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Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22

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+date: '2023-10-18'
+title: 'Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22'
+type: Doc
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+
+![Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22](/bitcoin-socratic-seminar-22.jpg)
+
+It’s almost time for <a href="https://www.meetup.com/atlantabitdevs/events/296345921/">Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #22</a>!
+
+## What is a Socratic Seminar?
+
+Inspired by other BitDevs meetups around the US, our Socratic Seminar events
+are formatted to foster debate, information sharing and lively discussion.
+
+1. Discussion topics are provided ahead of the event
+2. The event moderator(s) leads the audience through the topics
+3. Raise your hand to grab the mic and participate in the conversation
+4. We go to a bar afterwards
+
+## Logistics for Tonight
+
+Due to a scheduling conflict with our hosts, we're not going to be at NCR. This time, we'll try a Socratic Seminar at ATL BitLab and see how it goes. If this is your first time attending a meetup at BitLab, follow these <a href="https://atlantabitdevs.org/parking-instructions-for-atl-bitlab/" target="_blank">parking instructions</a> and join our <a href="https://atlantabitdevs.org/telegram/" target="_blank">telegram channel</a> in case you need to ask for help finding us the night of the event.
+
+## Topics
+
+### 🧡 Bitcoin
+
+[20 BTC mining fee accident](https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1701968647579668939)
+
+[Taproot Assets Protocol BIPs](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021938.html)
+
+[Bitcoin covenant tools softfork PR](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28550)
+
+#### ZeroSync STARK header chain verifier demo
+
+The ZeroSync project announced a demo and repo using STARKs to prove and verify a chain of Bitcoin block headers.
+
+[ZeroSync Announcement](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/19/#zerosync-project-launches)
+
+[ZeroSync Demo](https://zerosync.org/demo/)
+
+[ZeroSync Repository](https://github.com/ZeroSync/header_chain)
+
+#### Runestones
+
+Caset Rodarmor (creator of Ord) <a href="https://x.com/rodarmor/status/1707135597150949807?s=46&t=P_CqSdYeB3G5XlcihAXNMg">tweets</a> about working on "Runestones".
+
+[Runestones Repository](https://github.com/casey/runestone)
+
+#### BitVM
+
+[BitVM paper - Compute Anything on Bitcoin](https://twitter.com/robin_linus/status/1711378768059584723?t=8zCkc5Tm6EXg_mdY_Ti8Uw&s=19)
+
+[BitVM Summary by Bob Bodily](https://twitter.com/BobBodily/status/1711581484254192013?t=92AgHWtDJn8x140RsfoDBw&s=19)
+
+### ⚡️ Lightning
+
+[blip-0029: Taproot Asset Protocol Channels](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004089.html)
+
+[Practical PTLCs, a little more concretely](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004088.html)
+
+[Amboss launches Hydro liquidity service](https://twitter.com/ambosstech/status/1702351188509995104)
+
+[LDK #2413](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/issues/2413) supports sending payments to [blinded paths](https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/rendez-vous-routing/) and allows receiving payments to paths where a single final hop is hidden (blinded) from the spender.
+
+[PR #2514](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/issues/2514), also merged this week, provides other support for blinded payments in LDK.
+
+[LDK #2371](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/issues/2371) adds support for managing payments using [offers](https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/offers/). It allows a client application using LDK to use an offer to register its intent to pay an invoice, timing out the payment attempt if a sent offer never results in a received invoice, and then using existing code in LDK to pay the invoice (including retrying if the first attempts don’t succeed).
+
+[Scaling Lightning with Covenants](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004092.html)
+
+[LND Route blinding merged](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7267)
+
+[Doppler used to find issue in Eclair](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2739#event-10489586124)
+
+[LND 0.17 released - includes simple taproot channels](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-10-03-lnd-0.17-launch/)
+
+[River report on LN growth](https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/)
+
+### 🧠 AI
+
+[GPUtpoia - rent out your GPU for AI operations, earn bitcoin](https://gputopia.ai/beta)
+
+[Start9 launches self-hosted LLM and self-hosted StableDiffusion](https://twitter.com/start9labs/status/1704199417329516570)
+
+[ChatGPT will be able to parse images and speak](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak)
+
+### 🔒 Infosec & Privacy
+
+[Veilid - successor to TOR from Cult of the Dead Cow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1lKscAMDQ)
+
+[Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol](https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/)
+
+[Obscura VPN - Carl Dong launches VPN service that cant track activity](https://twitter.com/carl_dong/status/1707089015604670770)
+
+### 📊 Business
+
+[Chipper adds Lightning](https://chippercash.com/) - TBD
+
+[Blockstream Greenlight open for business](https://blog.blockstream.com/greenlight-is-now-open-for-business/)
+
+### 🟣 Nostr
+
+[Exit: backup twitter data and import to Nostr](https://exit.pub/)
+
+[$prism: Nostr lightning prism protocol](https://primal.net/e/note1aalsryyzglk6kryprwewdhxlvtyqj38szc7gd4mc9jr6z6cs4ttsa9usc3)
+
+[Njump - nostr profiles UI](https://njump.me/)
+
+### 🎉 Fun
+
+[Footage released of Hal Finney presenting at Crypto ‘98](https://x.com/trustmachinesco/status/1704535500055527831?s=20)
+
+[Bitcoin / USD pricing oracle that only depends on a Bitcoin Core node](https://x.com/SteveSimple/status/1704864674431332503?s=20)