Add socratic 106 (#80)

* Add socratic 106

Co-authored-by: Andre Neves <andre@zebedee.io>
Co-authored-by: btsea <49500661+btsea@users.noreply.github.com>

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+layout: post
+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 106"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/282122063/
+---
+
+## Announcements
+
+Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar. A special thank you to our
+sponsors [CardCoins](https://cardcoins.co), [Chaincode
+Labs](https://chaincode.com) and [ZEBEDEE](https://zebedee.io) for food,
+refreshments and event space. There will be a demo of [Mercury Wallet's](https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet/) coinswap facility at the event. 
+
+## Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Neutrino, Taproot, and The Evolution of BiPs 157/158](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-November/019589.html)
+- [Taproot activates - A time/block line](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-November/019598.html)
+- [A fee-bumping model](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-November/019614.html)
+
+#### lightning-dev
+
+- [Route reliability<->fee trade-off control parameter](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-November/003342.html)
+- [Lightning over taproot with PTLCs](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-October/003278.html)
+- [LN Summit 2021 Notes & Summary/Commentary](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-November/003336.html)
+
+### Meetings
+
+- Bitcoin PR Review Club
+  - [23173 - Add ChainstateManager::ProcessTransaction](https://bitcoincore.reviews/23173)
+  - [23280 - Coalesce Chainstate loading sequence between {,non-}unittest codepaths](https://bitcoincore.reviews/23280)
+  - [23319 - Return fee and prevout (utxos) to getrawtransaction](https://bitcoincore.reviews/23319)
+  - [23512 - policy: Treat taproot as always active](https://bitcoincore.reviews/23512)
+- Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
+  - [October 28th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-10-28.html#l-157)
+  - [November 4th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-11-04.html#l-219)
+  - [November 11th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-11-11.html#l-628)
+  - [November 18th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-11-18.html#l-437)
+  - [November 25th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-11-25.html#l-387)
+- Bitcoin Core wallet meetings
+  - [November 19th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2021-11-19.html#l-319)
+- c-lightning meetings
+  - [November 1st](https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/c-lightning/2021-11-01-developer-call/)
+  - [November 15th](https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/c-lightning/2021-11-15-developer-call/)
+- dlc-specs meetings
+  - [November 9th](https://github.com/discreetlogcontracts/dlcspecs/pull/178)
+- Lightning specification meetings
+  - [November 8th](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/933)
+  - [November 22nd](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/issues/936)
+
+### Optech
+
+- [Newsletter #173](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/11/03/)
+- [Newsletter #174](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/11/10/)
+- [Newsletter #175](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/11/17/)
+- [Newsletter #176](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/11/24/)
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [Alex Bosworth's routing fee stats by type (ytd 2021)](https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1458827492995649538)
+- [Asus EEE 900 IBD stats](https://twitter.com/mutatrum/status/1450446230488748035)
+- [Bitcoin Network Monitor](https://www.dsn.kastel.kit.edu/bitcoin/)
+- [Discussion of Ethereum blockchain size](https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/1460202014919569410)
+- [Explore, sort and filter Bitcoin outputs](https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/outputs)
+- New plots on transactionfee.info - [feerates in blocks](https://transactionfee.info/charts/fees-package-feerates/), [taproot spending transactions](https://transactionfee.info/charts/fees-package-feerates/)
+- [Percentage of pruned nodes](https://gist.github.com/0xB10C/c9d715500665df46862e35b0e2b4209d), [discussion](https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1459000455363657738)
+- [Some experiments with mempool visualizations in Bitcoin Core](https://twitter.com/orionwl/status/1460634340354895878)
+- [taproot.watch will remain available even though taproot has activated](https://taproot.watch/)
+- Taproot activated, but delayed taproot spend inclusions in two pools - [antpool](https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1462027738898997249), [f2pool](https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1461392912600776707)
+- [The 140k (remaining) Mt Gox Coins](https://twitter.com/ErgoBTC/status/1456052923092381699)
+- [Visualizing ~16k Lightning nodes with HoloView and bokeh](https://twitter.com/pymoment/status/1456099385411084288)
+- [Whale Alerts falsely triggering on FTX change outputs](https://twitter.com/ErgoBTC/status/1462158224925368332)
+
+### Research
+
+- [Analysis and Patterns of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin](https://cri-lab.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/unk_tx_Bitcoin_IEEE_Blockchain2021.pdf)
+- [Analysis of Decentralized Mixing Services in the Greater Bitcoin Ecosystem](https://repositum.tuwien.at/handle/20.500.12708/18576)
+- [Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29396/w29396.pdf)
+- [Comparative Analysis of Lightning's Routing Clients](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9566199)
+- [Estimation of Ransomware Payments in Bitcoin Ecosystem](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355351795_Estimation_of_Ransomware_Payments_in_Bitcoin_Ecosystem)
+- [Flexible Anonymous Transactions (FLAX): Towards Privacy-Preserving and Composable Decentralized Finance](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1249)
+- [Impermanent Loss in Uniswap v3](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09192)
+- [On Cryptocurrency Wallet Design](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1522)
+- [Route Discovery in Private Payment Channel Networks](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1539)
+- [The Weighted Bitcoin Lightning Network](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13494v1)
+- [Where is the Light(ning) in the Taproot Dawn? Unveiling the Bitcoin Lightning (IP) Network](https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/264663)
+
+### InfoSec
+
+- [Analysis of Conti Ransomeware group](https://www.prodaft.com/resource/detail/conti-ransomware-group-depth-analysis), [discussion](https://twitter.com/ErgoBTC/status/1462127674973986822)
+- [BLACKSMITH: Scalable Rowhammering in the Frequency Domain](https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/blacksmith_sp22.pdf)
+- [BbZx developer phished, $55 million stolen](https://bzx.network/blog/post-mortem-update)
+- [Creamed Cream – Learn the Secret Recipe (Cream Hack Analysis)](https://mudit.blog/cream-hack-analysis/)
+- [Deep-fakes being used in social media account takeovers](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29364427)
+- [Deep reorgs on Polygon](https://polygonscan.com/blocks_forked)
+- [How to manipulate Uniswap's time-weighted average price oracles](https://mobile.twitter.com/euler_mab/status/1459314402059034634)
+- [lntxbot exploit](https://twitter.com/lntxbot/status/1457054454251917314)
+- [On the security of Booba's music video and NFTs](https://donjon.ledger.com/booba_nft/)
+- [NPM fixes private package names leak, serious authorization bug](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/npm-fixes-private-package-names-leak-serious-authorization-bug/)
+- [Some Umbrel users lightning nodes drained](https://twitter.com/getumbrel/status/1460245730971451392)
+- [Robinhood data breach effects 7 million customers](https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/11/8/data-security-incident)
+- [To Swat a Swatter](https://blog.lopp.net/to-swat-a-swatter/)
+
+## Pull Requests and repo updates
+
+### Bitcoin Core
+
+- [Make AddrMan support multiple ports per IP](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23306)
+- [Add verification to Sign, SignCompact and SignSchnorr](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22934)
+- [Full CJDNS support](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23077)
+- [Let validateaddress locate error in Bech32 address](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16807)
+- [wallet: Make a tr() descriptor by default](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22364)
+
+### rust-bitcoin
+
+- [P2TR address from untweaked key](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/691)
+
+### lnd
+
+- [channeldb+invoices: enable repeated payments to AMP invoices via new HTLC key prefix storage](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5803)
+- [etcd: enable full remote database support](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5484)
+- [Increasing LND reliablity by clustering](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/leader_election.md)
+- [peer: always send latest block header as part of ping messages](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5621)
+
+### eclair
+
+- [Preparing for onion messages](https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/1957)
+
+### c-lightning
+
+- [wallet/db_sqlite3.c: Support direct replication of SQLITE3 backends](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/4890)
+- [v0.10.2: Bitcoin Dust Consensus Rule Latest](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.10.2)
+
+### rust-lightning
+
+- [Implement channel_type negotiation](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/1078)
+- [Penalize failed channels](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/1144)
+
+### BIPs
+
+- [Minor Updates to BIP-119](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1215)
+- [BIP341 test vectors](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1225)
+
+### BOLTs
+
+- [BOLT 7: Onion message support (features 38/39)](https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/759)
+
+### BTCPay Server
+
+- [LNURL Payment Method Support](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/pull/2897)
+
+## New Releases
+- [btcpayserver v1.3.2](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.3.2) - critical security patch
+- [c-lightning v0.10.2](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.10.2) - CVE-2021-4159 patch, payment retry improvements, more
+- [fork-explorer](https://github.com/hsjoberg/fork-explorer) - see the status of a BIP9 deployment
+- [FullyNoded v0.2.30](https://github.com/Fonta1n3/FullyNoded/releases/tag/v0.2.30) - taproot support, more
+- IMMORTAN  [v0.4.6](https://github.com/btcontract/IMMORTAN/releases/tag/v0.4.6)  - PSBT and UR support,  [v0.5.6](https://github.com/btcontract/IMMORTAN/releases/tag/v0.4.6) - coin control
+- [ledger-live-desktop v2.35.0](https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-live-desktop/releases/tag/v2.35.0) - taproot support
+- [lnd 0.14.1](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.14.1-beta) - fix of cross-implementation channel open failures, hybrid tor connectivity, in-memory path finding, explicit channel negotiation, more
+- [lnvault](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLightningNetwork/comments/ql7ikm/lnvault_minecraft_lightning_network_integration/) - LN support for Minecraft
+- [mako](https://github.com/chjj/mako) - full node implementation in C
+- [rust-lightning v0.0.103](https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/releases/tag/v0.0.103) - payment retrires
+- [seedsigner v0.4.5](https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.4.5) - custom XPUB derivation paths
+- [secp256k1-py v0.14.0](https://github.com/rustyrussell/secp256k1-py/blob/1d29ab29d2f5f5642a5201efd84f8481ac4bb481/CHANGELOG.md#0140---2021-10-19-in-which-bitcoin-twitter-rescues-rusty) - schnorr interface changed, new maintainer, latest libsecp256k1, more
+- [SimpleBitcoinWallet v2.3.18](https://github.com/btcontract/wallet/releases/tag/2.3.18) - watch-only and hardware wallet support, [v2.4.18](https://github.com/btcontract/wallet/releases/tag/2.4.18) - coin control
+- [spark-wallet v0.3.0](https://github.com/shesek/spark-wallet/releases/tag/v0.3.0) - BOLT 12 offers
+- [tor v0.4.5.11](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/blob/main/ChangeLog?expanded=true&viewer=simple#L212) - v2 hidden services disabled
+- [umbrel v0.4.8](https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.8) - security update
+- [WalletWasabi v1.1.13.0](https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v1.1.13.0) - tor updates
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [Chaincode Podcast: Sanket Kanjalkar and Miniscript](https://podcast.chaincode.com/2021/11/11/sanket-miniscript.html)
+- [Covenants panel at TABConf](https://gist.github.com/JeremyRubin/2d69841755cf048f0c45bef8edf63b4c)
+- [Citadel Dispatch e42 - security focused bitcoin nodes with @nixbitcoinorg, @n1ckler, and @seardsalmon](https://citadeldispatch.com/cd42/)
+- [Citadel Dispatch e44 – using secure random number generators to generate bitcoin keys with waxwing and @raw_avocado](https://citadeldispatch.com/cd44/)
+- [Citadel Dispatch e45 – the future of mobile lightning wallets with @ericsirion, @akumaigorodski, and @fiatjaf](https://citadeldispatch.com/cd45/)
+- [LNbits: Extending the Lightning Stack with Ben Arc - LNJ051](https://lightningjunkies.net/lnbits-extending-the-lightning-stack-with-ben-arc-lnj051/)
+- [Sydney Socratic Seminar - Go Up Number (Bitcoin Betting on Twitter)](https://rumble.com/vp896g-go-up-number-bitcoin-betting-on-twitter.html)
+- [SLP319 T-Bast Lightning Protocol Privacy Exploration](https://stephanlivera.com/episode/319/)
+- [SLP320 Statechains and Mercury Wallet: A New Privacy Technique?](https://stephanlivera.com/episode/320/)
+- [TABConf 2021](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTEmnKYqfGNc5sZrxYXRrw)
+- [Taproot activation livestream](https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1459560161543176193)
+- [The Bitcoin Development Podcast Episode 1 - Mempool Policy with John Newbery and Gloria Zhao](https://brink.dev/podcast/1-mempool-policy/)
+- [The Bitcoin Development Podcast Episode 2 - Mempool Ancestors and Descendants with John Newbery and Gloria Zhao](https://brink.dev/podcast/2-mempool-ancestors-descendants/)
+
+## Mining
+
+- [Compass Mining announces 140 MW facility powered by nuclear and hydro](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/compass-mining-partner-red-jar-digital-infrastructure-bitcoin-mining)
+- [Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages](https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-to-restrict-crypto-miners-amid-power-shortages)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [1000sat payment tests](https://twitter.com/rusty_twit/status/1458994256232652805)
+- [@_Benma_ bug bounty donated to Brink](https://twitter.com/_benma_/status/1458576700225228807)
+- [A story of the double spend during the March 2013 fork](https://twitter.com/satofishi/status/1443020137611866112)
+- [Coinjoin done right](https://reyify.com/blog/coinjoin-done-right)
+- [Covenant-style vaults with ANYPREVOUT](http://yakshaver.org/2021/11/18/covenants.html)
+- [Bitcoin's Carbon Footprint](https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-carbon-footprint/)
+- [Bitcoin vs Ethereum – Blockchain Size](https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-blockchain-size/)
+- [Blockspace supply is inelastic](https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1454245727664758787)
+- [BSC validators angry with node performance](https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/issues/553), [discussion](https://twitter.com/EdgarArout/status/1461393012395843591)
+- [Compact Block Filters Deep Dive](http://bitcoin-dev.blog/blog/bip158-deep-dive/)
+- [Default btcpayserver instance too small for lnd in pruned mode](https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1458607844849192963)
+- [Designing a foolproof script upgrading mechanism](https://medium.com/muunwallet/designing-a-foolproof-script-upgrading-mechanism-cc956950df92)
+- [Discussion of pruning Ethereum nodes](https://twitter.com/lightclients/status/1462576116359569411)
+- [Gemini Sponsors Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Fanquake](https://www.gemini.com/blog/gemini-sponsors-bitcoin-core-maintainer-fanquake)
+- [History of BIP32](https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1464802687355179010)
+- [How to setup Lightning message channels in Joinmarket](https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/blob/de4715049117dde79b23cc49d2344c2c2b72285c/docs/lightning-message-channels.md)
+- [How will lightning announcements work post taproot?](https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt/status/1460081817609027595)
+- [Introducing tbDEX](https://tbd54566975.ghost.io/introducing-tbdex/)
+- [Jeremy Rubin on ANYPREVOUT](https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1460349481518465025)
+- [Ledger will support PSBTs and Descriptors in v2.0 app](https://blog.ledger.com/bitcoin-2/)
+- [Neutrino/taproot issues](https://twitter.com/ryanthegentry/status/1455678599357505536)
+- [Mercury wallet statechain torch](https://twitter.com/BobMcElrath/status/1459265455479271424)
+- [Metal Bitcoin Seed Storage Stress Test (Round V)](https://blog.lopp.net/metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-tests-round-v/)
+- [MEV affecting p2p/networking layer of Avalanche](https://mobile.twitter.com/bertcmiller/status/1463191132234563585)
+- [PeerSwap - Decentralized P2P LN Balancing Protocol](https://blockstream.com/assets/downloads/2021-11-16-PeerSwap_Announcement.pdf)
+- [Preventing Channel Jamming](https://blog.bitmex.com/preventing-channel-jamming/)
+- [Response to AJ Towns’ Blog Post about Liquid Consensus Changes](https://medium.com/blockstream/response-to-aj-towns-blog-post-about-liquid-consensus-changes-931c1055dee5)
+- [Square Crypto awards grant to @_Bosch_](https://mobile.twitter.com/sqcrypto/status/1454114943444430850)
+- [Tor Project sees decline in server numbers, will offer rewards for new bridge operators](https://therecord.media/tor-project-sees-decline-in-server-numbers-will-offer-rewards-for-new-bridge-operators/)
+- [The first BDK Taproot TX: a look at the code (Part 1)](https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/2021/11/first-bdk-taproot-tx-look-at-the-code-part-1/)
+- [Verifying dice seed generation on seedsigner](https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/blob/main/docs/dice_verification.md)
+- [Virtual load-balancing for lightning nodes: how to do it at home](https://twitter.com/fiatjaf/status/1455515350045536259)
+- [Wasabi Wallet 1BTC Lightning Network privacy grant](https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/1-btc-ln-privacy-grant/)
+- [Why is bitcoin inherently volatile?](https://gist.github.com/fernandonm/81cb21bdce0910055de32b98ee4119e1)