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+type: socratic
+date: "2024-02-27 19:00:00"
+title: "Vancouver Socratic 021"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/298916203/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/3tE4EE2JuVDqwnrJShSsVKDLmrBD/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)
+
+- Noderunners Meetup **TBA**
+- [BTC Vancity Meetup 011](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/299176718/) **15 March 2024**
+- March Bitdevs **26 March 2024**
+- [Halving Party](https://www.meetup.com/vancouver-bitcoiners/events/299220571/) **18 April 2024**
+
+### Spend your sats in Vancouver
+
+[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map)
+
+#### New merchants
+
+- [Container Brewing](https://btcpay.containerbrewing.ca/)
+
+<!-- ### Today's talk -->
+
+### Today's talk
+
+## bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Bitcoin Dev mailing list now on Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev)
+- [Private discussion forums for Bitcoin developers?](https://stacker.news/items/440692)
+- [Vanity Bitcoin transactions](https://twitter.com/keithmukai/status/1753178714441941392)
+- [Introducing Citrea: Bitcoin’s First ZK Rollup](https://www.blog.citrea.xyz/introducing-citrea/)
+- [Add a BIP which resolves human readable names into payment info](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1551)
+- [Perpetually KYC’d Coins Using Evil Covenants](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/perpetually-kycd-coins-using-evil-covenants/556)
+- [Simplest Ark Explanation](https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a394beb1dea9e47e981216768e007454?permalink_comment_id=4633382#file-_simplest_ark-md)
+- [Satoshi - Sirius emails 2009-2011](https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/)
+- [Short explanation of how Bitcoin Core ranks unconfirmed transactions](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1761574082569527555)
+- [OP_CAT explanation](https://blog.yonson.dev/log/2024-02-vol3/)
+- [BIP editors needed](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/cuMZ77KEQAA/m/vUd1mh9kAgAJ)
+
+## lightning-dev
+
+- [An upper Bound for the Probability to be able to successfully conduct a Payment on the Lightning Network](https://github.com/renepickhardt/Lightning-Network-Limitations/blob/main/likelihood-of-payment-possability/An%20upper%20Bound%20for%20the%20Probability%20to%20be%20able%20to%20successfully%20conduct%20a%20Payment%20on%20the%20Lightning%20Network.ipynb)
+- [chanbackup+sweeper: periodically checkpoint active sweeper state using p2p encrypted peer storage feature](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/8472)
+- [Lightning transactions with v3 and ephemeral anchors](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lightning-transactions-with-v3-and-ephemeral-anchors/418/1)
+- [interactive-tx: Add dual-funding flow, using the interactive tx protocol (feature 28/29) #851](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851)
+- [Awesome L402](https://github.com/Fewsats/awesome-L4020)
+- [Using LNC with your Aperture server](https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture/pull/107)
+- ["standard" encoding for invoice metadata](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/8445)
+
+## Optech
+
+- [A lightning address for every npub](https://primal.net/e/note1q5767jm5xp07d23u6qx038dxrazp3hst5wk5np3cnw4wcaml9vwsz8xuhk)
+- [Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle](https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/)
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+- [Binance sets cap on USDT for Nigeria](https://twitter.com/mikaelcbernard/status/1760023906826478001)
+- [Coinbase Commerce drops Bitcoin payments](https://twitter.com/lauren_dowling_/status/1758985684340322656)
+
+## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+- [NY Community Bancorp Plunges as Real Estate Risks Jolt Market](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/new-york-community-bancorp-slumps-on-surprise-loss-dividend-cut)
+- [New York Community Bank stock collapse](https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1754964227511509494)
+
+## ETF SPECIAL
+
+- [Bitwise moves ETF to Segwit addresses](https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1757813223536103568)
+- [iShares ETF hits US$5 billion in assets in five weeks](https://twitter.com/NateGeraci/status/1757627837626867810)
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [Wallet of Satoshi surpases 15 million transactions](https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1752517658606743928)
+- [A single node is responsible for half of the penalty transactions in January](https://forkmonitor.info/lightning)
+- [Amboss launched Lightning analytics tools](https://rpo.dev/)
+- [Marathon mining odd transactions](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1760746059956187414)
+
+## Mining
+
+- [Company that had 3 secret cryptocurrency mines must pay $400K, cease operations in Alberta](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/green-block-mining-settlement-utilities-commission-1.7099790)
+- [Crypto firm fails in court bid to force BC Hydro to power it](https://globalnews.ca/news/10274658/bc-hydro-crypto-pause/)
+- [Braiins offers Lightning payouts](https://twitter.com/braiinsmining/status/1760319741560856983)
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [Bitcoin Magazine Editorial Policy On Bitcoin Layer 2s (L2s)](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/bitcoin-magazine-editorial-policy-on-bitcoin-layer-2s-l2s)
+- [Wave of proposed "L2s"](https://twitter.com/davidfbailey/status/1760050396414775596)
+
+## New Releases
+
+- [Coinos allows users to configure auto-withdrawals onchain](https://twitter.com/coinoswallet/status/1753182855226912833)
+- [Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix](https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-swaproot)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [Watchman Privacy: Coincards - Buy Gift Cards with Monero and Bitcoin](https://fountain.fm/episode/dCvn3BxK849u76vnw8aW)
+- [Damus & Nostr: Revolutionizing Bitcoin in Web3 | William Casarin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAx1DiBjRQ)
+- [Take Your Business Global by Accepting Bitcoin (Adam & Cole, Coinos)](https://beyondtheprice.substack.com/p/take-your-business-global-by-accepting)
+- [What Bitcoin Did: The Hidden Cost of Money with Seb Bunney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnBuIla9nGU)
+- [Bitcoin ossification debate](https://twitter.com/TFTC21/status/1759704333736878289)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- ["Fake income" mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks](https://www.thebureau.news/p/fake-chinese-income-mortgages-fuel)