Socratic Seminar 11

2022-12-15

Housekeeping

• What is a Socratic Seminar?
• Questions are encouraged, including basic ones! Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar here.
• No photos, videos, or recordings.
• Chatham House Rule: You are free to share discussions and learnings from Boston BitDevs, but do not reveal the source of the information. Do not share the identity of any of the speakers or participants.

Full RBF

• Introductory Notes by Gloria Zhao
• Mailing list post on mempool policy consistency by AJ Towns
• Response Against by John Carvalho
• Bitcoin Core PR #26438 (now closed) PR to remove the mempoolfullrbf option
• Bitcoin Optech Twitter Spaces Recording
• Bitcoin Core PR #26525 - open PR to remove the mempoolfullrbf option

Variety in Bitcoin Implementations

• Burak breaks more stuff (original tweet)
• Follow up: It was an issue in older versions of rust-bitcoin which caused many more projects than just LND to be impacted
• Background Reading: Peter Todd's thoughts on multiple implementations
• Greg Maxwell's thoughts regarding a 'Bitcoin Spec'

bitcoin-dev

• MuSig2 BIP
• P2EP Lightning Payjoins
• Package Relay

lightning-dev

• Mitigating Channel Jamming with Reputation Credentials: a Protocol Sketch

Regulation

• The Digital Asset Anti5 Money Laundering Act of 2022 by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Roger Marshall (R-KS)
• Coin Center's Response