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+type: socratic
+date: "2023-10-31 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 018"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/296310670/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/37QCBufiLtDMq6mo9dbpZtZY37hr/crowdfund)
+
+We now post the links to this seminar in advance! [Check out our Github issues for the latest.](https://github.com/VancouverBitdevs/VancouverBitdevs.github.io/issues)
+
+#### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again
+
+[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/calendar)
+
+#### Spend your sats in Vancouver
+
+[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map)
+
+### New merchants
+
+No new merchants in October?
+
+<!-- ### Today's talk -->
+
+### Happy Whitepaper Day!
+
+- 31 October 2008
+- Announced to the Cypherpunk Mailing List
+- Celtic festival of Samhain, death and renewal
+- All Saints Day was set to coincide with Samhain in 835
+- 31 October 1517 Martin Luther proclaims the Reformation
+- Separation of Church/Money and State
+- Martin Luther was excommunicated on 3 January 1521
+- 131 years until there was peace
+- 131 years until the last Bitcoin is mined
+
+- [Satoshi's Vision]([Satoshi's Vision](https://github.com/JeremyRubin/satoshis-version))
+- [The Story Behind the Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin](https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/)
+- [static const int64 COIN = 1000000;](https://github.com/chillininvt/OriginalBitcoin/blob/main/main.h#L34)
+- [int64 nSubsidy = 10000 * CENT;](https://github.com/chillininvt/OriginalBitcoin/blob/main/main.cpp#L654)
+- [const unsigned int nTargetTimespan = 30 * 24 * 60 * 60;](https://github.com/chillininvt/OriginalBitcoin/blob/main/main.cpp#L662)
+- [const unsigned int nTargetSpacing = 15 * 60;](https://github.com/chillininvt/OriginalBitcoin/blob/main/main.cpp#L655)
+- [The timechain is a tree shaped structure](https://github.com/chillininvt/OriginalBitcoin/blob/23e059927870f84bbf1081953e4edc1e89ead6a1/main.h#L919C44-L919C44)
+
+## bitcoin-dev
+
+- [MEV on Bitcoin has arrived](https://twitter.com/niftynei/status/1705662689639350588)
+- [Covenant tools softfork pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28550)
+- [BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin](https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf)
+- [BitVM Primer](https://github.com/twhit223/bitvm_primer)
+- [Timeout Trees: A Solution To Scaling Lightning Network LSPs](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/timeout-trees-a-solution-to-scaling-lightning-network-lsps)
+- [New BIP: Ordinal Numbers #1408](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1408)
+
+## lightning-dev
+
+- [Phoenix splicing rolls out for all users on iOS and Android](https://x.com/phoenixwallet/status/1708055031398711478)
+- [Instantly simulate real-world Lightning network activity](https://simln.dev/)
+- [Replacement Cycling Attacks on the Lightnin Network](https://github.com/ariard/mempool-research/blob/2023-10-replacement-paper/replacement-cycling.pdf)
+- [Settings to force anchor channels only that rejects legacy channels](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/8075)
+- [Removing channel reserve for mobile wallet users](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-October/004136.html)
+- [Universal Money Addresses by Lightspark](https://www.lightspark.com/uma)
+
+## Optech
+
+- [MARA mined an invalid block again](https://twitter.com/bitmexresearch/status/1706966754331652164)
+- [Mempool almost cleared](https://twitter.com/mempool/status/1708618638800945395)
+- [Wallet Fingerprints: Detection & Analysis](https://ishaana.com/blog/wallet_fingerprinting/)
+- [Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto](https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/)
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+
+
+## 2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+- [Bank of Canada cashless survey](https://twitter.com/bankofcanada/status/1707772358793077050)
+- [Opinion: Washington is quickly hurtling toward a debt crisis](https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/opinions/federal-debt-interest-rates-riedl/index.html)
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [Out of 763,130 Lightning payments made by Wallet of Satoshi, 684,120 had no fees](https://x.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1711208926727885153)
+- [The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years](https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/)
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [Runes](https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/)
+- [BRC-20 griefing attack](https://twitter.com/rodarmor/status/1705369258426036526)
+- [Peter Todd's Drivechains Critique](https://petertodd.org/2023/drivechains)
+- [Lightning Labs Rolls Out Taproot Assets Mainnet Alpha](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/lightning-labs-rolls-out-taproot-assets-mainnet-alpha)
+
+## New Releases
+
+- [Send satograms over the Lightning Network](https://satogram.xyz/)
+- [LN+ Liquidity Pool](https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/433)
+- [Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Server Now Easier to Integrate with React Apps](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-payment-service-btcpay-server-now-easier-to-integrate-with-react-apps)
+- [GPU marketplace open-sources codebase and launches 1 BTC bounty](https://gputopia.ai/blog/opening)
+- [LNbits Node Manager released](https://x.com/callebtc/status/1709883171968291017)
+- [LND Speed Run 🏃](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9svP0Fpp1ZQ)
+- [Premise announces partnership with Neutronpay](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/premise-announces-partnership-neutronpay-premier-110700552.html)
+- [A bathhouse that mines Bitcoin](https://x.com/parismartineau/status/1716862159542493295)
+- [Autozaps in Zapple Pay](https://x.com/benthecarman/status/1716920700081254840)
+- [The ZEUS v0.8.0 open beta is here](https://blog.zeusln.com/zeus-v0-8-0-open-beta/)
+
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [Spotlight: Langley Bitcoin Meetup](https://twitter.com/joshuafriedeman/status/1707786119331406195)
+- [What Bitcoin Did: Decentralise Everything with William Casarin](https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/decentralise-everything)
+- [Unlocking Bitcoin: Bridging Gaps for Mainstream Adoption with Adam Soltys, Coinos Founder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rljilNANCw)
+
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/17/crypto911.html)
+- [Inside a $30 Million Cash-for-Bitcoin Laundering Ring in the Heart of New York](https://www.404media.co/inside-a-30-million-cash-for-bitcoin-laundering-ring-in-the-heart-of-new-york/)
+- [They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird](https://www.wired.com/story/unciphered-ironkey-password-cracking-bitcoin/)
+- [Ray Youssef: The Ray Narrative](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/the-ray-narrative)