Socratic Seminar 39

[vnprc]

Welcome

Hello Bitcoiners! This is where we'll organize the topics of discussion for our upcoming Socratic Seminar.

Please use this issue to suggest topics that you'd like to see discussed at the seminar. To suggest a topic, simply add a new comment to this issue with the topic title as the comment's title.

As we work through organizing the topics, feel free to edit and update your comments as needed. This will help us keep everything organized and easy to follow.

To help get us started, here are some main topics of discussion that we could consider:

• Bitcoin Core
• Lightning Network
• Scaling
• Privacy
• Mining
• Ecash
• Politics

Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to a great seminar!

[vnprc]

https://grid.orange.surf/

One useful view on block template centralization from B10c
https://grid.orange.surf/?metric=miners&minerGroups=AntPool+%26+friends%3Ared%3AAntPool%2CBTC.com%2CBinance+Pool%2CWhitePool%2CSECPOOL%2CLuxor%7COther%3Agreen%3ASBI+Crypto%2COCEAN%2CMARA+Pool%2CF2Pool%2CFoundry+USA%2CViaBTC&ref=b10c.me

I would draw the lines this way
https://grid.orange.surf/?metric=miners&minerGroups=AntPool+%26+friends%3Ared%3AAntPool%2CBTC.com%2CBinance+Pool%2CWhitePool%2CSECPOOL%2CLuxor%7CFoundry%3Aorange%3AFoundry+USA%7COther%3Agreen%3AViaBTC%2CSpiderPool%2CMARA+Pool%2CF2Pool&ref=trianglebitdevs.org

[vnprc]

Mining

Decentralized Coordination Free Mining Pools

[vnprc]

Ecash

Ecash mints funded with Spillman channels: The ultimate nodeless Lightning wallet

[vnprc]

Miscellaneous

A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
Block Size Report
Hal Finney Speaks

[vnprc]

DEMAND pool launches
https://blockspace.media/insight/stratum-v2-pool-dmnd-launches-announces-raise/

[vnprc]

VLS greenlight case study
https://vls.tech/posts/greenlight-case-study/

[vnprc]

LDK: Announcing Versioned Storage Service (VSS)
https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/ldk-announcing-versioned-storage

[vnprc]

The Evolution of Payjoin
https://payjoindevkit.org/2025/03/18/the-evolution-of-payjoin/

[vnprc]

Second launches signet ark client
https://blog.second.tech/try-ark-on-signet/

[vnprc]

CISA Research Paper
https://hrf.org/latest/cisa-research-paper/

[johnny9]

New tracking PR for IBD speedup work in Core. I've been surprised by some of the recent gains they've made.
bitcoin/bitcoin#32043

For instance the following appears to have been a 30% improvement to pruned nodes (released with v28)
bitcoin/bitcoin#28280

And this config change offers up to 30% improvement with certain lower memory configurations as well (recently merged)
bitcoin/bitcoin#30039

IBD taking less than 6 hours is becoming a reality.

[vnprc]

Bitcoin's Duplicate Transactions
https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-duplicate-transactions/

[vnprc]

Braiins Open Sources the BCB100 control board
https://x.com/BraiinsMining/status/1904601547855573458

[johnny9]

The software isn't open source

[johnny9]

bitcoin/bips#1800
Consensus cleanup BIP PR

[vnprc]

CCV BIP draft
bitcoin/bips#1793

[vnprc]

PR merged! cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph
bitcoin/bitcoin#31363

[vnprc]

SRI 1.3.0
https://github.com/stratum-mining/stratum/releases/tag/v1.3.0

[vnprc]

BIP 777 GPR - Great Poker Restoration
bitcoin/bitcoin#32181

[vnprc]

bitcoin dev mailing list cancelled by google
https://x.com/SomsenRuben/status/1907566218640269378

relevant throwback thursday: https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CABaSBaz9OTSVa1KNk0GOrH3T-kRF_7OPVu0AtpuaFGVB=zhdwQ@mail.gmail.com/

update: it's back up
https://x.com/SomsenRuben/status/1907704105788645431

[vnprc]

Mempool 3.2.0 release
https://github.com/mempool/mempool/releases/tag/v3.2.0

[vnprc]

omg no ecash topics! let's fix that!

Fedimint v0.6.0 - On-Chain for Everyone
BTCPayServer cashu plugin can't find a link, save for next month
Zeus Wallet is integrating cashu

[vnprc]

New solo miner Innopolis Tech based in Tatarstan
https://x.com/mononautical/status/1908776941068697745

[vnprc]

Phoenix Wallet is back in the USA!
https://x.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1909652018207109567