Merge pull request #198 from BitDevsNYC/btsea-patch-3

 Add topics for Socratic Seminar 150 (Thursday August 21, 2025)

Author: pinheadmz

_posts/2025-08-21-socratic-seminar-150.md

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 # Presentation
-- [Charmaine Ndolo](https://github.com/cndolo) presents ["Mitigating Network-level Side-Channel Attacks in the Lightning Network"](https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol316-aft2024/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.12/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.12.pdf).
+- [Charmaine Ndolo](https://github.com/cndolo) presents ["Mitigating Network-level Side-Channel Attacks in the Lightning Network"](https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol316-aft2024/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.12/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.12.pdf)
+
+## Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech
+### Mailing Lists
+#### [bitcoin-dev](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev)
+- [(BIP Proposal) Utreexo Nodes](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/W1lxBraKG_E)
+- [Feedbacks on libbitcoinkernel & bitcoin backbone](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/dPxh5G-LrBU)
+- [RGB formal specifciation](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/m26N6C0ATqk)
+- [(ann) FROST Signing for Bitcoin: Demo + Taproot Integration Discussion @ Aug 6 Gordian Call](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/U2Lx8LcleFw)
+
+
+#### [Delving Bitcoin](https://delvingbitcoin.org/)
+- [(Proposal) Bitcoin Deposits: A Zero UTXO Trust-Minimized Lightning Wallet](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proposal-bitcoin-deposits-a-zero-utxo-trust-minimized-lightning-wallet)
+- [Qubic attack on Monero](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/qubic-attack-on-monero)
+- [Confidential Script: Emulate soft forks using stateless TEEs](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/confidential-script-emulate-soft-forks-using-stateless-tees)
+- [Krux: KEF Encryption Format](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/krux-kef-encryption-format)
+- [Sharing block templates](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/sharing-block-templates)
+- [Delving Simplicity Part Ⅰ: Three Fundamental Ways of Combining Computations](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/delving-simplicity-part-three-fundamental-ways-of-combining-computations)
+- [Writing Simplicity Programs with SimplicityHL](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/writing-simplicity-programs-with-simplicityhl)
+- [Changing the minimum relay feerate](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/changing-the-minimum-relay-feerate)
+
+
+### Meetings
+- [Bitcoin PR Review Club](https://bitcoincore.reviews)
+    - [#32489 wallet: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC](https://bitcoincore.reviews/32489)
+
+- Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
+    - [July 31](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-07-31.html#l-180)
+    - [August 7](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-08-07.html#l-174)
+    - [August 14](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-08-14.html#l-153)
+
+- Lightning Specification meeting
+    - [August 11th](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1046](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1277)
+
+### Optech
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/07/25/)
+  - [Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/07/29/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #365](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/01/)
+  - [Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/08/05/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #366](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/08/)
+  - [Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/08/12/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/15/)
+
+
+## Network Data
+- [Antpool and friends mining sub 1sat/vbyte transactions](x.com/mononautical/status/1947530080475091159)
+- [Compact block reconstruction rates fall](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33106#issuecomment-3155627414)
+- [Evaluating usage of the Whirlpool Bitcoin privacy protocol](https://www.dci.mit.edu/posts/coinjoin-timing-questions)
+- [F2Pool mining annex-containing transactions](https://x.com/peterktodd/status/1940070152663421272)
+- [labitbu craze heating up](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1951683985957851367)
+- [MARA](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1953716038883061851) and [ck-pool](https://x.com/ckpooldev/status/1957235824451559746) raise their minrelay back to 1 sat / vbyte
+- [New mainnet-observer chart with transaction feerate distribution](https://x.com/0xB10C/status/1957387237840072902)
+- [Sub 1 sat/byte stale block analysis](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1956073741454336191)
+- [v3 transaction adoption statistics](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1951856672038662524)
+
+
+## CVEs and Research
+### Research
+- [Glock: Garbled Locks for Bitcoin](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/67cfca80708eb505376820af/68a3e174eaff71d197ac4080_glock.pdf)
+- [Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1459)
+- [RGB 1.0 Scalable Consensus For Client-Side Validated Smart Contracts](https://github.com/RGB-WG/yellowpaper/blob/master/rgb-yellowpaper.pdf)
+- [Selfish Mining under General Stochastic Rewards](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20360v2)
+- [Wrapless: The trustless lending protocol on top of Bitcoin](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06064)
+
+### InfoSec
+- [Qubic reorgs Monero Blockchain](https://qubic.org/pr/qubic-overtakes-monero-s-hash-rate-in-live-51-takeover-demo)
+
+
+## Pull Requests and repo updates
+### [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin)
+- [wallet: Remove wallet version and several legacy related functions](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32977)
+- [validation: rename block script verification error from "mandatory" to "block"](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33183)
+- [policy: lower the default blockmintxfee, incrementalrelayfee, minrelaytxfee](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33106)
+- [log: rate limiting followups](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33011)
+- [guix: increase maximum allowed (runtime) GCC to 7](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33178)
+- [net, validation: don't punish peers for consensus-invalid txs](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33050)
+- [Introduce per-txin sighash midstate cache for legacy/p2sh/segwitv0 scripts](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32473)
+- [refactor: CFeeRate encapsulates FeeFrac internally](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32750)
+- [validation: detect witness stripping without re-running Script checks](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33105)
+- [cli: return local services in -netinfo](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31886)
+- [kernel: create monolithic kernel static library](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33077)
+- [allocators: Apply manual ASan poisoning to `PoolResource`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32581)
+- [init: make `-blockmaxweight` startup option debug only](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32654)
+- [test: Slay BnB Mutants](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33060)
+- [test: add assertions to SRD max weight test](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33058)
+- [p2p: TxOrphanage revamp cleanups](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32941)
+- [test: reduce runtime of p2p_opportunistic_1p1c.py](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33048)
+- [package validation: relax the package-not-child-with-unconfirmed-parents rule](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31385)
+- [qa: test that we do not disconnect a peer for submitting an invalid compact block](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33083)
+- [descriptors: MuSig2](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31244)
+- [rpc: add optional blockhash to waitfornewblock, unhide wait methods in help](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30635)
+- [wallet, rpc: add anti-fee-sniping to `send` and `sendall`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28944)
+- [ci: limit max stack size to 512 KiB](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33079)
+- [cluster mempool: add TxGraph work controls](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32263)
+- [(IBD) prevector: store `P2WSH`/`P2TR`/`P2PK` scripts inline](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32279)
+- [RPC: Return `permitbaremultisig` and `maxdatacarriersize` in `getmempoolinfo`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29954)
+- [rpc, wallet: replace remaining hardcoded output types with `FormatAllOutputTypes`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33065)
+- [wallet: Remove `upgradewallet` RPC](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32944)
+- [p2p: rename GetAddresses -> GetAddressesUnsafe](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32994)
+
+
+### [BDK](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk)
+- [`IndexedTxGraph`: Transactions that conflict with relevant txs are also relevant.](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/2008)
+- [chore(bdk-electrum): use new `batch_transaction_get_merkle` API](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/1989)
+- [Detect new mempool txs](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/1988)
+
+
+### [rust-bitcoin](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin)
+- [Fix overflow during *_ceil FeeRate conversions](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4838)
+- [p2p: Add `HeadersMessage` wrapper with useful methods](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4830)
+- [Use CompactSize instead of VarInt](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4790)
+- [Pluralize transaction fields](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4788)
+- [p2p: Allow building a "useless" address](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4778)
+- [p2p: Add a `UserAgent` type](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4736)
+- [Add Arbitary impls for some bip152, bip158 & merkle block types](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4722)
+- [Add Arbitrary impl for BlockHash, TxMerkleNode, and Wtxid](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4720)
+
+
+### [Core Lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning)
+- [Xpay limit parts](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8448)
+- [lightningd: add channel_type to openchannel & openchannel2 hooks.](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8454)
+- [Set custom tlvs to `update_add_htlc` via the `htlc_accepted_hook`](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8433)
+- [cln-bip353: add plugin that fetches payment instructions from human readable addresses](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8362)
+- [Fix ping confusion](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8344)
+- [xpay notify attempts](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8354)
+- [splice: Implement `start_batch`](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8335)
+- [Allow routing by older scids when we splice](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8387)
+- [Cross channel Splice testing](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8363)
+- [Assume option_channel_type](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8389)
+- [Reckless uv installer](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8430)
+
+### [eclair](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/)
+- [Add outgoing reputation](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3133)
+
+
+### [LDK](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning)
+- [#3618 followups + expose async receive feature](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3999)
+- [(LSPS5) Change notification cooldown time to 1 minute, also update docs](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3994)
+- [Consider currently confirmed FundingScope when claiming commitments](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3980)
+- [Always emit bump events, even when fees are sufficient](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/4001)
+- [Introduce `FundingTransactionReadyForSignatures` event](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3889)
+- [Broadcast holder commitment for currently confirmed funding](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3939)
+- [Detect and fail-back monitor-blocked un-forwarded HTLCs at close](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3989)
+- [Support splicing in `ChannelContext::funding_tx_constructed`](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3982)
+- [Ensure partial MPP claims continue to blocks channels on restart](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3928)
+- [Correct post-update action comment on claims from closed chans](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3985)
+- [(Splicing) Tx negotiation during splicing](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3736)
+- [Batch forwarding followup](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3955)
+
+
+### [lnd](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd)
+- [Add `NoopAdd` HTLCs](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9871)
+- [(7) graph/db+autopilot: improve efficiency of autopilot methods that use the ForEachNode/ForEachChannel pattern](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10127)
+- [bugfix payment lifecycle payment attempts](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10125)
+- [wallet: fix imported tapscript address behavior in watch-only mode](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10119)
+- [(6) graph/db: use batch fetching to improve ForEachNode* performance](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10123)
+- [contractcourt+sweep: make anchor inputs exclusive](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10117)
+- [Add deletecanceledinvoice RPC call](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9625)
+- [graph/db: fix potential policy swop](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10114)
+- [Increase the default outgoing bandwidth](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10096)
+- [Fix arbitrator deadlock found in `ResolveContract`](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10108)
+
+
+### [BLIPs](https://github.com/lightning/blips)
+- [Add bLIP 55: Webhook Registration (LSPS5) ](https://github.com/lightning/blips/pull/55)
+
+
+## New Releases
+- [kyoto - light client based on bip 157/158](https://github.com/2140-dev/kyoto/blob/master/doc/DETAILS.md)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+- [BTC++ Insider Edition - Russel O'Connor](https://x.com/btcplusplus/status/1951434124411150450)
+
+## Mining
+- [Bitmain plans US headquarters and assembly line](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/chinese-crypto-giant-plans-first-us-factory-in-trump-era-gambit)
+- [Proto releases new mining rig](https://proto.xyz/blog/posts/proto-rig-and-proto-fleet-a-paradigm-shift)
+
+
+## Miscellaneous
+- [2025 Q2 Spiral Progress Report](https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/2025-q2-spiral-progress-report-5a9)
+- [A survey of bitcoin yield: What's the opportunity cost of Ark liquidity?](https://blog.second.tech/survey-of-bitcoin-yield/)
+- [Block filter design guide](https://rustaceanrob.com/blog/13-cbf-design)
+- [Founders Of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Plead Guilty](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty)
+- [On the privacy of shielded L2s](https://lightco.in/2025/08/12/shielded-l2s/)
+- OpenSats - [Advancements in Developer Libraries](https://opensats.org/blog/advancements-in-developer-libraries), [Thirteenth Wave of Bitcoin Grants](https://opensats.org/blog/thirteenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants)
+- [PayJoin Foundation](https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/the-payjoin-foundation-is-announced)
+- [peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies](https://b10c.me/projects/024-peer-observer/)
+- [Roman Storm found guilt of unlicensed money transmission](https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1953133350421495904)
+- [Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet](https://blog.blockstream.com/simplicity-launches-on-liquid-mainnet/)
+- [Vinteum - Three Years of Building Bitcoin From the Ground Up](https://vinteum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/vinteum-3-years-EN.pdf)
+- [Ziren: GPU-accelerated zero-knowledge infrastructure compiling conventional code into a verifiable MIPS-based execution environment](https://www.zkm.io/blog/ziren-the-hidden-engine)
+- [Ledger offers tools to protect users from MEV](https://support.ledger.com/article/How-to-protect-your-transactions-from-Maximal-Extractable-Value-MEV-attacks)