Socratic Seminar 4
2024-05-14
Housekeeping
- This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage, Hivemind Ventures, and CardCoins.
- Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!
- Socratic Seminars are held under the Chatham House Rule: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.
- For the privacy of other attendees, please refrain from taking photographs of other people without their permission.
- Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused.
- The reading list covers April 13th to May 11th.
Presentation
- Ken Sedgwick - VLS demo [presentation]
- Valentine Wallace - Async Payments
Chain Weather Report
News
- ACINQ announces that Phoenix will be removed from US app stores on May 3rd
- Strike is exploring BOLT12 and LDK
- Samourai wallet founders arrested
- Wasabi blocks US citizens and will shut down coordination services
Discussion
Tweets & Blogs
- Roasbeef makes a mainnet asset keysend payment w/ Taproot Asset channels
- 1 week later, Roasbeef makes a mainnet multi-hop asset payment w/ Taproot Asset channels
- Lopp: Griefing Bitcoin's Testnet
Delving Bitcoin
N/A
Miscellaneous
- Two WIP Ark implementations are now public
- clArk is covenant-less and relies on pre-signed tx
- ark relies on covenants and is currently using Liquid
- Ark vs clArk explainer
Releases
Noteworthy PRs
Core Lightning
eclair
LDK
- ChannelManager documentation refresh
- Add fuzzing coverage for BOLT11 invoice deserialization
- Include excess counterparty commitment transaction fees in dust exposure
- LDK #3017 and #3018 update BOLT12 structs to support last-minute changes to the spec
lnd
- LND #8147, #8422, #8423, #8148, #8667, and #8674 replace LND’s old sweeper with a new implementation
- lnrpc: rejects positive inbound fees by default
- Blinded Route Error Handling