November 2024 Meeting Topics

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✍️ Link anything you'd like to discuss: news, demos, ideas, whatever!

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A decentralized Bitcoin exchange network

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• Discuss Bisq P2P platform
  • Main goals
  • Differentiation points
  • Challenges
  • Trade-offs
• Compare with other similar purpose no-KYC platforms:
  • Robosats
  • lnp2pbot.com

⚙️📺 Live trade demo (as last time with Robosats 💵🔀₿)

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Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades:
Conversation with Lyn Alden, delving into the complexities of Bitcoin consensus, exploring the various stakeholders involved in maintaining it, the implications of hard and soft forks, and the importance of understanding the state of mind of stakeholders. They discuss the risks associated with network fragmentation and the potential impact of institutional investors on Bitcoin's future, emphasizing the need for education and awareness within the community.

Further reading see paper published by Lyn Alden, Ren Crypto Fish, Steve Lee "Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades."

[open-source3]

BTC best practice training 101 :-)
https://x.com/naiivememe/status/1833484585168244771

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Bitcoin Stack State
https://x.com/t4t5/status/1861066474623782959

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Localhost Research
https://lclhost.org/

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US Court Lifts Sanctions on Tornado Cash

https://www.therage.co/fifth-circuit-lifts-tornado-cash-sanctions/

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Great Script Restoration Interpreter
https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1854552545084977320

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DLC Dev Kit
https://x.com/bennyhodl/status/1853909096333754524

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ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions
https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1802

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Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.12

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Fix broken URLs to lists.linuxfoundation.org
bitcoinops/bitcoinops.github.io#2018