It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #18!

What is a Socratic Seminar?

Inspired by other BitDevs meetups around the US, our Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing and lively discussion.

1. Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
2. The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
3. Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
4. We go to a bar afterwards

Topics

🧡 Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Core v25.0 released
• Lava launches lava loans protocol
• Mempool.space announces transaction accelerator
• Interactive payment batching with PayJoin
• Reinventing the Mempool

⚡️ Lightning

• LNDK gives LND support for onion messages
• Alex and Chad win 2nd place at PlebFi with "Last Pay Wins"
• 10101 announces self-custodial lightning wallet with trading functionality
• Polar 2.0 released with taproot assets support
• LSPSpec group seeking feedback
• Strike launches redesigned app with support for more countries, lightning address, and nostr

2️⃣ Other Layer 2's

• The Enigma Network
• Ark

🟣 Nostr + Web5

• Munstr (MuSig + Nostr) - using nostr to coordinate multisig transactions
• TBD launches Web5 toolkit
• LNBits Nostr market