topic list for socratic 40

Author: vnprc

_posts/2025-05-14-socratic-seminar-40.md

@@ -23,6 +23,41 @@ Please note the meeting location at Fidelity Investments near RTP.
 - thank you to our sponsor [Fidelity Investments](https://www.fidelity.com/)
 - introductions
 
-# Agenda
+# Bitcoin Core
 
-The agenda will be updated closer to the event date. You can browse or suggest topics on this [github issue](https://github.com/TriangleBitDevs/TriangleBitDevs.github.io/issues/37).
+- [bitcoin-dev] [Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/d6ZO7gXGYbQ?pli=1)
+  - [Delving Bitcoin] [Addressing community concerns and objections...](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/addressing-community-concerns-and-objections-regarding-my-recent-proposal-to-relax-bitcoin-cores-standardness-limits-on-op-return-outputs/1697/1)
+  - An excellent example of the process of [Rough Consensus](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282)
+
+# Ark
+- Second - [Ark Liquidity Research](https://blog.second.tech/ark-liquidity-research-01/)
+- Ark Labs - [Exploring Taproot Assets in Ark](https://blog.arklabs.xyz/taproot-assets-in-ark/)
+
+# Privacy
+- [The Evolution of Payjoin](https://payjoindevkit.org/2025/03/18/the-evolution-of-payjoin/)
+- [DahLIAS - first full CISA protocol over secp256k1](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/692.pdf)
+  - Jonas Nick [twitter announcement](https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1912509120835363031)
+
+# Covenants
+- [BIP draft: OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1793)
+- [How CTV+CSFS improves BitVM bridges](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/how-ctv-csfs-improves-bitvm-bridges/1591)
+  - [Twitter thread](https://x.com/robin_linus/status/1908981041450385408)
+  - [Delbrag](https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2025/04/04/delbrag/)
+
+# Mining
+- [Tether is deploying hashrate to OCEAN](https://tether.io/news/tether-to-deploy-hashrate-on-ocean-advancing-decentralized-bitcoin-mining-infrastructure/)
+- [SLICE: Making PPLNS Work for Demand Response](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/slice-making-pplns-work-for-demand-response)
+
+# Miscellaneous
+- [bitcoin-dev mailing list cancelled by Google](https://x.com/SomsenRuben/status/1907566218640269378)
+  - [relevant discussion](https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CABaSBaz9OTSVa1KNk0GOrH3T-kRF_7OPVu0AtpuaFGVB=zhdwQ@mail.gmail.com/) from the last time this happened
+  - [it was restored the next day](https://x.com/SomsenRuben/status/1907704105788645431)
+- [CISA Research Paper](https://hrf.org/latest/cisa-research-paper/)
+- [Mempool v3.2.0](https://github.com/mempool/mempool/releases/tag/v3.2.0)
+- Lopp - [A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics](https://blog.lopp.net/treatise-bitcoin-block-space-economics/)
+- Mempool.space - [Block Size Report](https://research.mempool.space/block-size-report/)
+- BitMEX - [Bitcoin’s Duplicate Transactions](https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-duplicate-transactions/)
+- [LNBits 1.0 release](https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
+- [Spark - stablecoins on statechains](https://docs.spark.money/spark/spark-tldr)
+- The first ever use of the taproot annex on mainnet is...... 🥁 [A dickbutt!](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1921180666831499737)
+- [largest OP_RETURN ever](https://x.com/lifofifo/status/1922695983512588482)