Location

The event will be hosted at Nairobi Garage:

DELTA CORNER TOWERS | Delta Corner Rd, 7th | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Seventh 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

• BIPs
• OP_CAT assigned BIP 347
• Assigning BIP Numbers
• BIP Editors Update
• Beta utreexod | Github Link
• Wallet Fingerprints: Detection & Analysis
• List of known wallet fingerprints
• Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
• The Future of Bitcoin Testnet
  • MutinyNet Signet | Github Link
  • Brandon working on multi-signet support

Mining

MC: Simon

• ViaBTC mines the halving block - 40.71 BTC block reward!
  • Epic sat sold for 33.3 BTC
• Bitcoin Mining Pools Have Become Critically Centralized
  • Pools sharing custodian
  • Pools sharing the same block template
  • AntPool & Bitmain Acting as 'a Pool of Pools' - Report
• Braiins Pool Introducing Lightning Payouts
• Block Mining chip update

Lightning Network

MC: Jodom

• Phoenixd released | Github Link
  • LNURL for self-sovereign phoenixd
• Clearing the Paths: A Deep Dive into LND's Pathfinding Mechanism
• What the Drop in Lightning Nodes Means for LN's Future?
• Amboss: All Time LN Nodes
• Mempool: LN Nodes Per Network
• LN x AI
  • LLM Inference APIs with Lightning

Ecash

MC: Jodom

• Fedimint - a community custody protocol using ecash
  • Fedimint Wiki
  • Fedimint on Bitcoin TV
  • Awesome Fedimint
• Cashu
  • Cashu NUTs
  • Multinut Payments
  • Idea: Cashu Gateways
  • Awesome Cashu
• Bitcoin Mints

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: Charles

• Taproot Assets Protocol | Github Link
  • Taproot Assets on Mainnet!
  • awesome-taproot-assets
• BitVM | Github Link
  • BitVM 2: Opening Up The Playing Field

Regulatory

MC: Vlad

• Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses
• Phoenix Wallet exiting the US. Are Lightning nodes Money Service Providers?
• Binance Founder Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison

Extras

MC: Isaack

• The Bitcoin Scholarship
• Bitcoin Holiday Calendar
• MIT Bitcoin Expo '24 recording
• Hackers are threatening to leak World-Check, a huge sanctions and financial crimes watchlist
• Satoshi’s 2014 Email Hack
• Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin
• How to Dictator-Proof Your Money
• Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
• A Primer on Bitcoin Cross-Border Flows: Measurement and Drivers
• Splice Africa is Live!

Upcoming Events

MC: Sharon

• tbDEX Workshop Nairobi May. 28, 2024
• Lightning Development Bootcamp, Nairobi Jun. 10-14, 2024