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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +type: socratic |
| 4 | +date: "2024-03-26 19:00:00" |
| 5 | +title: "Vancouver Socratic 022" |
| 6 | +meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/299737168/ |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar! |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/4SvV3UckoF4YgbkV24aLtx3cwjrn/crowdfund) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +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) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/calendar) |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- 2nd Vancouver Pleb Walk **28 March 2024** |
| 22 | +- [Halving Party](https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/299220571/) **18 April 2024** |
| 23 | +- April Bitdevs **30 April 2024** |
| 24 | +- [Canadian Bitcoin Conference](https://canadianbitcoinconf.com/) **16-18 May 2024** Discount code: _MEETUP10_ |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +### Spend your sats in Vancouver |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map) |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +#### New merchants |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +[Seven CoinOS bounties still available](https://coinos.io/bounties) |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +<!-- ### Today's talk --> |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +### Today's talk |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +The Halving |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +- [Bitcoin halving code](https://twitter.com/_jonasschnelli_/status/1772037196033528235) |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +## bitcoin-dev |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +- [BIP 21 update proposal](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/revisiting-bip21/630) |
| 45 | +- [BitVM And Its Optimization Considerations](https://medium.com/@Bitlayer/bitvm-and-its-optimization-considerations-007da599d8ac) |
| 46 | +- [BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin](https://bitvm.org/bitvm2) |
| 47 | +- [TLDR by Bitcoin Search](https://tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz/) |
| 48 | +- [Hedgehog: A protocol for asynchronous layer two bitcoin payments](https://stacker.news/items/481321) |
| 49 | +- [Burrow: A federated pool for Hedgehog channels](https://gist.github.com/supertestnet/14addffae669058=a9bb9df2e2608ff7f) |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +## lightning-dev |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +- [What are the Lightning scaling ceilings](https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog/status/1765274730469142546) |
| 54 | +- [Multi-path payments from multiple nodes](https://x.com/callebtc/status/1766116631795662921) |
| 55 | +- [Lightning Network Onion Routing: Preliminaries](https://ellemouton.com/posts/onion-routing-prelims/) |
| 56 | +- [Lightning Network Onion Routing: Sphinx Packet Construction](https://ellemouton.com/posts/sphinx/) |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +## Optech |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +- [Vulnerability Disclosure: Wasting ViaBTC's 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a P2P message](https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/) |
| 61 | +- [Vladimir van der Laan is considering a comeback to Bitcoin](https://laanwj.github.io/2024/03/19/finally.html) |
| 62 | +- [Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys](https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +## Bitcoinomics |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +- [Waiting for confirmation: a series about mempool and relay policy](https://bitcoinops.org/en/blog/waiting-for-confirmation/) |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +## Network Data |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +- [Bukele publishes El Salvador's Bitcoin Piggy Bank address](https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1768425845163503738) |
| 71 | +- [32 BTC Coinjoin](https://twitter.com/wasabiwallet/status/1770022903024697584) |
| 72 | +- [LQwD selling 10 BTC worth of channels on Amboss Magma](https://twitter.com/ambosstech/status/1770118279815631237) |
| 73 | +- [Who is buying 100 BTC at a time?](https://twitter.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1769008231538381282) |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +## Mining |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +- [Introducing SRI 1.0.0 - the most important milestone in our Stratum V2 journey!](https://stratumprotocol.org/blog/sri-1-0-0/) |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +## Token Layer |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +- [eCash mints kicked out of LNbits demo server](https://twitter.com/lnbits/status/1767842133032235349) |
| 82 | +- [KYC and ecash](https://twitter.com/callebtc/status/1762788463613505596) |
| 83 | +- [Marathon block art?](https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000341cc26cda4af82cd25f7063c448772228cbf2836915b?audit=false) |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +## Regulatory |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +- [Bank of Canada Retail Payments Supervision](https://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/retail-payments-supervision/) |
| 88 | +- [Binance has officially delisted NGN from the P2P market.](https://twitter.com/juwon_adebayo/status/1762857072020922855) |
| 89 | +- [Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria](https://www.wired.com/story/binance-top-investigator-detained-nigeria/) |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +- [New York Community Bank Tries to Reassure Markets After $1 Billion Rescue](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/new-york-community-bank-rescue-stock.html) |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +## New Releases |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +- [Mutiny Wallet now available on iOS and Android](https://twitter.com/mutinywallet/status/1765437625710588356) |
| 99 | +- [Point of Sale system combines Bitcoin and card payments](https://twitter.com/stromens/status/1770530415494775065) |
| 100 | +- [Phoenixd: A lightning server](https://phoenix.acinq.co/server) |
| 101 | +- [Sulu launches L402 Bitcoin price API](https://twitter.com/sulusolutions/status/1772587359655321617) |
| 102 | +- [Fedi Bravo is Here](https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedi-bravo-is-here) |
| 103 | +- [Axiom’s $1.5M Bridge Round for Neutronpay Expands LN in Asia](https://bitcoinnews.com/pr/axiom-capital-bridge-round-neutronpay/) |
| 104 | +- [ChatGPT4 you can pay with sats](https://twitter.com/MattAhlborg/status/1772274388420706451) |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +## Events and Podcasts |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | +- [Inside Costa Rica's Secret Bitcoin Community](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=l3c8l4rgp6s) |
| 109 | +- [Coinos: A Simple Solution for Merchant Adoption](https://fountain.fm/episode/WqNo50bFs57CS2Wippes) |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +## Miscellaneous |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +- [Bitcoin Is Trumping Dollars for Many Inflation-Weary Argentines](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-19/bitcoin-gains-dim-argentines-dollar-refuge-with-276-inflation) |
| 114 | +- [The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul](https://www.ft.com/content/0bc35bea-8a7d-4e0e-9406-64b480e03631) |
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