Location

The event will be hosted at Jenga Leo:

12th Floor WESTPARK TOWERS | Mpesi Ln, Nairobi | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Eleventh Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Bitcoin

MC: Brandon

• New high severity security advisory have been added to Bitcoin Core
  • Disclosure of memory DoS due to headers spam
• Testing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidates (tests)
  • Gloria shares a TRUC example transaction on testnet4 using Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1
• Mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities
• Securely Creating Bitcoin Seed Phrases
• DNS seeding for non-IP addresses
  • Anonymity networks

Mining

MC: TBD

• Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools
• Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sharing

Lightning Network

MC: Isaack

• LND PR - discovery: implement banning for invalid channel anns #9009
• Lightning offline payment
  • Strike enables paying BOLT12 offers
• Core Lightning v24.08: “Steel Backed-Up Channels”
• Kraken Germany Removes Lightning Network Support
• Fixing Lightning Force Closures

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: Brandon

• Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero-knowledge
  • utxozkp
• OP_CAT research fund

Upcoming Events

MC: TBD

• Africa Bitcoin Conference : Dec 9th - 11th, 2024
  • ABC Fellowship, X thread
  • Btrust Developer Day