Socratic Seminar 2 - Dec 29th 2019

The seminar will take place on Dec 29th, 18:00, at the embassy. See the events on Facebook and Meetup.com for more details.

Releases

c-lightning v0.8.0 (Blockchain Good, Orange Coin Bad)
lnd v0.8.2-beta
JoinMarket v0.6.0 (and v0.6.1: bugfix)
Electrum Personal Server v0.2.0
Wasabi v1.1.10: The Unspendables (and v1.1.10.1: Hotfix and v1.1.10.2: Core 19)
Breez v0.8
BTCPayServer Vault v1.0.0

New software

CVE & InfoSec

Flaw Found in Keepkey Crypto Hardware Wallet (part 2 with more technical details)
795-bit RSA has been factored (RSA Number 240 of the RSA Factoring Challenge)
TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks
US Authorities Arrest Alleged SIM Swappers After Crypto Thefts

Alts

Network Data & Tools

Research

Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

lightning-dev

BIPs & specs

BIPs

OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY BIP draft (previously OP_SECURETHEBAG, announcement, revisions, utxos.org)

BOLTs

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

#17624: Fix an uninitialized read in ProcessMessage (merged)
#12763: RPC Whitelist (merged)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

Bitcoin Core HWI

#291: Implement a simple Qt GUI

c-lightning

#3260: createonion and sendonion RPC commands (merged)
#2925: sensitive_command plugin hook (merged)
#3309: MPP send and receive support (lowlevel) (merged)
#3259: Payment secret support (merged)
#3369: funding: enable push_msat (merged)
#3268: lightning ain’t reckless anymore? (merged)

lnd

Circular payments / rebalancing
- #3736: allow route to self (merged)
- #3739: last hop restriction (merged)
Millisatoshis Support
- #3706: Add msat fields to rpc (merged)
- #3729: Add msat fields to invoices (merged)
- #3697: Default the minimum HTLC value to 0 millisatoshis (merged)
Close to address
- #3655: Add Option Upfront Shutdown (merged)
- #3702: Add optional close address (merged)
#3795: lncli+invoices: experimental key send mode (merged)
#3415: allow settling invoices via multi-path payments (merged)

Miscellaneous

Lightning