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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +type: socratic |
| 4 | +date: "2023-04-27 19:00:00" |
| 5 | +title: "Vancouver Socratic 012" |
| 6 | +meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/292670713/ |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Please join us for today's Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsor [Bull Bitcoin](https://www.bullbitcoin.com/). |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Fun fact: Attendees of a socratic seminar are called Elenctics. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +[Soundtrack](https://player.wavlake.com/track/bd2a13fe-437c-4196-a459-e5e9ed527694) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/Rtmw2g9RCtXVYtha1Set4smVmkk/crowdfund) |
| 18 | +- [BTC++](https://btcpp.dev/#agenda) April 28-30 |
| 19 | +- [Node Academy](https://www.nodeacademy.org/) starts Wednesday, May 3 (virtual) |
| 20 | +- [Post-truth Dance Performance](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/post-truth-tickets-554873510607) |
| 21 | +- Bitcoin Pizza Day May 22 |
| 22 | +- BitDevs May 27 |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +#### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/events) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +#### Spend your sats in Vancouver |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map) |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +**New merchants:** |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +- Denman Street, Vancouver: Milano Coffee |
| 35 | +- Yaletown & Gastown, Vancouver: Cocoa Tanning |
| 36 | +- Burnaby Heights, Burnaby: Caffe Artigiano |
| 37 | +- Lynn Valley, North Vancouver: Big Bite Donair |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Reminder: The [CoinOS bounty program](https://twitter.com/VanBitcoiners/status/1623519974131367937)! Get 1,000,000 SAT for signing up a merchant! |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +- [Satmap.app attempts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in/from Canada](https://satmap.app) |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +### Mailing Lists |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +#### bitcoin-dev |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +- [Android Validated Bitcoin Pruned Node ](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui-qml/tree/main/src/qml) |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +#### lightning-dev |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +- [Splicing specifications](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/863) |
| 53 | +- [Splicing mailing list announcement](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-March/003886.html) |
| 54 | +- [Taproot channel transactions](https://ellemouton.com/posts/taproot-chan-txs/) |
| 55 | +- [Update LND now, ask questions later](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.16.1-beta) |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +<!-- #### dlc-dev --> |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +#### nostr-dev |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +- [Twitter -> super app](https://www.pymnts.com/platform-payments/2023/twitter-turns-to-payments-as-ad-revenues-sink/) |
| 62 | +- [Join the Vancouver Bitcoiners Nostr chat](https://www.nostrchat.io/channel/784fa9c1876d186d9efe8f91ceb3d19f5fb94254e8a165167978d79db5e32aee) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +<!-- ### Optech --> |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +## Bitcoinomics |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +- [Backtested YOLO Buy Strategy](https://twitter.com/100trillionusd/status/1650778260442062848) |
| 69 | +- [The Bitcoin Civ Kit](https://github.com/civkit/paper/blob/main/civ_kit_paper.pdf) |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +## 2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +- [First Republic Bank loses US$100 billion in deposits](https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/first-republic-lost-100-billion-in-deposits-in-banking-panic-7e1bd86c) |
| 74 | +- [First Republic shares drop 50%](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/business/first-republic-bank-stock-price.html) |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +## Network Data |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +<!-- ## Research --> |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +- [Up to 86% of a block are inscriptions](https://twitter.com/leonidasnft/status/1646144637944610816) |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +<!-- ## InfoSec --> |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +## Token Layer |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +- [RGB Protocol Announcement](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-April/021554.html) |
| 87 | +- [Bug in inscriptions](https://twitter.com/leonidasnft/status/1645502786413424641) |
| 88 | +- [What the hell are Bitcoin stamps](https://github.com/mikeinspace/stamps/blob/main/BitcoinStamps.md) |
| 89 | +- [soma (Spacechain-inspired Open Market for Assets) released on signet](https://github.com/nbd-wtf/soma) |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +### New Releases |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +- [LitD Lightning Channel Management](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-04-26-litd-release/) |
| 94 | +- [SoftWar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin](https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery/status/1627640858106380290) |
| 95 | +- [Phoenix ships with Tor on iOS](https://twitter.com/phoenixwallet/status/1643268376221872131) |
| 96 | +- [LNBits as a service](https://twitter.com/lnbits/status/1648681629429243905) |
| 97 | +- [litd 0.9.1 is out](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-04-26-litd-release/) |
| 98 | +- [Lightspark launches with streaming sats](https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1648024579309441028) |
| 99 | +- [Bitcoin Beach wallet is now Blink](https://twitter.com/blinkbtc/status/1645905760835223552) |
| 100 | +- [Neutronpay partners with El Salvadorian app DitoBanx](https://twitter.com/neutronpay/status/1651427391062032384) |
| 101 | +- [Lamassu releases the Grândola which can process 8 bills per second](https://twitter.com/lamassubtc/status/1643523975979360256) |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +## Events and Podcasts |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +- [LightningCon Vietnam Videos](https://www.youtube.com/@neutronpay/videos) |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +## Miscellaneous |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +- [AgentGPT for Data Analysis](https://phasellm.com/researchgpt) |
| 110 | +- [Creative Destruction Lab Vancouver](https://creativedestructionlab.com/companies/?location=vancouver) |
| 111 | +- [Bitcoin Whitepaper has been shipping in every copy of MacOS for five years](https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/) |
| 112 | +- [Apple removes original Bitcoin whitepaper from the latest macOS Ventura beta](https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/apple-removes-bitcoin-whitepaper-from-macos/) |
| 113 | +- [We must become barbarians](https://unherd.com/2023/03/we-must-become-barbarians/) |
| 114 | +- [Exit liquidity](https://blog.bitmex.com/exit-liquidity/) |
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