Welcome to BitDevs DC meeting 001!

Wednesday, October 19 2022 @ 7PM

As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follow:

1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.

Agenda

• John Light’s report Validity Rollups on Bitcoin
  • https://bitcoinrollups.org
• Burak’s 998/999 taproot multisig that broke LND
  • https://twitter.com/brqgoo/status/1579216353780957185?s=61&t=d2Ias0SCQd5ffHloz2xG-Q
  • https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/7002
  • https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/pull/1896
• AJ Towns’ Bitcoin Inquisition project
  • https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin
  • Implemented softforks:
    • https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
• bmon: a new Bitcoin performance monitor
  • https://github.com/chaincodelabs/bmon
  • http://web.bmon.info/
  • http://bmon.info/ viewer / viewer
• CoreDev Atlanta recap
  • An update on mempool/package relay and a background review
    • Notes from @glozow
      • https://gist.github.com/glozow/8469dc9c3a003c7046033a92dd504329
    • v3 policy proposal and package RBF: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25038
  • Update on BIP 324 (encrypted P2P connections that support e.g. traffic shaping)
    • https://bip324.com
  • Transcription from @kanzure
    • https://github.com/kanzure/diyhpluswiki/tree/master/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/
• @instagibbs’ Ephemeral Anchors proposal to fix feebumping
  • https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/021036.html
• Scanblocks rpc command merged
  • https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23549
  • Review of compact block filters
• Assumeutxo PR merged
  • https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25667
  • What is assumeutxo?
    • https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/master/proposal
• Lisa Neigut’s post about LN rate cards:
  • https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-September/003685.html
• Ruben Somsen’s proposal for unique address servers:
  • https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-September/020952.html
• John Law’s proposal for LN channels with long timeouts to let casual users not need watchtowers
  • https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-October/003707.html
• Burak (i.e. lnd slayer) releases Simplicity Playground
  • https://medium.com/script-wizard/introducing-simplicity-playground-21d28b2ab49f
• Cashu launched a PoC Chaumian ECash wallet with Lightning Support
  • https://github.com/callebtc/cashu
  • Compare to Fedimint, which is federated, uses different cryptography, and has different features
• A high-level language that compiles down to miniscript
  • https://min.sc
• Get on Stacker News!
  • https://stacker.news