Socratic Seminar 33

2026-01-22

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-0003 is now "deployed"

• Blockspace overview

Wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core v30.0 and v30.1

• Bitcoin Core issue 34128

• The fix for the bug

CTV activation meeting

BIP-360 update: Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash

Kompaktor: Compacting Bitcoin Payments Into Radical Efficiency

Broadcast own transactions only via short-lived Tor or I2P connections

Silent Payment Output Script Descriptors

Peer Feature Negotiation

Vaults using blind co-signers

OP_CC: A simple introspection opcode to enable cheaper consolidations

Research

Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin

BitVM4? - Argo MAC: Garbling with Elliptic Curve MACs

Misc. / Cultural