Socratic Seminar 40

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

When and Where is the Seminar?

Wednesday, May 14
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Fidelity Investments - Corporate Office
Durham, North Carolina

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 a link to a news article, website, blog post, mailing list post, or PR that you would like to discuss. Feel free to edit and update your comments to add context or new developments.

Remember this is a bitcoin discussion group. Please keep your suggestions narrowly focused. We will only consider topics that are directly related to bitcoin and the bitcoin ecosystem.

To get us started, here is a non-comprehensive list of discussion topics:

• Bitcoin Core
• Soft Fork Proposals
• Lightning Network
• Ecash
• Mining
• Scaling
• Privacy
• Media
• Miscellaneous

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

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Ark

Second - Try Ark on Signet

Privacy

The Evolution of Payjoin

Covenants

BIP draft: OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY

Miscellaneous

bitcoin-dev mailing list cancelled by Google
relevant discussion from the last time this happened
it was restored the next day
CISA Research Paper
Mempool v3.2.0
Lopp - A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
Mempool.space - Block Size Report
BitMEX - Bitcoin’s Duplicate Transactions
Hal Finney speaks

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Covenants

• How CTV+CSFS improves BitVM bridges
  • Twitter thread
  • Delbrag

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Tether is deploying hashrate to OCEAN
https://tether.io/news/tether-to-deploy-hashrate-on-ocean-advancing-decentralized-bitcoin-mining-infrastructure/

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DahLIAS - first full CISA protocol over secp256k1
Jonas Nick twitter announcement

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LNBits 1.0 release
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0

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Spark - stablecoins on statechains
https://docs.spark.money/spark/spark-tldr

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SLICE: Making PPLNS Work for Demand Response
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/slice-making-pplns-work-for-demand-response

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First ever use of the taproot annex on mainnet is...... 🥁

A dickbutt!

https://x.com/mononautical/status/1921180666831499737

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Second - Ark Liquidity Research
https://blog.second.tech/ark-liquidity-research-01/

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bitcoin-dev mailing list: Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions