WIP topic list for tabconf 6 lightning seminar

Author: vnprc

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+type: socratic
+title: "TABConf Socratic Session: Lightning Protocol Development"
+meetup: "https://github.com/orgs/TABConf/projects/4/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=81248842&issue=TABConf%7C6.tabconf.com%7C148"
+---
+
+A focused Socratic Seminar on lightning protocol development. Topics will be selected from 
+mailing lists, prominent github repos, network graphs, research papers, vulnerability reports 
+and other sources.
+
+This event will take place at TABConf in Atlanta.
+
+
+### Breez SDK adds support for Nodeless (Liquid) and Native (Greenlight) Implementations
+
+The boys at Breez have done it again! The latest SDK refresh adds a 'nodeless' implementation that stores your balance on the Liquid sidechain. It uses a swap service to send and receive bitcoin or lightning, a model pioneered by Aqua Wallet. In addition, the Breez SDK offers a native lightning implementation built using the lightweight self-custodial Greenlight service for a pure lightning architecture that makes no compromises on the trust assumptions of bitcoin and lightning.
+
+Check out the Blockstream [blog announcement](https://blog.liquid.net/breez-releases-nodeless-sdk-implementation-powered-by-liquid/), Breez [github](https://github.com/breez), [nodeless sdk docs](https://sdk-doc-liquid.breez.technology/), or [native sdk docs](https://sdk-doc-greenlight.breez.technology/) for more information.
+
+
+### BOLT12 Offers Merged
+
+After four long years the BOLT12 Offers spec has been [merged](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/798) into the BOLTs repo. Oh happy day! \o/
+
+BOLT12 offers enable a static lightning invoice that works by communicating invoice parameters through the lightning network using onion messages to anonymously retrieve a BOLT11 invoice. It also uses blinded paths to conceal the endpoint of the lightning route, enabling private and trustless lightning payments. The static address represents a massive usability improvement over ephemeral and interactive BOLT11 invoices. Routing messages through the lightning network removes the need to incorporate a different network stack and thus the need to run a web server, which is approach taken by the LNURL protocol to achieve the same goals.
+
+
+### Miscellaneous
+