Socratic Seminar 39
Event Details
- RSVP: Meetup
- Time: November 18th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location: Entrepreneurs Sandbox (643 Ilalo St) in the Purple Box room
Agenda
- 5:30pm - Arrive and network
- 6:00pm - Announcements
- 6:15pm - Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
- 7:30pm - Hang out after at Honolulu Beerworks
Announcements
- Respect people’s privacy
- Chatham House rules
- Follow us on Twitter (@HonoluluBitcoin)
- Donate sats
- Join our Telegram group
- Dave Harding speaking next month
- Sponsor shoutout
Main Topics
- Self-custody discussion
- 'Unlocking Mass-Market Self-Custody' paper from Block - novel design for smartphone-based bitcoin wallets
- Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus - Risks in Protocol Upgrades
- Roman Sterlingov Gets 12.5-Year Sentence in Federal Prison for Allegedly Running Bitcoin Fog Mixing Service
- Pubky - Infrastructure for decentralized identity management, data routing, and hosting
Optional Topics
- Donald J. Trump Elected as 47th President of the United States
- Can Trump Order a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
- Pennsylvania Proposes Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill
- ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions
- Introducing OpenSecret - the encrypted backend
- Payment Censorship in the Lightning Network Despite Encrypted Communication
- Wallet Development Kit by Tether: Open-source, self-custodial toolkit for developers to create Bitcoin and USDT wallets for humans, AI and robots
- Hadron Platform by Tether: Asset Tokenization for the Mass Market
- Fold Mining Club collaboration with CryptoCloaks and Bitaxe
- Introducing Proto: Building the future of bitcoin mining hardware
- Lightning Cheques
- SeedSigner "firmware" isn't what you think it is
- DePix and Joltz collaborate on natively issued Brazilian real stablecoin via Taproot Assets
- Boltz Web App v1.5.0: BOLT 12 Swaps
- BoltzExchange/boltz-backend Release v3.8.0 - GitHub
- Boltz launches Rootstock Swaps
- Nunchuk.io adds ColdCard as inheritance key option
- PAID IN BITCOIN | Nashville 2024 - YouTube
- Ducat BTC-native stablecoin launches early-access on testnet
- Deutsche Telekom Launches Bitcoin Mining Pilot to Balance Germany's Power Grid
- BTCPAY 2.0 released
- Argentina Central Bank | Live Bitcoin Mining Exhibit
- Liana Wallet v8.0: New templates, improvements to wallet setup and syncing UI, Taproot for BitBox and more Liana Wallet v8.0 on Github
- Bisq2 v2.1.2: Optimized Reputation System & Chat Consolidation
- Lightning Welder: Convert Bolt 12 offers to Bolt 11 invoices
- ZEUS White: White glove node management service
- Athenut: Privacy-preserving Web Search Powered by Kagi & Cashu
- Haven Relay v1.0.0: Blossom Media & Gift Wrapped DM Support
- OpenSats Announces Eighth Wave of Nostr Grants
- YakiHonne v2.0: Re-engineered Core, Redesign & Lightning Wallet
- RoboSats v0.7.2-alpha: Nostr Order Books
- SALT TYPHOON: The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite
