Socratic Seminar #30 Topics

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Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

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Categories:

Events
News
New Work/Research
Bitcoin Projects
Lightning Projects

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regtest-in-a-pod
regtest running in podman (similar to docker).
regtest blog post

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Events

• Wed April 9th, Bitcoin Park: Open House #25 w/ Special Guest Evan Mawarire
• April 11-12, Tysons, VA: OPNEXT

News

• Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 is a release candidate for the next major version of the network’s predominate full node. Please see the version 29 testing guide.
• DMND is launching Stratum v2 pooled mining

Bitcoin Projects

• "Introduce evicted-at/last-evicted timestamps" bdk #1839
• "Add support for pay to anchor outputs" rust-bitcoin #4111

Lightning Projects

• "Implement quiescence protocol" rust-lightning #3588
• "Add support for using last_funding_locked tlv in channel_reestablish" eclair #3007

New Work/Research

• bitcoin-payment-instructions crate from Matt Corallo
• "Hashed keys are actually fully quantum secure" by Martin Habovštiak
• How to safely spend/burn dust?
• "Up-to-date statistics about chain reorganizations"