Merge pull request #30 from VancouverBitdevs/2023-05-25-vancouver-socratic-13

2023 05 25 vancouver socratic 13

Author: Liongrass

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+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2023-05-25 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 013"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/293285511/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/1Chngwii4XMnueujJpWk78fMe75/crowdfund)
+- [Node Academy](https://www.nodeacademy.org/) in full swing, check out the guides if you want to follow along!
+- BitDevs June 22
+
+#### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again
+
+[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/events)
+
+#### Spend your sats in Vancouver
+
+[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map)
+
+- [Buying Bitcoin in Canada](https://krisconstable.com/buying-bitcoin-in-canada-in-2023/)
+
+### Today's talk
+
+OKJodom: Fedimint
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Bug in bitcoin-core that cause high CPU consumption and orphans?](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27623)
+- [Commentary](https://twitter.com/rob1ham/status/1656726867137658888)
+- [ARK protocol (formerly TBDXXX) is being teased](https://github.com/fiksn/awesome-ark/blob/master/explained.md)
+- [ARK announcement](https://burakkeceli.medium.com/introducing-ark-6f87ae45e272)
+- [Formosa: Improving BIP39](https://github.com/Yuri-SVB/formosa)
+- [Nutminer – an ecash-based Bitcoin mining pool simulation built with Cashu](https://stacker.news/items/178510)
+- [Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet](https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/fake-trezor-hardware-crypto-wallet/48155/)
+- [Ledger Recover](https://www.ledger.com/recover)
+- [Ledger Recover: A Message From Pascal Gauthier, Chairman & CEO at Ledger](https://www.ledger.com/blog/ledger-recover-a-message-from-pascal-gauthier-chairman-ceo-at-ledger)
+- [ZeroSync: Introducing Validity Proofs to Bitcoin](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021679.html)
+
+#### lightning-dev
+
+- [Submetering electricity with Lightning](http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/)
+- [LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14559)
+- [Draft: HTLC Endorsement to Mitigate Channel Jamming](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1071)
+- [LNDK: Bolt12 support for LND](https://github.com/lndk-org/lndk)
+
+<!-- #### dlc-dev -->
+
+#### nostr-dev
+
+- [Bitcoin transaction relay over nostr](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-May/021700.html)
+
+<!-- ### Optech -->
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+- [Bitcoin and AI for the next million people](https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/building-for-the-next-million-bitcoin)
+- [Central African Republic drops Bitcoin as legal tender](https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/currency/digital-currencies/7956294/car-to-drop-crypto-as-legal-tender)
+- [The Kingdom Of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin For Years](https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/04/30/bhutan-bitcoin-mining-crypto/)
+- [USA: Bitcoin mining tax (DAME)](https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/05/02/cost-of-cryptomining-dame-tax/)
+- [Liechtenstein Plans to Accept Bitcoin for Payments to State, Prime Minister Says: Report](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/05/08/liechtenstein-plans-to-accept-bitcoin-for-payments-to-state-prime-minister-says-report/)
+- [Africans Are Pioneering The Bright, Yet Complicated, Green Future Of Bitcoin Mining](https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/05/24/africans-are-pioneering-the-bright-yet-complicated-green-future-of-bitcoin-mining/)
+
+## 2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+- [Why a Bank of Canada digital dollar would put an end to ‘bank run’ crises](https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/04/29/why-a-bank-of-canada-digital-dollar-would-put-an-end-to-bank-run-crises.html)
+- [Digital Canadian Dollar public consultation by June 19](https://survey.forumresearch.com/SE/1/BCA1/)
+- [Argentina Bans Payment Apps From Offering Bitcoin to Customers](https://decrypt.co/139068/argentinas-central-bank-clamps-down-on-bitcoin)
+
+## Network Data
+
+<!-- ## Research -->
+
+- [Every block with fees > subsidy to date](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13dv1i8/every_block_with_fees_subsidy_to_date/)
+
+<!-- ## InfoSec -->
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [Transaction with zero-amount input and zero-amount output](https://mempool.space/tx/c1e0db6368a43f5589352ed44aa1ff9af33410e4a9fd9be0f6ac42d9e4117151)
+- [Attempt to crash the ordinal explorer](https://twitter.com/super_testnet/status/1654150183448453121)
+- [Bug report for Ordinals](https://github.com/casey/ord/issues/2062)
+- [Taproot Assets via Lightning Labs](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets)
+- [Tapd version 2 is out](https://github.com/lightninglabs/taproot-assets)
+- [Polar version 2 is out with Taproot assets](https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar/releases/tag/v2.0.0)
+- [BRC-21 standard](https://interlay-labs.gitbook.io/brc-21/)
+
+### New Releases
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [TabConf 2023 | Technical Bitcoin Conference](https://2023.tabconf.com/)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [Hamas stops accepting Bitcoin donations](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-armed-wing-announces-suspension-bitcoin-fundraising-2023-04-28/)
+- [Fedi, Inc. Announces Raising 604 BTC in Series A Round](https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedi-inc-announces-raising-17-million-in-series-a-round)
+- [LNBits vulnerability](https://twitter.com/lnbits/status/1654416778804580352)
+- [The Bitcoin Forum](https://blog.bitmex.com/the-bitcoin-forum/)