Socratic Seminar 6

2024-07-15

Housekeeping

• This meetup is generously sponsored by Digital Garage and Hivemind Ventures.
• 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.

Chain Weather Report

• Mempool.space Lightning Dashboard
• Clark Moody Dashboard

News

• Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12

Discussion

Delving Bitcoin

• bLIP: BOLT 11 Invoice Blinded Path Tagged Field
• Estimating Likelihood for Lightning Payments to be (in)feasible

Miscellaneous

• Matt Morehouse on Fuzz Testing the Lightning Network

Releases

• lnd v0.18.2-beta

Noteworthy PRs

Core Lightning

• Part 2: connectd onionmessage improvements

eclair

• Monitor onion messages
• Reject unspendable inputs in interactive-tx
• Activate route blinding and quiescence features

LDK

• Introduce MessageContext and use it to allow abandon failed payments
• Interactive TX negotiation tracks shared outputs
• Set max path length when paying BOLT 12 invoices.
• Blinded paths with unannounced introduction nodes

lnd

• 1/4 Route Blinding Receives: Groundwork
• routing: cancelable payment loop
• multi: hook up breach arb with new aux sweeper sub-system