Announcements

• Respect people’s privacy
• Interaction and asking questions are encouraged
• Chatham House Rules

Semi-Regular Installment of Bitcoin Trivia!

Base58 sponsored trivia

Topics

Bugs

• Bitcoin Core 30.2 release

Research

• Hash-Based Signatures for Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Future
• Constant-time UTXO database
• Argo MAC
• A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks

Misc

• Funding model question — unpaid exploratory work
• BIP idea: Timelock-Recovery storage format
• BIP Proposal Peer Feature Negotiation
• Broadcast own transactions only via short-lived Tor or I2P connections #29415
• BIP 3 Deployed
• Broken API Electrum API abstractions
• BIP Proposal Add sp() output descriptor format for BIP352
• SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups
• Building a vault using blinded co-signers
• Saylor advocating for hard fork forcing to move coin
• Ark as a channel factory