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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +type: socratic |
| 4 | +date: "2024-06-25 19:00:00" |
| 5 | +title: "Vancouver Socratic 025" |
| 6 | +meetup: https://lu.ma/lrubo1mp |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar! |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +- Event space [fundraiser](https://we.encrypt.cash/apps/4Y1Hhqeq7RLeC642y9QghRCFKv5R/crowdfund) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +We now post the links to this seminar in advance! [Check out our Github issues for the latest.](https://github.com/VancouverBitdevs/VancouverBitdevs.github.io/issues) |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +Today's MC: TBD |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +### Never miss a Bitcoin event ever again |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +[Check out and subscribe to the calendar here](/calendar) |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +- [BTCVancity Bitcoin Meetup #013](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/301682667) **11 July 2024** |
| 24 | +- July Bitdevs **30 July 2024** |
| 25 | +- [Block Party 2024](https://www.meetup.com/btc_vancity/events/301210214/) |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +### Spend your sats in Vancouver |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +[Check out our new map and merchant directory](/map) |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +#### New merchants |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +- [Jack Lonsdale](https://jacklonsdales.ca/) |
| 34 | +- [Blunt Cannabis](https://www.bluntcannabis.ca/) |
| 35 | +- [EJ Cell Phone Repair](https://ejrepair.com/) |
| 36 | +- [Carnitas Don Jose](https://www.donjosecarnitas.ca/) |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +<!-- ### Today's talk --> |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +### Today's talk |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +L402s & Lightning-enabled APIs by Jordi |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +## bitcoin-dev |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +- [An overview of the cluster mempool proposal](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/an-overview-of-the-cluster-mempool-proposal/393) |
| 47 | +- [Bitcoin OP_CAT Use Cases Series #1: Covenants](https://scryptplatform.medium.com/trustless-ordinal-sales-using-op-cat-enabled-covenants-on-bitcoin-0318052f02b2) |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +## lightning-dev |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +- [DoS: LND Onion Bomb](https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-onion-bomb/) |
| 52 | +- [Bolt12 campaign website launched](https://bolt12.org/) |
| 53 | +- [Matt Morehouse on Fuzz Testing the Lightning Network](https://brink.dev/blog/2024/06/25/eng-call-fuzz-testing-lightning/) |
| 54 | +[Slides](https://brink.dev/assets/files/2024-06-25-eng-fuzzing_ln.pdf) |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +## Optech |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +- [Bitcoin Core vulnerability disclosure policy discussions report](https://gist.github.com/darosior/eb71638f20968f0dc896c4261a127be6) |
| 59 | +- [Kraken falls victim to rogue security researchers](https://x.com/c7five/status/1803403565865771370) |
| 60 | +- [Security researchers respond](https://x.com/CertiK/status/1803450205389402215) |
| 61 | +- [Rootstock temporarily pauses peg-in and -out operations](https://x.com/rootstock_io/status/1805608201825444239) |
| 62 | +- [Fedimint guardians permanently offline after xyz domains taken by registrar](https://damus.io/nevent1qqs07vzaf20nkacc3qp0j2hjzjyynfynf9q9qpa9d23uf7n7prt2cdqpzamhxue69uhkyarr945hgctvd9sjummwd35kuegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduxvsg0d) |
| 63 | +- [Allow Fedimints to swap guardian domains](https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/issues/5482/) |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +## Bitcoinomics |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +- [Bitcoin ETF Has Broken BTC's Pandemic-Era Price Correlation With Luxury Watches](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/01/30/bitcoin-etf-has-broken-btcs-pandemic-era-price-correlation-with-luxury-watches/) |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +## Network Data |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +- [OKX spends US$17.5 million on onchain fees bidding against itself](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1799442627030339794) |
| 72 | +- [$9 Billion in Bitcoin: Mt. Gox to Start Repayments in July](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/mt-gox-to-start-bitcoin-repayments-in-july) |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +## Mining |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +- [Foundry wins unlikely mining race](https://x.com/0xb10c/status/1803082081385246738) |
| 77 | +- [$2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/dollar24-million-texas-home-listing-boasts-full-liquid-cooling-immersion-system-and-5786-sq-ft-data-center-built-in) |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +## Token Layer |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +- [Introducing Brollups](https://brqgoo.medium.com/introducing-brollups-18ec4081f6e7) |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +## Regulatory |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +- [Donor To Anti-Bitcoin Rep. Brad Sherman Coordinates Wwith China's "Magic Weapon" to Influence US Politicians](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/a-large-donor-to-anti-bitcoin-rep-brad-sherman-coordinates-with-chinas-magic-weapon-to-influence-us-politicians-including-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-) |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +- [LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve](https://securityaffairs.com/164873/cyber-crime/lockbit-claims-hacked-us-federal-reserve.html) |
| 90 | +- [Progress on the preparation phase of a digital euro - First progress report](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/progress/html/ecb.deprp202406.en.html) |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +## New Releases |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +- [Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in Techno-Nationalist China](https://www.amazon.com/Would-Mao-Hold-Bitcoin-Techno-Nationalist/dp/B0D7672L8X/) |
| 95 | +- [Bitcoin Financial Platform Lava Unveils Exchange And Stable Payments](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-financial-platform-lava-unveils-exchange-and-stable-payments-) |
| 96 | +- [Bitcoin Well enables Lightning to e-transfer withdrawals](https://x.com/thebitcoinwell/status/1795438199332024473) |
| 97 | +- [Neutronpay now available in South Korea](https://x.com/NeutronpayApp/status/1797635294726181235) |
| 98 | +- [Ark Labs launches, promising Bitcoin payments at scale](https://arklabs.to/) |
| 99 | +- [Lightning Network request decoder](https://amboss.space/) |
| 100 | +- [Zeus v0.9.0-alpha is out](https://x.com/ZeusLN/status/1800129738993963034) |
| 101 | +- [Latin America's Largest Fintech Bank Integrates Bitcoin Lightning Payments Via Lightspark](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/latin-americas-largest-fintech-bank-integrates-bitcoin-lightning-payments) |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +## Events and Podcasts |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +- [Oslo Freedom Forum Financial Freedom Track Livestream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMeNe1tBsr4) |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +## Miscellaneous |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +- [Erik Vorrhess' keynote at the Coincenter gala](https://x.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1798002518016110764) |
| 110 | +- [Abandoned Adoption : Bitcoin Backslides and Hard Truths](https://livingonbitcoin.substack.com/p/abandoned-adoption-bitcoin-backslides) |
| 111 | +- [HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #17](https://hrf.org/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-17/) |
| 112 | +- [Lightning Is the Common Language of the Bitcoin Economy](https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-is-the-common-language-of-the-bitcoin-economy-eb8515341c11) |
| 113 | +- [Bitcoin Lightning Alliance To Accelerate Adoption Using New Asset Protocol](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-lightning-alliance-to-accelerate-adoption-using-new-asset-protocol) |
| 114 | +- [El Salvador Trip Report](https://stacker.news/items/559273) |
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