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+title = "Socratic Seminar 14"
+date = 2025-08-21
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+Housekeeping
+------------
+
+- This meetup is generously sponsored by [Spiral](https://spiral.xyz/)!
+- Questions are encouraged, including basic ones!
+- Socratic Seminars are held under the [Chatham House Rule](https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/chatham-house-rule): share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.
+- For the privacy of other attendees, please refrain from taking photographs of other people without their permission.
+- Socratic seminars are best when the moderator can let the conversation flow, so try to keep things concrete and focused.
+- The reading list covers July 17th to August 21st.
+
+News
+----
+- [US House Passes Bitcoin, Crypto Market Structure Bill The CLARITY Act](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/us-house-passes-bitcoin-crypto-market-structure-bill-the-clarity-act)
+- [Tornado Cash Trial Concludes: Roman Storm Found Guilty on One of Three Counts](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/tornado-cash-trial-concludes-roman-storm-found-guilty-of-one-of-three-counts)
+- [Samourai Wallet Developers Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/samourai-wallet-developers-plead-guilty)
+- [RGB v0.11.1 Launches, Allowing The Creation Of Digital Assets on Bitcoin Mainnet](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/rgb-v0-11-1-launches-allowing-the-creation-of-digital-assets-on-bitcoin-mainnet)
+- [First RGB Bridge Brings USDT From Ethereum to Bitcoin via Lightning](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/first-rgb-bridge-brings-usdt-from-ethereum-to-bitcoin-via-lightning)
+- [Square Begins Rollout of Bitcoin Payments for Sellers, Targets Full Availability by 2026](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/07/23/square-begins-rollout-of-bitcoin-payments-for-sellers-targets-full-availability-by-2026)
+- [Mullvad Lightning Payments](https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/8/5/lightning-payments)
+
+Discussion
+----------
+#### [Delving Bitcoin](https://delvingbitcoin.org/)
+- [Proposal Bitcoin Deposits: A Zero UTXO Trust-Minimized Lightning Wallet](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proposal-bitcoin-deposits-a-zero-utxo-trust-minimized-lightning-wallet/1922)
+- [RGB yellow paper: the formal specification of Bitcoin & Lightning smart contracts](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/rgb-yellow-paper-the-formal-specification-of-bitcoin-lightning-smart-contracts/1885)
+
+bLIPs & BOLTs
+-------------
+- [Add bLIP 55: Webhook Registration (LSPS5)](https://github.com/lightning/blips/pull/55)
+
+Noteworthy PRs
+--------------
+
+### [Core Lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning)
+- [Askrene single path solver](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8299)
+- [Askrene: prune and cap](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8332)
+- [wss-proxy: replaced by a rust version](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8080)
+- [clnrest: add more request and response types](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8383)
+- [Askrene: fix constraints](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8358)
+- [Reckless uv installer](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8430)
+- [migration from poetry to uv](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8249)
+- [Assume option_channel_type](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8389)
+- [Allow routing by older scids when we splice](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8387)
+- [splice: Implement start_batch](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8335)
+- [cln-bip353: add plugin that fetches payment instructions from human readable addresses](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8362)
+- [Set custom tlvs to update_add_htlc via the htlc_accepted_hook](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8433)
+- [Xpay limit parts](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8448)
+- [xpay BIP353 support](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/8467)
+
+### [eclair](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair)
+- [Add outgoing reputation](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3133)
+- [Use CLTV expiry when computing reputation](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3134)
+- [Improve taproot channels support and add tests](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3136)
+- [Verify nonces on reconnection after we've pruned funding transactions](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/3138)
+
+### [LDK](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning)
+- [Update fee and dust handling for zero fee channels](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3884)
+- [Introduce ReceiveAuthKey](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3917)
+- [Hold times for successful payments](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3801)
+- [add expiry_time to PendingOutboundPayment::StaticInvoiceReceived](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3918)
+- [Async background persistence](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3905)
+- [LSPS5 implementation](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3662)
+- [Enable Creation of Offers and Refunds Without Blinded Path](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3246)
+- [lightning-liquidity: Introduce MessageQueueNotifierGuard type](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3981)
+- [Splicing Tx negotiation during splicing](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3736)
+- [Introduce RenegotiatedFundingLocked monitor update variant](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3894)
+- [Let BackgroundProcessor drive HTLC forwarding](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3891)
+- [Ensure partial MPP claims continue to blocks channels on restart](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3928)
+- [Broadcast holder commitment for currently confirmed funding](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3939)
+- [Support splicing in ChannelContext::funding_tx_constructed](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3982)
+- [Detect and fail-back monitor-blocked un-forwarded HTLCs at close](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3989)
+- [Block RAA ChannelMonitorUpdates on PaymentClaimed events](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3988)
+- [Always emit bump events, even when fees are sufficient](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/4001)
+- [Consider currently confirmed FundingScope when claiming commitments](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3980)
+- [Introduce FundingTransactionReadyForSignatures event](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3889)
+- [Detect commitment transaction confirmation in ChannelMonitor instead](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/4013)
+
+### [lnd](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd)
+- [Add deletecanceledinvoice RPC call](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9625)
+- [Increase the default outgoing bandwidth](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10096)
+- [2 graph/db: batch-fetch node data](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10115)
+- [3 graph/db: batch-fetch channel & policy data](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10116)
+- [multi: make gossip filter sends non-blocking, only allow a single backlog catch up goroutine per peer](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10097)
+- [4 sqldb+graph/db: add and use new pagination helper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10118)
+- [5 sqldb+graph/db: add and use new paginate & batch helper](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10121)
+- [6 graph/db: use batch fetching to improve ForEachNode* performance](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10123)
+- [contractcourt+sweep: make anchor inputs exclusive](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10117)
+- [7 graph/db+autopilot: improve efficiency of autopilot methods that use the ForEachNode/ForEachChannel pattern](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10127)
+- [8 graph/db: use batch loading for various graph SQL methods](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10129)
+- [Add NoopAdd HTLCs](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/9871)
+- [graph/db+sqldb: different defaults for SQLite and Postgres query options](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10148)
+- [graph/db: use batch validation to improve SQL migration performance](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10154)
+- [Add missing invoice index for native sql](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/10155)
+- [lnd: use persisted node announcement settings across restarts](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/8825)
+
+Security
+--------
+- [Disclosure: LND gossip_timestamp_filter DoS](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/disclosure-lnd-gossip-timestamp-filter-dos/1859)