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

Regular Installment of Bitcoin Trivia!

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Miscellaneous

• Ephemeral Anchors BIP
• OP_VAULT BIP
• Jeremy Steps Back
• CHECKSIGADD validation optimization
• Legal protections for open source

Security and Vulnerabilities

• Costless bribes against time-sensitive protocols
• Unenforceable fee obligations
• Tapscript Malleability and APO Implications
• BTCPay Server CVE-2022-32984

Fedimint

• Transaction
• Federated Mining Pools
• Stability Pools
• Versioning
• Migrations

Ordinals and Inscriptions

• ord alpha release
• 4MB block
• Why download witness data on pruned nodes
• ordisrespector
• OP_RETURN vs OP_FALSE OP_IF OP_PUSH, Make OP_RETURN Limitless Again

Lightning

• Path finding Algo Improvements in lnd
• Lightning Benchmark
• VLS Security Review
• Async payment research
• Swap-in-Potentiam