Announcements

• Respect people’s privacy
• Interaction and asking questions are encouraged
• Chatham House Rules
• Join our Telegram group (https://t.me/BitcoinAustin) QR or Sphinx Chat
• Bitcoiner Jobs
• IRL base58
• Silicon Salon 2

News

• Carl Dong leaving Chaincode Labs and bitcoin core contributing
• Coinbase funding lawsuit against Treasury dept
• Sanctions updates

Security

• STONEWALLx2 DoS attack on Samurai Wallet: Mailing list, CVE

Contract Protocols

• Spookchains
• Tapscript: New Opcodes, Reduced Limits and Covenants

Privacy

• Spiral - private electrum server Paper
• $\mu$Cash: Transparent Anonymous Transactions
• Credible Confessions
• silent payment descriptor
• Bitcoin-STARKS khepri

Cryptography

• Musig2 approaching v1.0 of the BIP
• Work on Schnorr Batch Verification

Bitcoin

• I2P - transient addresses for outbound connections
• Making Bitcoin Unstoppable: Mesh Nets
• Looking into a weird block
• Wallet label BIP
• braidpool implementation, blog post
• migratewallet rpc commmand

Lightning

• BOLT 12 fork of LND
• Scaling Problems For Taro on Bitcoin?
• Can Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Overcome The Price Of Anarchy?