Announcements

Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our sponsor Bitcoin Association Switzerland, for refreshments and event space.

Presentation

• Christian Decker: Blockstream
• Oliver Gugger: Lightning Labs

News

• F2Pool received 20 BTC transaction fee and controversially returns it
• ZeroSync released a demo & repo for header chain verification
• UTXOracle
• Latest Tor release supports HiddenServicePOW

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Full Specifications for Taproot Assets published

lightning-dev

• CLBOSS returns for automated channel management on CLN
• Remotely control your lightning node from your favorite HSM
• Practical PTLCs
• Scaling LN with simple covenants
• DoS: Fake Lightning Channels

Meetings

• lnd PR Review Club
  • PR 6703
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • Lightning Specification Meeting 2023/09/25

Optech

• Newsletter 2023/09/06

Network Data

• ZeroSync Header Chain Verifier demo

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• RPC: descriptorprocesspsbt returns hex encoded tx if complete

lnd

• lnwire: add wire types for dynamic commitment negotation messages

BIPs

• bip-tap: BIPs for the Taproot Assets Protocol

BLIPs

• blip-tap: initial bLIP draft for Taproot Asset Protocol channels

New Releases

• lnd v0.17.0-beta.rc5
• CLN v23.08.1
• BitBox 08.2023 Motterascio update