Clark Moody & Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #16

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

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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 Clark Moody. He develops and maintain a popular web-based Bitcoin dashboard that many use to gather the latest information on the Bitcoin network including mining difficulty, fees, and even the Lightning network.

Guest Speakers

Clark Moody on twitter
Bitcoin Dashboard

Socratic Seminar

News

• Bitcoin mempool clears as hash rate bounces
• Paypal to add Crypto
• Lightning Pool Launched
• Nunchuk, new open-source multisig desktop wallet announced
• Podcast with Lightning Network
• GitHub takes down repository at the request of the RIAA
• ‘Slippery slope’ as new Bitcoin mining pool censors transactions
• DMG subsidiary Blockseer Launches Bitcoin Mining Pool Focused on ...OFA Compliance
• River Hardware Wallet Account
• Iran Amends Law to Allow Imports to Be Funded With Cryptocurrency
• Damien’s review of Bitcoin Bounce and Turbo ‘84 lightning games

Research

• CVE-2020-26895 LND
• Descriptors in the Wild

Bitcoin PRs ₿

• wallet: Migrate legacy wallets to descriptor wallets (core 19602)

Lightning PRs ⚡

• Add a commitment feerate parameter to multifundchannel (core 4139)