpayserver.org/case-study-bitcoin-jungle-cr/) |
| 71 | +- [Bitcoin transaction size calculator](https://bitcoinops.org/en/tools/calc-size/) |
| 72 | +- [Delving Bitcoin Forum gains traction](https://delvingbitcoin.org/) |
| 73 | +- [Ledger security incident](https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1735353894409052227) |
| 74 | +- [Shakepay customer data compromised](https://x.com/shakepay/status/1735469696718164197) |
| 75 | +- [LNbank Vulnerability Recap](https://d11n.net/lnbank-vulnerability-recap) |
| 76 | +- [Another LNbank vulnerability](https://x.com/btcpayserver/status/1739669361223172448) |
| 77 | +- [Klever Wallet: Security Incident 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2PeNLUpxY) |
| 78 | +- [SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker](https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/) |
| 79 | +- [Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud got hacked. Even its new owners don’t know how.](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/bitcoin-atm-company-coin-cloud-got-hacked/) |
| 80 | +- [Bitwarden Heist - How to Break Into Password Vaults Without Using Passwords](https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2024/bitwarden-heist/) |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +## Bitcoinomics |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +- [Mempool sniping of ordinals purchases](https://x.com/huuep/status/1729559294289600755) |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +- [Respondents to Bank of Canada questionnaire largely oppose creating a digital loonie](https://www.tricitynews.com/national-news/respondents-to-bank-of-canada-questionnaire-largely-oppose-creating-a-digital-loonie-7898369) |
| 89 | +- [Privacy is next for CBDCs in Canada?](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/digitaldollar/a-digital-canadian-dollar-what-we-heard-2020-23-and-what-comes-next/) |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +## ETF SPECIAL |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +- [What happens to dust sent to a Bitcoin ETF](https://twitter.com/hongkim__/status/1750972104600904019) |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +## Network Data |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +- [Bitcoin Block Arrival Time Dataset](https://github.com/bitcoin-data/block-arrival-times) |
| 98 | +- [Attorney-Eyes-Only Disclosure of Heuristics Used by Government in Analyzing Blockchain Transactions](https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/13/attorney-eyes-only-disclosure-of-heuristics-used-by-government-in-analyzing-blockchain-transactions/) |
| 99 | +- [F2Pool payout transaction with 0.5 BTC in opportunity cost](https://mempool.space/tx/1a1a6fbf2ce657217790eb3957b58e3b7cc4852c0e54011289b8300e0abf1e09) |
| 100 | +- [Inscription analytics](https://dune.com/dataalways/ordinals) |
| 101 | +- [WTF happened in February 2023? An analysis of the ordinals phenomenon](https://wtfhappenedinfeb2023.github.io/) |
| 102 | +- [FTX Sold About $1B of Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF, Explaining Much of Outflow: Sources](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/01/22/ftx-sold-about-1b-of-grayscales-bitcoin-etf-explaining-much-of-outflow-sources/) |
| 103 | +- [2000 lightning transactions per month at South Africa's 2nd largest retail chain](https://twitter.com/bitcoinekasi/status/1750884698178371804) |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +## Mining |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +- [Ocean](https://ocean.xyz/about) |
| 108 | +- [Ocean no longer includes inscriptions in their block template](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1732230375509004622) |
| 109 | +- [This N.Y.U. Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/technology/bitrush-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-china.html) |
| 110 | +- [Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/check-your-financial-privilege/stranded-bitcoin-saving-wasted-energy-in-africa) |
| 111 | +- [The Bitcoin Halving will be reorged](https://t4t5.com/blog/the-bitcoin-halving-will-be-reorged/) |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +## Token Layer |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +- [Expanding the Lightning network to serve billions using Liquid](https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2023/05/07/expanding-the-lightning-network-to-serve-billions-a-quick-win-strategy/) |
| 116 | +- [Inscriptions: A Guide for the Ideological Maxi](https://rodarmor.com/blog/inscriptions-a-guide-for-the-ideological-maxi/) |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +## New Releases |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +- [Secondl1ght on encrypted messaging over the Lightning Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UuHwXH4kk) |
| 121 | +- [Mercury Layer goes live](https://mercurylayer.com/) |
| 122 | +- [Lamassu now shipping conversion kits for General Bytes ATMs](https://blog.lamassu.is/now-shipping-gb-conversion-kits/) |
| 123 | +- [BBQr - Better Bitcoin QR](https://github.com/coinkite/BBQr) |
| 124 | +- [payjoin-cli: A command-line payjoin client for bitcoind in rust](https://github.com/payjoin/rust-payjoin/tree/master/payjoin-cli) |
| 125 | +- [Text Bitcoin to Anyone, Anywhere, Any Wallet](https://x.com/river/status/1735343963765391800) |
| 126 | +- [Buy inbound liquidity in Phoenix wallet](https://x.com/phoenixwallet/status/1735699451770032354) |
| 127 | +- [Opago Pay Lightning PoS](https://opago-pay.com/en/product/opago_lightning_pos-terminal_gen1) |
| 128 | +- [SatoshiGPT](https://chat.openai.com/g/g-wNCUpwLP8-satoshigpt) |
| 129 | +- [Introducing Ghost Addresses](https://amboss.tech/blog/ghost-addresses) |
| 130 | +- [Build the future of money](https://bitcoindevs.xyz/) |
| 131 | +- [Eleven Free Resources To Learn Bitcoin And Sharpen Your Knowledge](https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/12/27/eleven-free-resources-to-learn-bitcoin-and-sharpen-your-knowledge/) |
| 132 | +- [Aqua wallet launched](https://twitter.com/AquaBitcoin/status/1742761528451854390) |
| 133 | +- [Coinos Enables Liquid](https://x.com/coinoswallet/status/1742641753742811550) |
| 134 | +- [Blink Plugin for BTCPay](https://x.com/blinkbtc/status/1742963123647058169) |
| 135 | +- [Tor client written in Rust](https://twitter.com/samkorn/status/1743100521429242032) |
| 136 | +- [Buying Lightning channels from Blocktank on Bitfinex](https://twitter.com/synonym_to/status/1747604683907379651) |
| 137 | + |
| 138 | +## Events and Podcasts |
| 139 | + |
| 140 | +- [Julian Figueroa @KineticFinance - BTC Content](https://fountain.fm/episode/na6PmJQFhwbZALXzCw2y) |
| 141 | +- [King of free speech Nostr Damus with William Casarin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAm_YM9Ovbg) |
| 142 | +- [Will and Vanessa on the Life with Bitcoin podcast](https://x.com/lifewbitcoin/status/1731365177616961831) |
| 143 | + |
| 144 | +## Miscellaneous |
| 145 | + |
| 146 | +- [The Binance Crackdown Will Be an 'Unprecedented' Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance](https://www.wired.com/story/binance-settlement-transaction-histories/) |
| 147 | +- [Beyond COP28: A fresh look at bitcoin’s ESG credentials](https://www.ft.com/content/b26b5af8-0cf1-424b-bafc-d2ce4760a28c) |
| 148 | +- [Why bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year - Introducing the cockroach theory of crypto](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/12/18/why-bitcoin-is-up-by-almost-150-this-year) |
| 149 | +- [FT Opinion: My new year resolution is bitcoin](https://www.ft.com/content/59bb430b-a5b1-4469-b05a-482b951109a2) |
| 150 | +- [BTCPay Server 2024, The Year of Ambassadors](https://blog.btcpayserver.org/bitcoin-2024-the-year-of-ambassadors/) |
| 151 | +- [How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity](https://www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity/) |
| 152 | +- [Crypto may have become boring, but it still isn’t legit](https://www.ft.com/content/c4fd2c69-c69a-49e4-9e93-d687aa801e87) |
| 153 | +- [Woman accused of laundering bitcoin proceeds of £5bn fraud in London trial](https://www.ft.com/content/e73bbbb0-7974-4c8e-a3e8-2817884e35fb?shareType=nongift) |
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