Socratic Seminar #43

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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RSVP: Bitcoin Park Meetup Event

Categories:

• Events
• News
• Bitcoin Projects
• Lightning Projects
• New Work/Research

[Captainfran]

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszejcm7c4mw8p6autsgaaf38jc2q63kzlx5e2nva3lf84647nejxcsu8aj8

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Events

• Thr May 14 @ 5 pm: 101 Intro to Bitcoin
• Thr May 21 @ 6 pm: Music City Rust Meetup
• Fri May 22 @ 4:30 pm: Bitcoin Pizza Day at The Park
• Wed-Thr May 27-28: bitcoin++ Vienna
• Thr May 28 @ 5:30 pm: Philosophy for Freedom In the Age of AI
• Sat May 30 @ 9 am: CLAWS & COFFEE
• Thr-Sat June 11-13: BTC Prague

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News

• "Block launches Bitkey wallet with screen, automatic bitcoin earning on Cash App, and Proof of Reserves"

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News

• "Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution."
• "256 FOUNDATION WINS $100,000 FROM THE MARA FOUNDATION"
• "Galoy Expands Bitcoin Banking Platform Ahead of Bitcoin 2026"
• "Tether Investments Proposes Merger Plans at Twenty-One Capital to Accelerate its Strategic Direction"

Bitcoin Projects

• Bitcoin Core 31.0 Release
• Cold Card Edge Version 6.5.0X/QX
• fix(wallet): exclude unconfirmed v3 outputs from non-v3 coin selection bdk_wallet#442
• feat: add frigate electrum based RPC methods electrum_streaming_client#16

Lightning Projects

• Core Lightning 26.04 Release
• New ldk-server project
  • "Carman's BTC 2026 Presentation"
• onionmessage+peer: rate-limit incoming onion messages per-peer and globally
  lnd#10713
  • "Onion Message Jamming in the Lightning Network"

New Work/Research

• Zeus: "LIGHTNING ECONOMICS: The Bridge Between Bitcoin's Two Identities"
• BIP-0322: clarify motivation/purpose, add prefix, clarify Proof of Funds format, describe PSBT based signing
  bips#2141
• BIP-0393: "Output Script Descriptor Annotations"
• BIP-0451: "Dust UTXO Disposal Protocol"

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Do we want to talk about this?

News

• Paul Sztorc "eCash" hardfork

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Bitcoin Projects

• Bitcoin Core: CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash

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@reez do you want to do a "SatsBuddy" demo?

[reez]

@reez do you want to do a "SatsBuddy" demo?

totally, ill plan on it

[reez]

Lightning Projects

• SparkStalker by @psacramento-gh

Research

• A Spiral report on the adoption and mindset of AI usage in open-source development
• Merge bip110-core-pr2 from dathonohm/bitcoin (BIP-110)