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+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 111 (draft)"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/284293838/
+---
+
+## Announcements
+
+Please join us for our 111th Socratic Seminar. If you can't make it to the main event please join us at [Draught 55](https://www.draught55.com/) for food and merriment around 9:30PM. Thanks to our friends at [BNY Mellon](https://www.bnymellon.com/), [CardCoins](https://cardcoins.co), [Chaincode Labs](https://chaincode.com) and [Zebedee](https://zebedee.io/) for food, refreshments and event space.
+
+A final topic list will be posted on bitdevs.org the evening before the event. You can keep an eye on potential topics through our [link aggregator service](https://www.zotero.org/groups/691739/devsny/collections/JZ3HR9W5). You can also open a pull request against this branch with a topic suggestion or leave a comment in the PR!
+
+## Presentation
+
+## Mailing Lists  Bitcoin Optech
+
+### Mailing Lists
+
+#### bitcoin-dev
+
+#### lightning-dev
+
+#### dlc-dev
+
+### Optech
+- [Newsletter #194](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/04/06/)
+- [Newsletter #195](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/04/13/)
+- [Newsletter #196](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/04/20/)
+- [Newsletter #197](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/04/27/)
+
+### Meetings
+
+- Bitcoin PR Review Club
+  - [24571 Prevent block index fingerprinting by sending additional getheaders messages (p2p)](https://bitcoincore.reviews/24571)
+  - [21726 Improve Indices on pruned nodes via prune blockers (utxo db and indexes, rpc/rest/zmq)](https://bitcoincore.reviews/21726)
+  - [24538 bug fix: update for ancestor inclusion using modified fees, not base (mining)](https://bitcoincore.reviews/24538)
+  - [24644 Add tracepoints and algorithm information to coin selection (wallet)](https://bitcoincore.reviews/24644)
+- Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
+  - [March 31st](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2022-03-31.html#l-515)
+  - [April 7th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2022-04-07.html#l-223)
+  - [April 14th](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2022-04-14.html#l-324)
+  - [April 21st](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2022-04-21.html#l-338)
+- Bitcoin Core wallet meetings
+  - April 08 cancelled
+  - [April 22nd](https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2022-04-22.html#l-290)
+- dlc-specs meetings
+  - [April 12th](https://github.com/discreetlogcontracts/dlcspecs/pull/191)
+- Lightning specification meetings
+  - No minutes
+
+## Network Data
+- [Hashrate over time](https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler/status/1510149508767764483)
+- [Relay latency over the years](https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1517857150164520967)
+
+## Research
+
+- [Ruben Somsen: Silent Payments Talk](https://rumble.com/v12kuz7-bitcoin-silent-payments.html)
+- [Optech: Silent Payments Summary](https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/04/06/#delinked-reusable-addresses)
+
+## InfoSec
+
+## Pull Requests and repo updates
+
+### Bitcoin Core
+- [Taproot addresses in Bitcoin Core GUI](https://twitter.com/josibake/status/1518607258665553921)
+
+### rust-bitcoin
+
+### secp256k1
+
+### secp256k1-zkp
+
+### BIPs
+- [MuSig2 proposed](https://github.com/jonasnick/bips/blob/musig2/bip-musig2.mediawiki)
+
+### eclair
+
+### Core Lightning (CLN, formerly c-lightning)
+- [c-lightning renamed to Core Lightning](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/5165)
+
+### lnd
+
+### rust-lightning
+
+### BOLTS
+
+### New Releases
+- [Bitcoin Core 23.0 released](https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/23.0/)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+## Mining
+- [Energizing Bitcoin Conference recap](https://blog.hashrateindex.com/brandon-wants-to-destroy-your-industry-everything-you-missed-in-houston-for-digital-wildcatters-empower/)
+- [More Efficient M50 Series of WhatsMiner announced](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/microbt-announces-m50-bitcoin-miners)
+- [Braiins' Mining Insights runs down Bitcoin Mining & The Grid (Part 1): Generators](https://braiins.com/blog/bitcoin-mining-the-grid-generators)
+- [Braiins' Mining Insights runs down Bitcoin Mining & The Grid (Part 2): Transmission, Curtailment, and Behind-The-Meter](https://braiins.com/blog/bitcoin-mining-electric-grid-transmission-curtailment-behind-the-meter)
+- [Luxor's Hashrate Index blog provides a recap of Digital Wildcatter's Energizing Bitcoin Conference, A conference held for miners and energy professionals in late March in Houston, TX](https://blog.hashrateindex.com/brandon-wants-to-destroy-your-industry-everything-you-missed-in-houston-for-digital-wildcatters-empower/)
+- [US Sanctions Russian Crypto Mining Hosting Provider Bitriver](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/20/us-sanctions-russian-crypto-mining-host-bitriver/)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+- [2022-04-07: Secretary Yellen publicly remarks on Bitcoin](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706)
+- [Vitalik Buterin: In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism](https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/04/01/maximalist.html)