Socratic Seminar 23

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Welcome

Hello Bitcoiners! This is where we'll organize the topics of discussion for our upcoming Socratic Seminar.

Please use this issue to suggest topics that you'd like to see discussed at the seminar. To suggest a topic, simply add a new comment to this issue with the topic title as the comment's title.

As we work through organizing the topics, feel free to edit and update your comments as needed. This will help us keep everything organized and easy to follow.

To help get us started, here are some main topics of discussion that we could consider:

• Bitcoin Core
• Lightning Network
• Scaling
• Privacy
• Media
• Miscellaneous

Remember, this is Bitcoin only, do not post about your favorite clown-coin.

Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to a great seminar!

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Privacy

PR to add payjoin receive to mutiny wallet
MutinyWallet/mutiny-node#820

Lightning

Timeout Trees

John Law timeout trees proposal to batch open channels from an LSP w/ timeout expiry. A promising new proposal to scale LN on-chain.
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004092.html
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/timeout-trees-a-solution-to-scaling-lightning-network-lsps

Replacement Cycling Attack

A new LN attack dropped to pwn your channel peers
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/021999.html
Find a good explainer article with pictures. Maybe this one?
https://medium.com/@satsbridge/lightning-replacement-cycling-attack-explained-45636e41bc6f

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core's new strategy to get big projects done
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr6dh6sl26lptc9rac0jx7u6aanr5e60hmm5239ytxwxx3nvcvf3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skcqghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxxatjwfjkuapwveukjqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj763hv95

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Durabit: A Bitcoin-native Incentive Mechanism for Data Distribution
https://github.com/4de67a207019fd4d855ef0a188b4519c/Durabit/blob/main/Durabit%20-%20A%20Bitcoin-native%20Incentive%20Mechanism%20for%20Data%20Distribution.pdf

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Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Edition
https://dtrt.org/posts/mb3e-announcement/

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Bitcoin-dev Mailing list is moving
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022134.html