Nadav Kohen & Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #21

Agenda

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

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Location

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

Details

Join us for our final 2021 Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts, in July we start meeting again in person! This month we have the honor of hosting Nadav Kohen from SuredBits.

Nadav Kohen is a developer at SuredBits and primarily works on Discreet Log Contracts. Now that Taproot has been locked in, Nadav will explore potential use cases and applications that can be built with Schnorr.

Guest Speaker

Nadav Kohen

Socratic Seminar

News

• Taproot activation is locked in
• Incredible thread on Taproot by Murch
• El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law
• LNBits adds split payments
• Bitstamp adds Lightning through Zebedee
• China bans and shuts down miners
• Lightning Pool Statistics

Research

• BIP proposal: Anti-fee-sniping protection with nSequence in taproot transactions to improve privacy for off-chain protocols
• Taproot keys for rust-bitcoin (rust-bitcoin issue #588)
• Proof of reserve for bitcoin in channels (lnd issue #5391)
• Alpha version padawan-wallet looking for testers

Bitcoin PRs ₿

• Basic Taproot signing support for descriptor wallets (core #21365)
• Peer discovery for compact block filters (bdk #378)

Lightning PRs ⚡

• LND release 0.13.0-beta
• Channel Upgrade Support (c-lightning #4532)