bitdevs list 2024-04-30

Author: Liongrass

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+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2024-04-30 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 023"
+meetup: https://lu.ma/bitdevs
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/4NKmXo1vaxtzDJfd3JnfCtHrzQBf/crowdfund)
+
+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)
+
+- Port Moody Bitcoin Meetup **02 May 2024**
+- [Canadian Bitcoin Conference](https://canadianbitcoinconf.com/) **16-18 May 2024** Discount code: _MEETUP10_
+- Noderunners Workshop **21 May 2024**
+- [Lightning Pints](https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-n-beers-vancouver/events/300529786) **23 May 2024**
+- May Bitdevs **28 May 2024**
+- [BTCVancity Bitcoin Meetup #12](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/300663514) **30 May 2024**
+- Powell River Bitcoin Meetup **1 June 2024**
+
+### Spend your sats in Vancouver
+
+[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map)
+
+#### New merchants
+
+[Bula Lounge](https://bulalounge.com/)
+
+<!-- ### Today's talk -->
+
+### Today's talk
+
+
+
+## bitcoin-dev
+
+- [The Future of Bitcoin Testnet3](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/9bL00vRj7OU/m/9yCPo3uUBwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer&pli=1)
+- [Exploding Keys - Covenant construction](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/exploding-keys-covenant-construction/832)
+- [Assigning BIP Numbers](https://blog.bitmex.com/assigning-bip-numbers/)
+- [Coinfaucet declares "Testnet war"](https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet/)
+
+## lightning-dev
+
+- [Clearing the Paths: A Deep Dive into LND's Pathfinding Mechanism](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-04-11-pathfinding-1/)
+- [LND v0.18.0-rc1 is released](https://groups.google.com/u/0/a/lightning.engineering/g/lnd/c/KzHbUzM6tnc)
+
+## Optech
+
+- [Hackers are threatening to leak World-Check, a huge sanctions and financial crimes watchlist](https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/world-check-database-leaked-sanctions-financial-crimes-watchlist/)
+- [Wallet Fingerprints: Detection & Analysis](https://ishaana.com/blog/wallet_fingerprinting/)
+- [List of known wallet fingerprints](https://github.com/achow101/wallet-fingerprinting/blob/main/fingerprints.md)
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [What the Drop in Lightning Nodes Means for LN's Future?](https://lightningnetwork.plus/posts/553)
+- [Amboss All Time Nodes](https://amboss.space/stats?params=eyJtZXRyaWMiOiJhY3RpdmVfbm9kZXMiLCJjYXRlZ29yeSI6ImFsbFRpbWVNZXRyaWNzIn0%3D)
+- [ViaBTC's total reward for the halving block was just over 74 BTC](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1783528618720727288)
+
+## Mining
+
+- [Bitcoin Mining Pools Have Become Critically Centralized](https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-pool-centralization/)
+- [Pools sharing custodian](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605)
+- [Pools sharing the same block template](https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1780611768081121700)
+- [Marathon Slipstream lets you submit non-standard transactions directly to their node](https://slipstream.mara.com/)
+- [Introducing Lightning Payouts](https://pool.braiins.com/en/news/introducing-lightning-payouts)
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [Taproot Assets Edge Nodes](https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/taproot-assets/edge-nodes)
+- [OP_CAT BIP](https://github.com/bip420/bip420?tab=readme-ov-file)
+- [OP_CAT is assigned BIP 347](https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1783197750949257436)
+- [The Runes Protocol](https://docs.ordinals.com/runes.html)
+- [Spaces Protocol: Scalable & Permissionless Bitcoin Identities](https://spacesprotocol.org/)
+- [BitVM 2: Opening Up The Playing Field](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitvm-2-opening-up-the-playing-field)
+- [First BitVM transaction mined](https://mempool.space/tx/d8a091a7f5ffa4993681b3df688968fd274bc76897b8b3953309ffad6055f4b0)
+- [Cashu Gateways](https://damus.io/nevent1qqsfakvg9fwttxp6y2fp0n0nmrgnguac63h3lf4pxafetrhms85yv5spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxrhwden5te0dehhxarj9enx6apwwa5h5tnzd9az7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsssnezh)
+- [LRC-20](https://github.com/akitamiabtc/LRC-20/blob/main/LRC_20_V0.1.pdf)
+
+## Regulatory
+
+- [DOJ’s New Stance on Crypto Wallets is a Threat to Liberty and the Rule of Law](https://www.coincenter.org/dojs-new-stance-on-crypto-wallets-is-a-threat-to-liberty-and-the-rule-of-law/)
+- [Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering)
+- [Phoenix Wallet exiting the US](https://twitter.com/jack/status/1783884776086409393)
+- [Are Lightning nodes Money Service Providers](https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1783878732865740940)
+- [Bull Bitcoin requires full KYC for buying Bitcoin at Canada Post](https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1774840970841874438)
+- [Lightspark Gets Debanked by Bill.com](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/lightspark-gets-debanked-by-bill-com/)
+- [zkSNACKs is Now Blocking U.S. Residents and Citizens](https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens/)
+
+## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+
+
+## New Releases
+
+- [Coinbase integrates the Lightning Network with Lightspark](https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-integrates-bitcoins-lightning-network-in-partnership-with)
+- [Introducing Casa Inheritance: Secure your generational wealth](https://blog.keys.casa/introducing-casa-inheritance/)
+- [LNURL for self-sovereign phoenixd](https://primal.net/e/note1tujvj50j76rhwts5tf6ud2fxdg9n8gyw8z7tsnwp4fsweg4xzt5sa7590u)
+- [Sulu solutions releases Sparkwall](https://twitter.com/sulusolutions/status/1777776940134408442)
+- [LLM Inference APIs with Lightning](https://www.sulu.sh/llm402)
+- [Kraken launches self-custodial mobile wallet and releases its open-source code](https://www.theblock.co/post/289448/kraken-launches-self-custodial-mobile-wallet-and-releases-its-open-source-code)
+- [The Bitcoin Scholarship](https://bitcoinscholarship.xyz/)
+- [Bitcoin Holiday Calendar](https://bitcoin.holiday/)
+- [Neutronpay expands throughout South-east Asia](https://twitter.com/neutronpayapp/status/1783119464932016399)
+- [Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin](https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/block-now-lets-square-merchants-convert-a-part-of-their-daily-sales-to-bitcoin/)
+- [Perfect forward secrecy is coming to Nostr](https://twitter.com/jb55/status/1785280982226190588)
+
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [MIT Bitcoin Expo '24 recording](https://web.mit.edu/webcast/bitcoin-expo-s24/)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [Satoshi’s 2014 Email Hack](https://blog.bitmex.com/satoshis-2014-email-hack/)
+- [The Untold Story of ditto-b](https://blog.lopp.net/the-untold-story-of-ditto-b/)
+- [Notes on El Salvador](https://mattlakeman.org/2024/03/30/notes-on-el-salvador/)
+- [How to Dictator-Proof Your Money](https://journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-to-dictator-proof-your-money/)
+- [Vancouver discussion on Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/519353)
+- [He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared](https://www.wired.com/story/faruk-ozer-turkey-crypto-fraud/)
+- [The Deaths of Effective Altruism](https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/)
+- [Anatomy of a credit card rewards program](https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-card-rewards-programs/)
+- [B.C. files unexplained wealth order against co-founder of defunct crypto exchange Quadriga](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-files-unexplained-wealth-order-against-co-founder-of-defunct-crypto/)
+- [‘I want to be like bitcoin jesus’: Court documents reveal how the Quadriga crypto scandal unfolded](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-quadrigacx-crypto-scandal/)