SuredBits, DLCs, and Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #15

Agenda

7:00 PM Networking (in meeting chat window)
7:15 PM Speaker Presentation
7:45 PM Socratic Seminar
8:45 PM Wrap-up

Sponsor

River Financial - The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin for the long-term investor. Use this link for 2 months of 0 fees: https://river.com/signup?a=PRLBLIOI.

Square Crypto - Helping make Bitcoin a widely used global currency.

Location

ONLINE! This meeting will be held via video conference.
Google Meet Link

Details

Join us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the pleasure of hosting Ben Carmen and Nadav Kohen from SuredBits. Suredbits is a Bitcoin company and one of the driving forces behind developing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC's) for Bitcoin. Ben and Nadav will break down how they work and how this new technology can usher in a new era of multi-sig applications.

Guest Speakers

Ben Carmen on twitter
Nadav Kohen on twitter
Suredbits on twitter
Suredbits

Socratic Seminar

News

• Square buys Bitcoin
• US Patent 7,110,538 has expired
• GLV Endomorphism Improvement Statistics in Bitcoin Core
• Schnorr added to Bitcoin Core
• Coinbase Sponsoring Bittcoin Dev’s
• Bitmex Charged with Money Laundering

Research

• DOS attack of a Lightning Node

Bitcoin PRs ₿

• Only relay Taproot spends if next block has it active (core 20165)
• BIP325: Signet (core 18267)

Lightning PRs ⚡

• Plugin messaging (eclair 1528)
• [ChannelRelay] Prioritize lowest capacity channels (eclair 1539)
• walletrpc: add new PSBT creation+signing RPCs (lnd 4389)
• Updating signet chainparams for the latest PoW fix (c-lightning 4068 and 4078)