Boston Bitcoin Devs

Socratic Seminar 25

2024-09-24

Housekeeping 🧹

Topics

Fee spike due to babylon launch

Bitcoin companies shutting down

Silvergate Executive confirms they were pressured out of business, Nic Carter describes it as "murder, not suicide"

Verifying STARKS in Script

FROST Signing BIP

FROST DKG BIP

Bitcoin Core's migration to the CMake buildsystem

Dark Skippy

Efficient Multi input grinding for CAT covenants

Flag Day Activation based on nlocktime signaling

Proving UTXO ownership

Bitcoin as a random beacon

Bip300/301 CUSF

Puzzle #66 solved and stolen(?)

Pleblab startup day

Strike Tx at Pleblab

Security

Intel SGX Fuse Key0 compromised

NBitcoin Musig2 nonce reuse

Research

CSV shield

Optimizing Big Integer Multiplication on Bitcoin: Introducing w-windowed Approach

Permissionless Verifiable Information Dispersal (Data Availability for Bitcoin Rollups)

Software Releases

Proton Mail Launches Wallet

Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix

New Ark Implementation

Ashigaru v1.0.0: Privacy-first Mobile Bitcoin Wallet

Citrea Launches