In a joint effort between BitDevs NYC, Triangle Bitdevs, and Miami BitDevs, we are hosting our 17th Socratic Seminar on the day before the Bitcoin 2023 conference.

A special thanks to our sponsors Bitcoin Builders Conference, CardCoins, Wolf, Reactor, Frontier Fund, and BitBasel for food, beverage and event space.

Please join us for a great discussion. If you’ve never been to a Socratic Seminar before, please learn about the event format here.

• Peer storage of lightning channel backups
• IFTTT tool for bitcoin transactions
• Handcrank - drivechain proposal with no soft fork
• Mercury Wallet releases Mercury Node, a lightweight bitcoin lightning node
• CivKit - A P2P Electronic Free Market
• BIP345 OP_VAULT - A covenant proposal purpose-built to enable vaults on bitcoin
• ZeroSync - New project to enable rapid bootstrapping of a bitcoin full node
• Floresta - a Utreexo-powered Electrum Server implementation
• A Proof of Liabilities Scheme for Ecash Mints
• Nutminer – an ecash-based Bitcoin mining pool simulation built with Cashu
• libsecp256k1 0.3.2 - fixes a “constant-timeness” issue in the ECDH implementation
• Increased Stale Rate
• Review and Analysis of Fake Trezor Wallet
• Standardness Policy Zoo
• Bitcoin CTV and Covenants
• Off-by-One Error in Ordinals