Socratic Seminar 31
2025-09-30
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.
Topics
(BIP Proposal) Elliptic Curve Operations for Bitcoin Script
Measuring minrelaytxfee across the Bitcoin network
(BIP Proposal) Block template sharing
(BIP Proposal) Booby Trapped Wallets - Covenant-Only Taproot Outputs
(BIP Proposal) Standard Encrypted Wallet Payload + Standard Encryption Envelope formats
(BIP Proposal) Great Script Restoration
Implications of OP_RETURN changes in upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30.0
(BIP Proposal) Mempool Validation and Relay Policy via User-Defined Scripts
Research
Outperforming Dijkstra on Sparse Graphs: The Lightning Network Use Case
Software Releases
Bitcoin Core 30.0 release candidate is available
Bitcoin Knots 29.1.knots20250903 released
Stratum V2 UniFFI: Language Bindings for SRI
Frigate: experimental Electrum Server testing Silent Payments scanning with ephemeral client keys
Misc. / Cultural
Samourai Wallet Developers Plead Guilty To Unlicensed Money Transmission
Roman Storm Found Guilty of Unlicensed Money Transmission Conspiracy