Location

The event will be hosted at Nairobi Garage:

Pinetree Plaza | Kaburu Drive, Nairobi | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Ninth 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

• 10 (now fixed) vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 0.21.0
  • Brink Devs on Vulnerability disclosures
• ChillDKG: Distributed Key generation for FROST
  • Optech discussion
• 0xB10C weird bitcoin transaction
  • The puzzle revealed
• URL-based transaction broadcast specification
• Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix
  • discussed: the future of Bitcoin Testnet
• Silent Payments is shipping!
  • BlueWallet adds silent payment send support
  • First silent payment tx signed by a hardware waller : BitBox02

Mining

MC: Simon

• Bitcoin Core #30200 introduces a new Mining interface
• BMM 100 Mini Miner announced
• Real-time Stratum visualization tool released
  • the code
  • the research
• A Bitaxe Has Mined Block 853742!
  • Block 853742

Lightning Network

MC: Jodom

• BOLT12 is shipping!
  • Phoenix supports BIP-353 addresses
  • ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support
• Optional channel_update field in failure onion messages
  • BOLT #1173
• Adding a BOLT11 invoice field for blinded paths
• How to Use Boltz Client's Autoswap to Automate Your Lightning Liquidity Management
• Polar v3.0.0 released

Ecash

MC: Jodom

• Fedimint: reduce confirmation target from 10 blocks to 1 when withdrawing funds
• Fedimint: client RPC
  • and then fedimint typescript bindings?...
• Cashu: binary-encoded tokens
• Cashu: v1.0.0 typescript client released

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: You / Random

• Taproot Assets on Lightning
• Hacker News reaction to an L402 post
• Setting up a Bitcoin payment addess
  • One address for BOLT12 and for Silent Payments. Wins!
• Statechains are coming: Statechainjs by SuperTestnet
  • watch this guy (wizard) work

Extras

MC: Isaack

• DLCs implemented on Cashu
• Security: regreSSHion vulnerability and how it affects funds in your bitcoin/lightning node
• Idea: Instantly top-up under-funded lightning channels with ecash
• Policy Report on the energy impacts of AI and Bitcoin mining
  • X thread
• Proton launches a Bitcoin, Lightning wallet

Upcoming Events

MC: Sharon

• Bitcoin 2024, Nashville: July 25th - 27th, 2024
• BITSACCO pilot announcement : August 3rd, 2024
• Africa Bitcoin Conference : Dec 9th - 11th, 2024
  • ABC Fellowship, X thread