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| 1 | ++++ |
| 2 | +title = "Socratic Seminar 13" |
| 3 | +date = 2025-06-19 |
| 4 | ++++ |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +Housekeeping |
| 7 | +------------ |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +- This meetup is generously sponsored by [Spiral](https://spiral.xyz/)! |
| 10 | +- Questions are encouraged, including basic ones! |
| 11 | +- Socratic Seminars are held under the [Chatham House Rule](https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/chatham-house-rule): share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it. |
| 12 | +- For the privacy of other attendees, please refrain from taking photographs of other people without their permission. |
| 13 | +- Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused. |
| 14 | +- The reading list covers May 16th to June 19th. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +News |
| 17 | +---- |
| 18 | +- [Block’s bitcoin checkout goes live in Vegas, a significant step in making it ‘everyday money’](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/block-bitcoin-checkout-vegas.html) |
| 19 | +- [Block to roll out bitcoin payments on Square](https://block.xyz/inside/block-to-roll-out-bitcoin-payments-on-square) |
| 20 | +- [Square Flies the Flag for the Lightning Network With 9.7% Yield on Bitcoin Holdings](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/29/square-flies-the-flag-for-the-lightning-network-with-97-yield-on-bitcoin-holdings) |
| 21 | +- [Block Announces Bitcoin Business Stack, Makes Historic Lightning Payments Push at Bitcoin 2025](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/block-announces-bitcoin-business-stack-makes-historic-lightning-payments-push-at-bitcoin-2025) |
| 22 | +- [Amboss Launches Rails, a Self-Custodial Bitcoin Yield Service](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/amboss-launches-rails-a-self-custodial-bitcoin-yield-service) |
| 23 | +- [Steak ‘n Shake Now Accepting Bitcoin via Lightning Network Across U.S. Locations](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/steak-n-shake-now-accepting-bitcoin-via-lightning-network-across-u-s-locations) |
| 24 | +- [Steak ‘n Shake Reveals Bitcoin Payment Success at Bitcoin 2025 Conference](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/steak-n-shake-reveals-bitcoin-payment-success-at-bitcoin-2025-conference) |
| 25 | +- [1.5 Million Users to Access Bitcoin’s Lightning Network on Xverse thanks to Sati](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/1-5-million-users-to-access-bitcoins-lightning-network-on-xverse-thanks-to-sati) |
| 26 | +- [Ark Labs Launches Arkade, a New Native Operating System Using Bitcoin](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/ark-labs-launches-arkade-a-new-native-operating-system-using-bitcoin) |
| 27 | +- [Spark Partners with Breez to Launch Bitcoin-Native SDK for Lightning Payments](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/spark-partners-with-breez-to-launch-bitcoin-native-sdk-for-lightning-payments) |
| 28 | +- [Magic Eden Partners with Spark to Bring Fast, Cheap Bitcoin Settlements](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/magic-eden-partners-with-spark-to-bring-fast-cheap-bitcoin-settlements) |
| 29 | +- [Save Our Wallets Launch](https://saveourwallets.org) |
| 30 | +- [BRCA Included in market structure bill, the Clarity Act](https://x.com/TheBlueMatt/status/1931875497388245195) |
| 31 | +- [Bitcoin Development Fund 5 year Report](https://hrf.org/latest/bitcoin-development-fund-5-year-report/) |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +Discussion |
| 34 | +---------- |
| 35 | +#### [Delving Bitcoin](https://delvingbitcoin.org/) |
| 36 | +- [Latency and Privacy in Lightning](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/latency-and-privacy-in-lightning/1723) |
| 37 | +- [Research Update: A Geometric Approach for Optimal Channel Rebalancing](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/research-update-a-geometric-approach-for-optimal-channel-rebalancing/1768) |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +#### [Bitcoin Optech Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/) |
| 40 | +- N/A |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +#### Miscellaneous |
| 43 | +- N/A |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Releases |
| 46 | +-------- |
| 47 | +- [LND v0.19.0-beta](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.19.0-beta) |
| 48 | +- [LND v0.19.1-beta](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.19.1-beta) |
| 49 | +- [LDK v0.1.4 - May 23, 2025 - "Careful Validation of Bogus States"](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/releases/tag/v0.1.4) |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +bLIPs & BOLTs |
| 52 | +------------- |
| 53 | +- [Clarify Mandatory Field Length Requirements and Add Note on Low R Signatures in BOLT 11](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1243) |
| 54 | +- [Path queries (feature 66/67)](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1259) |
| 55 | +- [Add recommendations for receiver-side random delays](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1263) |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +Noteworthy PRs |
| 58 | +-------------- |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +### [Core Lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning) |
| 61 | +- [Peer storage enable](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8140) |
| 62 | +- [gossipd: check for existing channel announcement before sigcheck](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8322) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +### [eclair](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/) |
| 65 | +- [Attributable failures](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3065) |
| 66 | +- [Refactor some closing helper functions](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3089) |
| 67 | +- [Add low-level taproot helpers](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3086) |
| 68 | +- [Stricter batching of commit_sig messages on the wire](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3083) |
| 69 | +- [Cleaner handling of HTLC settlement during force-close](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3090) |
| 70 | +- [Watch spent outputs before watching for confirmation](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3092) |
| 71 | +- [Rework closing channel balance computation](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3096) |
| 72 | +- [Parse offers and pay offers with currency](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3101) |
| 73 | +- [Add attribution data to UpdateFulfillHtlc](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3100) |
| 74 | +- [Remove non-final transactions from XxxCommitPublished](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3097) |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +### [LDK](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning) |
| 77 | +- [Pass supported_protocols to LSPS0 (fix ListProtocols support)](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3785) |
| 78 | +- [Read ChannelManager even if we have no-peer post-update actions](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3790) |
| 79 | +- [Introduce interactive signing state flags for funded states.](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3637) |
| 80 | +- [Do not dip into the funder's reserve to cover the two anchors](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3796) |
| 81 | +- [LSPS2: Fail (or abandon) intercepted HTLCs if LSP channel open fails](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3712) |
| 82 | +- [Introduce Flow utilities and OffersMessageFlow implementation](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3639) |
| 83 | +- [LSPS2: Add error handling events for failed client requests](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3804) |
| 84 | +- [Allow setting a payer_note on pay_for_offer_from_human_readable_name](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3808) |
| 85 | +- [Channel Establishment for V3 Channels](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3792) |
| 86 | +- [Implement start_batch message batching](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3793) |
| 87 | +- [Separate auxiliary HTLC data from holder commitment transaction](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3774) |
| 88 | +- [Peer Storage Feature – Part 2](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3623) |
| 89 | +- [Fix possible dust HTLC sweep tx when feerate remains unchanged during a bump](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3832) |
| 90 | +- [Add missing pending FundingScope checks](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3811) |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +### [lnd](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd) |
| 93 | +- [[graph-work-side-branch]: side branch for graph work](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9692) |
| 94 | +- [lnwire: add lnwire.OpaqueAddr case in WriteElement for channel back-ups](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9856) |
| 95 | +- [feat(lncli): Add --route_hints flag to sendpayment and queryroutes](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9721) |
| 96 | +- [graph/db: init SQLStore caches and batch schedulers](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9853) |
| 97 | +- [sqldb+graph/db: add node related tables and implement some node CRUD](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9866) |
| 98 | +- [sqldb: re-usable TxOptions and NoOpReset](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9873) |
| 99 | +- [sqldb+graph/db: add channel tables and implement some channel CRUD](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9869) |
| 100 | +- [protofsm: add ConfMapper to allow conf attribute projection for new events](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9725) |
| 101 | +- [protofsm: add option to allow conf resp to return full block](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9726) |
| 102 | +- [accessman: remove restrictions on protected/temporary peers](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9876) |
| 103 | +- [Add the option on path creator to specify the incoming channel on blinded path](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9127) |
| 104 | +- [lnrpc: add HtlcIndex to ForwardingEvents](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9813) |
| 105 | +- [multi: explicitly define InboundFees in ChannelUpdate and ChannelEdgePolicy](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9897) |
| 106 | +- [graph/db: only fetch required info for graph cache population](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9923) |
| 107 | +- [lnrpc: add incoming/outgoing channel ids filter to forwarding history request](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9356) |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +Security |
| 110 | +-------- |
| 111 | +- [Full-Disclosure: CVE-2025-27586 "No Santa Claus under the Lightning Sun"](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/-UCeC6Ulvls) |
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