Merge pull request BitDevsNYC#177 from BitDevsNYC/soc-144

Add topics for Socratic Seminar 144 (Thu Feb 20 2025)

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+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 144"
+meetup: "https://www.meetup.com/bitdevsnyc/events/306081954/"
+---
+
+## Announcements
+Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsors [Chaincode Labs](https://chaincode.com) and [Lava](https://www.lava.xyz/) for food, refreshments and event space.
+
+If you can't make it to the main event please join us at [PUBKEY](https://pubkey.bar/home) around 9:30PM.
+
+Follow New York BitDevs on:
+
+- [Twitter](https://x.com/BitDevsNYC)
+- [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/bitdevsnyc.bsky.social)
+- nostr: `npub1nydevscv0slx9eyr0chkkdgzqfhtp4guk039akhq6g9fnsrf6lcsup3hqs`
+
+## Presentation
+-
+
+## Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech
+### Mailing Lists
+#### [bitcoin-dev](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev)
+- [Rust library for joinstr (coinjoin implementation)](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/llIO7J0APDs)
+- [Update on the Great Consensus Cleanup Revival](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/rf3QOlzg230)
+- [Announcing Bitcoin BOSD: Standardized Withdrawal Output Specification for L2s](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/vR54BzC3pIQ)
+- [Proposal for Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol (QRAMP) BIP](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/8PM6iZCeDMc)
+- [Transaction expiration should be based on the most recent transaction in a group, not the first](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/OWxX-o4FffU)
+- [Finished planned work on BIP 3: Updated BIP Process](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/2sRvtPUf5T4)
+- [Call for reconfiguration of nodes to relay transactions with fee-rates below 1 sat/vbyte](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/3CRqKviJY_M)
+- [UTXO checkpoint transactions](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/DwRxasnCd5A)
+
+
+#### [Delving Bitcoin](https://delvingbitcoin.org/)
+- [Zero-fee commitments for mobile wallets](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/zero-fee-commitments-for-mobile-wallets)
+- [Bitcoin Forking Guide](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-forking-guide)
+- [Bitcoin Inquisition 28.1](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-inquisition-28-1)
+- [Anecdotal kode (code) for humans](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/anecdotal-kode-code-for-humans)
+- [Highly Available Lightning Channels Revisited – ROUTE OR OUT](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/highly-available-lightning-channels-revisited-route-or-out)
+- [MultisigBackup.com: Backup and recover a k-of-n descriptor using only n seeds](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/multisigbackup-com-backup-and-recover-a-k-of-n-descriptor-using-only-n-seeds)
+- [Signet faucet using TRUC and RBF](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/signet-faucet-using-truc-and-rbf)
+- [Erlay: Define fanout rate based on the transaction reception method](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/erlay-define-fanout-rate-based-on-the-transaction-reception-method)
+- [Stats on orphanage overflows](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/stats-on-orphanage-overflows)
+- [Erlay: Find acceptable target number of peers to fanout to](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/erlay-find-acceptable-target-number-of-peers-to-fanout-to)
+- [Spanning-forest cluster linearization](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/spanning-forest-cluster-linearization)
+- [Erlay: Select fanout candidates at relay time instead of at relay scheduling time](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/erlay-select-fanout-candidates-at-relay-time-instead-of-at-relay-scheduling-time)
+- [Erlay: Filter fanout candidates based on transaction knowledge](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/erlay-filter-fanout-candidates-based-on-transaction-knowledge)
+- [Erlay: Overview and current approach](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/erlay-overview-and-current-approach)
+- [Minimal signing flow changes for TRUC channels](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/minimal-signing-flow-changes-for-truc-channels)
+- [Which ephemeral anchor script should lightning use?](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/which-ephemeral-anchor-script-should-lightning-use)
+- [Disclosure: LDK Duplicate HTLC Force Close Griefing](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-ldk-duplicate-htlc-force-close-griefing)
+- [Emulating OP_RAND](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/emulating-op-rand)
+- [ZK-gossip for lightning channel announcements](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/zk-gossip-for-lightning-channel-announcements)
+
+
+### Meetings
+- [Bitcoin PR Review Club](https://bitcoincore.reviews)
+    - [#31363 Cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph](https://bitcoincore.reviews/31363)
+
+- Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
+    - [January 30](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-01-30.html#l-115)
+    - [February 6](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-02-06.html#l-128)
+    - [February 13](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2025-02-13.html#l-128)
+
+- Lightning Specification meeting
+    - [February 10th](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/1224)
+
+### Optech
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #341](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/02/14/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #340](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/02/07/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #339](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/31/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #340 Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/02/11/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #339 Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/02/04/)
+- [Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #338 Recap Podcast](https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/01/28/)
+
+
+## Network Data
+-
+
+## CVEs and Research
+### Research
+-
+
+### InfoSec
+-
+
+## Pull Requests and repo updates
+### [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin)
+- [cmake: add optional source files to bitcoin_crypto and crc32c directly](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31268)
+- [contrib: Add deterministic-fuzz-coverage](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31836)
+- [cmake: Add `libbitcoinkernel` target](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31869)
+- [contrib: add tool to convert compact-serialized UTXO set to SQLite database](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27432)
+- [Fix -norpcwhitelist, -norpcallowip, and similar corner case behavior](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30529)
+- [random: Initialize variables in hardware RNG functions](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31863)
+- [wallet: fix rescanning inconsistency](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31629)
+- [validation: In case of a continued reindex, only activate chain in the end](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31439)
+- [net: reduce CAddress usage to CService or CNetAddr](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31854)
+- [cmake: add a component for each binary](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31844)
+- [wallet: Utilize IsMine() and CanProvide() in migration to cover edge cases](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31495)
+- [depends: Fix compiling `libevent` package on NetBSD](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31500)
+- [build: simplify by flattening the dependency graph](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30911)
+- [test: Add mockable steady clock, tests for PCP and NATPMP implementations](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31022)
+- [test: add mocked Sock that can read/write custom data and/or CNetMessages](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30205)
+- [mining: bugfix: Fix duplicate coinbase tx weight reservation](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31384)
+- [TxOrphanage: account for size of orphans and count announcements](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31810)
+- [Prepare "Open Transifex translations for v29.0" release step](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31809)
+- [wallet, assumeutxo: Don't Assume m_chain_tx_count, Improve wallet RPC errors](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30909)
+- [rpc: have getblocktemplate mintime account for timewarp](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31600)
+
+
+### [BDK](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk)
+- [Fix off-by-one error checking coinbase maturity in optional UTxOs](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/1830)
+
+
+### [HWI](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI)
+
+
+### [rust-bitcoin](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin)
+- [Make Debug representation of Witness to be slice of hex-encoded bytes strings to improve readability](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4061)
+- [Implement Default for Script](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4043)
+- [primitives: Add tests to LockTime](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4037)
+- [Validate compressed WIF keys](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4050)
+- [primitives: store transaction::Version as u32 instead of i32](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4040)
+- [Add a tagged hash engine](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4010)
+- [Add symmetrical fee calculation method to Weight](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/3983)
+
+
+### [libsecp](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1)
+- [README: add instructions for verifying GPG signatures](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1646)
+- [schnorrsig: clear out masked secret key in BIP-340 nonce function](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1650)
+
+
+### [secp256k1-zkp](https://github.com/ElementsProject/secp256k1-zkp)
+
+
+### [dlcspecs](https://github.com/discreetlogcontracts/dlcspecs)
+
+
+### [Core Lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning)
+- [xpay: don't MPP if we're told not to](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8059)
+- [xpay below minimum htlc amount should not give up](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8057)
+- [offers: add a blinded path if we have no advertized address.](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8071)
+- [Wallet can spend takes ages](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8019)
+- [Fix: getblockfrompeer was always requesting block from the first peer](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8069)
+- [new notifications: `plugin_stopped` and `plugin_started`](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/7508)
+- [common: fix memcpy error in Fischer-Yates shuffle.](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8074)
+- [lightningd: don't kill onchaind if we are forcing a disconnect.](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8056)
+- [lightningd: increase startup time for plugins to 120 seconds.](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8060)
+- [splice: Don’t let users do unsigned splices](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8052)
+- [Ability to unblacklist runes](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8037)
+- [pay: Print the HTLC result as soon as it's known](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/7930)
+
+
+### [eclair](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/)
+- [Update Bitcoin Core to v28.1](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2962)
+- [Implement `option_simple_close`](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2967)
+- [Check peer features before attempting wake-up](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2979)
+- [Secondary mechanism to trigger watches for transactions from past blocks](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3002)
+- [Use remote funding when setting `max_htlc_value_in_flight`](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2980)
+- [Add router support for batched splices](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2989)
+- [Log balance estimate updates](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2994)
+- [Only sync with top peers](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2983)
+- [Send `channel_announcement` for splice transactions on public channels](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2968)
+- [Do not estimate balance for local channels](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2988)
+
+
+### [LDK](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning)
+- [PeerStorage: Add feature and store peer storage in ChannelManager](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3575)
+- [Eliminate invalid Hop/InboundOnionPayload combinations](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3598)
+- [Prefactor for inbound Trampoline parsing/decryption](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3595)
+- [Include base input fee in fee, in calculate_our_funding_satoshis()](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3558)
+- [Merge probabilistic scores from external source](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3562)
+- [Ensure `peer_disconnected` is called after a handler refuses a connection](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3580)
+- [Support receiving async payments](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3440)
+- [Trampoline Payload Construction Method](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3386)
+- [Support persisting `ChannelMonitor`s after splicing ](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3569)
+- [Don't over-allocate invoice bytes](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3494)
+- [Add support for mapping old fields to new ones in TLV read macros](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3378)
+- [Avoid parsing `PublicKey`s when handling RGS updates](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3581)
+- [Start tracking ChannelMonitors by channel ID in ChainMonitor and ChannelManager](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3554)
+- [Set correct `counterparty_spendable_height` on c.p. revoked HTLCs](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3564)
+- [Calculate Trampoline onion packet sizes dynamically.](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3333)
+
+
+### [lnd](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd)
+- [invoicesrpc: remove direct access to ChannelGraph pointer](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9516)
+- [graph: ensure topology subscriber handling and network msg handling is synchronous](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9515)
+- [For some lncli cmds we should not replace the content with other data](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9493)
+- [rpcserver: check `blockbeatDispatcher` when deciding `isSynced`](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9501)
+- [discovery+graph:  move funding tx validation to the gossiper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9478)
+- [graph: remove redundant iteration through a node's persisted channels](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9496)
+- [routing+htlcswitch: fix stuck inflight payments](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9150)
+- [discovery+graph: various preparations for moving funding tx validation to the gossiper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9477)
+- [lnrpc+docs: deprecate warning `SendToRoute`, `SendToRouteSync`, `SendPayment`, and `SendPaymentSync` in Release 0.19](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9456)
+
+
+### [BIPs](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips)
+- [373: Correct test data mismatches](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1769)
+- [328: test vectors, reference implementation, update to Proposed](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1762)
+- [373: test vectors, reference implementation, update to Proposed](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1764)
+- [390: Add reference implementation](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1763)
+- [Render author email addresses in markdown BIPs](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1759)
+- [BIP374: add test vectors for secp256k1 generator point](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1751)
+
+
+### [BLIPs](https://github.com/lightning/blips)
+
+
+
+### [BOLTs](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc)
+- [`option_simple_close` (features 60/61)](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1205)
+- [More clarifications around `channel_announcement` handling](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1220)
+- [Add test vector for (invalid) mixed-case offer encoding](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1217)
+
+
+## New Releases
+-
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+-
+
+## Mining
+-
+
+## Miscellaneous
+-