Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #6

It’s almost time for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #6! 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. Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics Raise your hand… Continue reading Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #6

Diving into tbDEX

Last year, a division of Block (formerly Square) known as TBD54566975 released a whitepaper for a protocol called tbDEX. The goal seems to be to create a decentralized way of exchanging fiat for bitcoin, and vice-versa. They launched the whitepaper in a blog post. For our next reading session, let’s discuss their blog post. This… Continue reading Diving into tbDEX

Topics for Socratic Seminar #4

Here are the topics for Socratic Seminar #4. 🍂 🕵️‍♂️ Secret Guest Native segwit outputs continue to increase RBF usage Darkside Ransomware Preparing for taproot #16: output linking CVE-2021-41591/ CVE-2021-41592 / CVE-2021-41593 “Dust HTLC Exposure Considered Harmful Make descriptor wallets by default Use legacy relaying to download blocks in blocks-only mode Add Single Random Draw… Continue reading Topics for Socratic Seminar #4

Topics for Socratic Seminar #3

Here are the topics we’ll be covering at Socratic Seminar #3. 🎃 Whitepaper Since October 31, 2021 will mark the 13th anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, we will discuss a few key points from the document. If you haven’t read it, you can find it here. Whitepaper (English) Whitepaper (Translations) 👮‍♂️ Regulatory… Continue reading Topics for Socratic Seminar #3