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_posts/2023-07-27-vancouver-socratic-15.md

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 - [Remedy Renovations](https://remedy-renovations.com/)
 - [Shawarma Corner, New Westminster](https://zomi.menu/?shop=497&utm=&table=)
 
-
 ### Today's talk
 
 ### Mailing Lists
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 - [An Update on the Federal Reserve’s Instant Payments Service: FedNow](https://www.clevelandfed.org/collections/speeches/2023/sp-20230712-update-on-the-federal-reserves-instant-payments-service)
 - [The Bank Robbers Who Are Stealing Their Own Money](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-26/lebanon-financial-crisis-leads-people-to-steal-their-own-money)
 
+
 ## Network Data
 
 <!-- ## Research -->
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 - [Satscoffee](https://danielpcostas.dev/en/satoffee-lightning-coffee/)
 - [Introducing the Bull Bitcoin Prime PDF Guide for Sovereign Investors](https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-prime-services-for-bitcoin-investors-pdf-guide)
 - [BlackRock Study Recommends 84.9% Bitcoin Allocation for Optimal Portfolio](https://bitcoinarchive.co/blackrock-bitcoin-allocation-portfolio-84/)
+

_posts/2023-08-24-vancouver-socratic-16.md

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+---
+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2023-08-24 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 016"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/295102113/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/4T7y3AJbaF8ka28Bdgkqh8fqdpvC/crowdfund)
+- BitDevs September 20 (Wednesday)
+- [Lightning Pints at Park Drive](https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-n-beers-vancouver/events/295399390/)
+- [Bitcoin Block Party September 4](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/294307669/)
+
+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)
+
+- [Old Country Pierogi](http://www.oldcountrypierogi.com/), Food Truck
+- [Park Drive](https://www.parkdrive.ca/), Commercial Drive
+- [Honest Pete](https://honesttopete.com/), The Beaumont
+- Master Kebap, Downtown
+- [All Natural Meat](https://www.allnaturalmeatshop.com/), North Vancouver
+- [Gotoshi](https://gotoshi.ca/store-listing/), Household items delivered out of Ontario
+- [Metro Communications](https://www.yelp.ca/biz/metro-communications-burnaby), Business VoIP services
+
+### Today's talk
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Enable Full RBF by default](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28132)
+- [ Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28130)
+- [ wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27877)
+
+#### lightning-dev
+
+- [Onion Message Support merged into Bolt](https://twitter.com/niftynei/status/1686219199813742592)
+- [LND begins to remove Litecoin support](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7867)
+- [ Is Lightning Scaling Bitcoin in a Way Nobody Predicted?](https://blog.bitfinex.com/education/is-lightning-scaling-bitcoin-in-a-way-nobody-predicted/)
+
+<!-- #### dlc-dev -->
+
+#### nostr-dev
+
+- [Payjoin over Nostr in BTCPay](https://github.com/Kukks/BTCPayServer.BIP78/blob/nostr/BTCPayServer.BIP78.Nostr/README.md)
+- [NIP 90, the data vending machine](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/vending-machine/90.md)
+
+#### Optech
+
+- [Lightning for those who haven’t checked in on it in a while](https://medium.com/@viktorbunin/lightning-for-those-who-havent-checked-in-on-it-in-a-while-776a1d8daebe)
+- [Milk Sad](https://milksad.info/)
+- [f2pool launches Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator](https://f2pool.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20505561224089-f2pool-launches-Bitcoin-Transaction-Accelerator)
+- [New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-attack-steals-data-from-keystrokes-with-95-percent-accuracy/)
+- [Chainalysis Investigations Lead Is ‘Unaware’ of Scientific Evidence the Surveillance Software Works](https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/24/chainalysis-investigations-lead-is-unaware-of-scientific-evidence-the-surveillance-software-works/)
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+- [Bitcoin’s role in the ESG imperative](https://advisory.kpmg.us/articles/2023/bitcoin-role-esg-imperative.html)
+
+## 2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+- [Fitch cuts US credit rating to AA+; Treasury calls it 'arbitrary'](https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fitch-cuts-us-governments-aaa-credit-rating-by-one-notch-2023-08-01/)
+- [The Devaluation Run in Emerging Markets Is Just Getting Started](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-12/the-devaluation-run-in-emerging-markets-is-just-getting-started)
+
+## Network Data
+
+<!-- ## Research -->
+
+<!-- ## InfoSec -->
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [BitMEX Research: Drivechains](https://blog.bitmex.com/drivechains/)
+- [Tether Share Attestation](https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1685993811774738432)
+- [Expanding Transparency by Open-Sourcing Liquid's Functionary Code](https://blog.liquid.net/expanding-transparency-the-liquid-networks-functionary-code-is-now-open-source/)
+- [Paypal launches USD stablecoin](https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/crypto/pyusd)
+- [Bitcoin denominated ecash without custodial risk](https://gist.github.com/moonsettler/42b588fa97a1da3ac0adea0dd16dadf2)
+
+### New Releases
+
+- [Coinbase Looks to Add Bitcoin Lightning for Payments](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/08/02/coinbase-looks-to-add-bitcoin-lightning-for-payments/)
+- [StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network](https://github.com/AndySchroder/StaticWire)
+- [Bitcoinize Point of Sale Machine](https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinizepos)
+- [Phoenix 2.0.0 with splicing released](https://twitter.com/nobsbitcoin/status/1691964641994256678)
+- [Bitcoin Search meets ChatGPT](https://chat.bitcoinsearch.xyz/)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [Inside Prague’s Institute of Crypto Anarchy — where they’re plotting to bring down the dollar ](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/06/prague-institute-of-crypto-anarchy-plotting-to-bring-down-the-dollar-.html)
+- [SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says](https://www.ft.com/content/1f873dd5-df8f-4cfc-bb21-ef83ed11fb4d)
+- [Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them](https://www.wired.com/story/sex-workers-crypto-failing-them/)
+

_posts/2023-09-20-vancouver-socratic-17.md

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+---
+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2023-09-20 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 017"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/295663113/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/4T7y3AJbaF8ka28Bdgkqh8fqdpvC/crowdfund)
+- BitDevs September 20 (Wednesday)
+- [Lightning Pints at Park Drive](https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-n-beers-vancouver/events/295399390/)
+- [Bitcoin Block Party September 4](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/294307669/)
+
+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
+[Disco Biscuits](https://discobiscuits.ca/)
+[Plebsters](https://plebsters.com/)
+[Poseidon Greek](https://poseidonrestaurant.ca/)
+[Aceon Data Recovery](https://www.aceondatarecovery.com/)
+Ross Crêpe and Cafe
+[VanLove Sushi](https://vanlove.ca/)
+[Hotro Organic Meats](https://hotro.ca/)
+[La Cantina de Don Porfirio](https://www.instagram.com/donporfiriovan)
+[Marais Tea Co](https://maraisteaco.com/)
+
+
+### Today's talk
+[Start9 Labs releases Stable Diffusion (text-to-image AI) and FreeGPT (chat AI) on StartOS](https://twitter.com/start9labs/status/1704199417329516570)
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+[Smart Vaults - Inheritance planning, social recovery, time locks, etc. using miniscript, taproot and schnoor signatures](https://vimeo.com/860223785/098d070bfe)
+
+[blip-0029](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004089.html): Taproot Asset Protocol Channels
+
+
+#### lightning-dev
+[SimLN](https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-project/sim-ln)
+[Amboss, Coinbase Driving Bitcoin’s Lightning Fast Layer 2 Payments](https://x.com/plebiuseconomus/status/1702398998546620629)
+
+
+
+<!-- #### dlc-dev -->
+
+#### nostr-dev
+
+
+
+#### Optech
+
+
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+[Oman’s Bold Bitcoin Play: $1.1 Billion Investment On Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure](https://www.forbes.com/sites/irinaheaver/2023/08/24/omans-bold-bitcoin-play-11-billion-investment-on-bitcoin-mining-infrastructure/)
+
+[FASB proposes Accounting Standards Update on Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets](https://www.fasb.org/Page/ProjectPage?metadata=fasb-Accounting-for-and-Disclosure-of-Crypto-Assets)
+
+[FASB explainer for those other than accounting nerds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TrOU__rK2M)
+
+[US Judge denies SEC request to inspect Binance.US](https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/us-judge-denies-sec-request-to-inspect-binanceus-202309190220)
+
+[Bitcoin security model is a curve, not a budget or a hashrate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bUpF0wJrxo)
+
+
+## 2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+
+
+## Network Data
+[DoS: Fake Lightning Channels](https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/fake-channel-dos/)
+
+[PayPal Partner Paxos Overpaid $510,750 In The Largest USD Bitcoin Transaction Fee Ever](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/paypal-reportedly-overpaid-510750-in-the-largest-usd-bitcoin-transaction-fee-ever-)
+
+[Phishing Attack on Cloud Provider With Fortune 500 Clients Led to $15M Crypto Theft From Fortress Trust](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/13/phishing-attack-on-cloud-provider-with-fortune-500-clients-led-to-15m-crypto-theft-from-fortress-trust/)
+<!-- ## Research -->
+
+<!-- ## InfoSec -->
+
+## Token Layer
+[ blip-tap: initial bLIP draft for Taproot Asset Protocol channels](https://github.com/lightning/blips/pull/29)
+
+[Ordinals inscription numbers are NOT immutable](https://twitter.com/rodarmor/status/1704204038248747450)
+
+[What is a bitcoin drivechain? (bitcoin twitter's recent focus)](https://decrypt.co/154129/what-is-a-bitcoin-drivechain)
+
+
+### New Releases
+[eNuts is a Cashu wallet for Android and iOS](https://www.enuts.cash/)
+
+[LND v0.17.0-beta](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases)
+
+[GPUtopia | GPU Marketplace](https://gputopia.ai/)
+
+[Bitcoin engraved mugs available from Inkfire Studios](https://www.inkfire.ca/gallery)
+
+
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+[Bitcoin research day 2023](https://www.brd23.com/)
+
+[Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #268: Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2023/09/14/)
+
+
+
+## Miscellaneous
+[My Sofa is a Sidechain](https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPORT/projects/bitcoin/posts/2015-06-10-my-sofa-is-a-sidechain/main.html)
+
+