Socratic Seminar 11 Reading List (December)

[satsie]

Drop links here!

[satsie]

Topic No. 1: discuss the pros + cons of multiple implementations of bitcoin.

Reasoning: btcd broke again https://twitter.com/brqgoo/status/1587397646125260802?s=46&t=ees6gQ0q1gXw9i89Iv_TyQ

Background reading:

https://petertodd.org/2016/multiple-implementations-consensus-systems

[satsie]

Topic No. 2: Full RBF

• https://github.com/glozow/bitcoin-notes/blob/full-rbf/full-rbf.md
• https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/021116.html (this thread)
• https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg12130.html
• Remove mempoolfullrbf option bitcoin/bitcoin#26438
• https://twitter.com/bitcoinoptech/status/1585241693992820736?s=20&t=YV5_-Estm4kz7xSfhcpzzA

[edwargix]

Topic No. 1: discuss the pros + cons of multiple implementations of bitcoin.

Reasoning: btcd broke again https://twitter.com/brqgoo/status/1587397646125260802?s=46&t=ees6gQ0q1gXw9i89Iv_TyQ

This time around, projects other than btcd+lnd were affected because of an issue in older versions of rust-bitcoin. This includes Liquid, which Burak himself is building products for:

• electrs: Bug: "oversized vector allocation" due to large transaction (lots of witness inputs) romanz/electrs#783
• lightningdevkit: https://twitter.com/lightningdevkit/status/1587939344530145280
• liquid: https://twitter.com/Liquid_BTC/status/1587499305664913413
• mempool: https://twitter.com/glozow/status/1587403279470039046
• Greg Maxwell's thoughts re: a "Bitcoin spec": https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/yj9low/lnd_emergency_bugfix_release_0154_beta/iuu1bw2/?context=3

[satsie]

wow! thank you for all that additional context @edwargix! This is going to make for a great conversation at the next BitDevs 🚀