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
New software
CVE & InfoSec
- List of Hardware Wallet Hacks
- Android, StrandHogg allows malwares to pose as legitimate apps
- Example high-stakes information security breaches
- Can We Build Trustable Hardware?
- ZombieLoad attack - Leaking memory operations on Intel CPUs
- SHA-1 is a Shambles
Alts
- Bitcoin Gold (BTG) 51% attacked (again)
- Infrastructure Funding Plan for Bitcoin Cash | bitcoin.com pulls support | plan update
- Header attack on Ethereum Parity nodes
Network Data & Tools
- Bitmex Lightning Research part 6 – Over 60,000 Non-Cooperative Channel Closures
- Bitcoin’s 11th Year by the Numbers
- Node count, Luke Dashjr
- Bitcoin Cash has seen no new block for five hours | fork.lol
Research
- Gnocchi: Multiplexed Payment Channels for Cryptocurrencies
- Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing for LN
- Too Much Crypto
- Offline Transactions in Mimblewimble
Optech
bitcoin-dev
- Opinions on non-equal value coinjoins, Yuval Kogman | Cashfusion
- Soft Fork Activation, Matt Corallo
- OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY discussion | BIP119 | Workshop transcript
- Encoded descriptors, Chris Belcher
- Discreet Log Contract Protocol Specification
lightning-dev
- Remove node/channel info from bolt 11 invoice for private channels
- Decoy node_ids and short_channel_ids | Optech’s summary
- Layered commitments with eltoo | Optech’s summary
- Payswap - using a circular self-payment to hide the actual direction of payment
BIPs & specs
BIPs
BOLTs
Pull Requests and repo updates
Bitcoin Core
- Test coverage now includes fuzzing coverage
- Bitcoin Core #17621 fixes a potential privacy leak for users of the avoid_reuse wallet flag
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
- #17487 Coins: allow Flush() without cache drop (utxo db and indexes) hosted by jamesob
- #17477 Remove the mempool’s NotifyEntryAdded and NotifyEntryRemoved signals (validation) hosted by jonatack
- #17860 fuzz: BIP 42, BIP 30, CVE-2018-17144 (tests) hosted by MarcoFalke
- #14053 Add address-based index (attempt 4?) (utxo db and indexes) hosted by jnewbery
c-lightning
Miscellaneous
- A billion dollar transaction
- 2020 and Beyond: Potential Protocol Upgrades, Bitcoin Magazine
- Gleb Naumenko - Current state of P2P research in Bitcoin / Erlay | Erlay paper
- Blockstraem’s Liquid in BTCPay Server | TheBlueMatt: Don’t use this
- A new Chaincode podcast hosting Pieter Wuille
- AJ Towns - Bitcoin development prioritisation
- Michael Ford - reducing Bitcoin build dependencies
- Murch talks about Unspent Management and Coin Selection
- GoldenEye: Running Bitcoin from Space with Blockstream
- Chainalysis - Darknet Market Activity Higher Than Ever in 2019
- Twitter’s @jack bitcoin unicode
Lightning
- Square Crypto: Introducing the Lightning Development Kit, or LDK | medium | rust-lightning
- c-lightning features tweetstorm
- Onion Studio: An application of TLV extension data in onion packets for anonymously drawing art with c-lightning | github
- Conner Fromknecht – Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers in depth (podcast)