April 2022 topics list

[DanGould]

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[DanGould]

Encrypted P2P communications v2 on mainnet

Greenlight added to Breez

Taro

• https://twitter.com/rot13maxi/status/1511400325856608265?s=21

CoinSwaps Alpha is live

CoinSwap sets a new privacy standard for bitcoin that prevents CoinSwap transactions from being blocked by making them look the same as regular transactions. This release is an alpha, so keep in mind that all the features aren’t available yet. However, it still works on signet, mainnet, and retest. —Spiral

Pricing liquidity for Lightning wallets

• Credit: José I. Rojas Echenique & Nicolas Burtey
• “The possibility of liquidity arbitrage on the Lightning network sets a market rate for inbound liquidity.”

Block (formerly Square) Hardware Wallet Update: Fingerprints, batteries and people

• Credit: Block
• “We believe PINs, passwords, and seed phrases are confusing and often not secure given the workarounds normal people have to create given all the friction.”
• How the wallet we're building works
• "we are designing for people who will have a lot to learn – about bitcoin, wallets, and the technology they need to use for both."

BIP21 is a no brainer - At the moment there is a massive UX hurdle that exists for users of different bitcoin wallet software providers.

• Credit: Marty Bent
• “Asking users to choose between on-chain and lightning payments can be confusing - but it’s been necessary to maintain interoperability between wallets”
• Consider Using URs? + UR for bitcoin air gapped already supports animated QRs sbddesign/bip21-site#47 (comment) By Christopher Allen

Bitcoin Bounties hub

• Credit: Coinkite

(thanks for this list ChicagoBitdevs ;))

Bitcoin ATMs being used for Fraud in Taiwan

new software releases:

sensei v2
https://github.com/L2-Technology/sensei/releases/tag/v0.0.2

[louihliu]

Lightning Taro
Strike announcement
Inalienable Property Rights
Taproot Multisig
Stratum V2
tbDEX

[louihliu]

Tesla, Block, and BlockStream

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/tesla-block-blockstream-to-mine-bitcoin-off-solar-power-in-texas.html

[kojisanh]

For the next meetup (5/15), I'd request covering basics of Discrete Log Contract if possible. There is going to be some students attending next time and they seem to be interested in smart contracts and DeFi. DLC should be an interesting topic for those who are not familiar with Bitcoin yet but interested in financial contracts on blockchain.

[kojisanh]

(Note: I don't understand DLC well enough to explain in a simple and easy-to understand way myself, so I need someone else to step up for everyone...)

[DanGould]

@kojisanh great idea. The stable contracts on lightning that may be possible with DLCs are of most interest to me. What details do you have on the student's backgrounds and their interest in particular?

https://github.com/discreetlogcontracts/dlcspecs/blob/master/Introduction.md

https://suredbits.com/discreet-log-contracts-part-2-how-they-work-adaptor-version/

src: @benthecarman

[kojisanh]

They are interested in DeFi(dex, insurance...) so they want to know how does DLC compare to Ethereum style contracts and what tradeoffs it has(scalability, privacy)

[kojisanh]

I don't think there are many people who understand even basics of DLC, so going over basic technical concepts with some practical use case examples would be very helpful, I believe.