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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +type: socratic |
| 4 | +date: "2024-05-28 19:00:00" |
| 5 | +title: "Vancouver Socratic 024" |
| 6 | +meetup: https://lu.ma/202405-bitdevsca |
| 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/4SzUoqrSBC6UwuRE5xzGyBRKAAUt/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 | +Today's MC: TBD |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/calendar) |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +- [BTCVancity Bitcoin Meetup #012](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/300663514) **30 May 2024** |
| 24 | +- [Powell River Bitcoin](https://lu.ma/cseofqc2) **1 June 2024** |
| 25 | +- [Coded Shadows Book Launch](https://www.straight.com/listings/events/1444813) **5 June 2024** |
| 26 | +- June Bitdevs **25 June 2024** |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +### Spend your sats in Vancouver |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map) |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +#### New merchants |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +- [Medi Spa La Bella](https://medispalabella.com/) |
| 35 | +- [Rize Fitness](https://rizefitness.ca/) |
| 36 | +- [Uno Gelato](https://unogelato.com/) (all three Vancouver locations!) |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +<!-- ### Today's talk --> |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +### Today's talk |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +Joule |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +## bitcoin-dev |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +- [Silent Payments: Privacy-preserving static addresses for Bitcoin.](https://silentpayments.xyz/) |
| 47 | +- [SNARKnado: A practical, round-efficient SNARK verifier on bitcoin](https://www.alpenlabs.io/blog/snarknado-practical-round-efficient-snark-verifier-on-bitcoin) |
| 48 | +- [Trust wallet forces users to reuse addresses](https://community.trustwallet.com/t/removal-of-the-auto-change-address-feature/155623) |
| 49 | +- [The Great Script Restoration proposal](https://twitter.com/reardencode/status/1788074956225651060) |
| 50 | +- [First utreexo client available in beta](https://github.com/utreexo/utreexod) |
| 51 | +- [Bluematt: Bitcoin's Precarious Position](https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/05/11/bitcoins-precarious-position/) |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +## lightning-dev |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +- [BOLT12 Has Arrived](https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/bolt12-has-arrived/) |
| 56 | +- [First Taproot Assets swaps in Lightning channels on mainnet](https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1791171395336192174) |
| 57 | +- [NLightning, a dotnet Lightning Network implementation](https://nlightning.ipms.io/docs/quickstart.html) |
| 58 | +- [Stable Channels - peer-to-peer dollar balances on Lightning](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/stable-channels-peer-to-peer-dollar-balances-on-lightning/875) |
| 59 | +- [Blazing the Trails: Improving LND Pathfinding Reliability](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-05-23-pathfinding-2/) |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +## Optech |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +## Bitcoinomics |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +- [ETF Fund flow for US and HK](https://bitcoinetffundflow.com/us) |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## Network Data |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +- [Bitcoin surpasses 1 billion transactions since its conception](https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/) |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +## Mining |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +## Token Layer |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +- [The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/the-hunt-for-rare-bitcoin-is-nearing-an-end/) |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +## Regulatory |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +- [Hong Kong Vies With US in Bitcoin ETF Market After Crypto’s Revival](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-29/hong-kong-debuts-spot-bitcoin-btc-ether-eth-etfs-in-crypto-hub-bet) |
| 84 | +- [What is happening with Hong Kong and Bitcoin ETFs?](https://chinabitcoinbook.com/?p=143) |
| 85 | +- [Federal prosecutors are examining financial transactions at Block, owner of Cash App and Square](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/prosecutors-examining-transactions-block-owner-cash-app-squarc-rcna147181) |
| 86 | +- [zkSNACKs to Suspend Its Coinjoin Coordination Service on June 1st](https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-is-discontinuing-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-1st-of-june/) |
| 87 | +- ['Drop in the bucket': CRA targets millions in unpaid crypto taxes, investigating hundreds of traders](https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cra-clawing-back-54m-in-unpaid-crypto-taxes) |
| 88 | +- [Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering $1.2 Billion of Crypto](https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-developer-found-guilty-of-laundering-crypto/) |
| 89 | +- [IBEX Pay is pulling out of the USA](https://twitter.com/IBEXpay/status/1790814896239620577) |
| 90 | +- [“Incognito Market” Owner Arrested for Operating One of the Largest Illegal Narcotics Marketplaces on the Internet](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/incognito-market-owner-arrested-operating-one-largest-illegal-narcotics-marketplaces) |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +- [Americans Are Racking Up ‘Phantom Debt’ That Wall Street Can’t Track](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/-buy-now-pay-later-has-americans-racking-up-phantom-debt) |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +## New Releases |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +- [First Lightning ATM in Canada opens in Vancouver](https://twitter.com/mikeakitt/status/1787578457335169065) |
| 99 | +- [Sherlock by Fewsats: registering internet domains with Bitcoin and L402](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjvgmt-VdU) |
| 100 | +- [Opensats receives US$21M additional Funding from Jack Dorsey's #startsmall](https://opensats.org/blog/opensats-receives-additional-funding-of-dollar21m-from-startsmall) |
| 101 | +- [Bitcoin Lightning Wallet ZEUS Isn’t Going Anywhere](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-lightning-wallet-zeus-isnt-going-anywhere) |
| 102 | +- [Bitcoin Office El Salvador launches Mempool Space instance](https://bitcoin.gob.sv/) |
| 103 | +- [Silentium, a progressive web app for silent Bitcoin payments](https://app.silentium.dev/) |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +## Events and Podcasts |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +## Miscellaneous |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +- [Bull Bitcoin - Bitcoin Drain in the USA](https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bitcoin-drain-in-the-usa) |
| 112 | +- [He Helped Create Silk Road — But Ross Ulbricht Should Be Freed](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-undeserved-life-sentence-prison-1235013443/) |
| 113 | +- [BTC-e Operator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/btc-e-operator-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy) |
| 114 | +- [The Arrest of Samourai Wallet Developers Shows the US Government Hates Privacy and Freedom](https://mises.org/mises-wire/arrest-samourai-wallet-developers-shows-us-government-hates-privacy-and-freedom) |
| 115 | +- [He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market](https://www.wired.com/story/lin-rui-siang-incognito-market/) |
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