It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #20!

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

See AI generated summaries here.

🧡 Bitcoin

• Brooklyn bathhouse heats water with Bitcoin mining
• Standardisation of an unstructured taproot annex
• On the experiment of the Bitcoin Contracting Primitives WG and marking this community process "up for grabs"

⚡️ Lightning

• Lightning self-payment discussion and LN accounting security disclosure
• Phoenix 3rd gen with channel splicing
• Mutiny Wallet opened to the public
  • How the Voltage LSP Enhances Privacy for Mutiny Wallet Users
• Binance enables Lightning
  • Original post from Binance
• LN Spec Cleanup

🧠 AI

• AI 4 ALL Hackathon Launches
• AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning
• Llama V2 released as open source with commercial use allowed

🔒 Infosec & Privacy

• Minibits released - mobile Cashu (chaumian e-cash) wallet for Android
• Whirlpool - testnet experiment to coinjoin over decentralized Soroban communications layer

🟣 Nostr

• First Wave of Nostr Grants