Socratic Seminar #6

Location

The event is hosted at Respetech by nully0x:

22 Fairtrade center, Bambari Crescent, Wuse, Abuja

Map

Agenda

Announcements

We are excited to introduce our fifth Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor BTrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! by creating an issue on out repo BitDevs Repo Where to find topics?

In Bitcoin

MC: nully0x

• Chaincode Labs - Bitcoin and Quantum Computing Report
  • Bitcoin and Quantum Computing:Current Status and Future Directions
• Public disclosure of one vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core <29.0
  • CVE-2024-52919 - Remote crash due to addr message spam (part 2)
• OP _RETURN
  • Antoine Poinsot - Relay Policy and OP_RETURN
    • Bitcoin Core OP RETURN and spam explained by Antoine Poinsot
  • OP_RETURN limits: Pros and Cons
  • Behind the OP_RETURN Drama
  • Greg Maxwell post on Reddit
  • Cashu token in a OP_RETURN.
  • More than 42 BTC are now forever lost in provably unspendable OP_RETURN outputs.
• The Spam problem of Bitcoin and Unpermissioned Broadcast Networks in general
• Proposal to solve the spam war: configurable data blob relay policy
• Dust Expiry: Clean the UTXO set from spam
• UTXO Set Size

Bitcoin Core Tech

• A brief introduction to a LND node and it works.
• How routing works between LND nodes.
• Introduction to gRPC and how it works.
• Realtime birectional communication using gRPC.
• gRPC vs HTTP

Refreshment Break, Chill and Chat

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: Adamu

• Nostr 101

News

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter Updates
• Remember to contribute Good First Issue

Events

MC: nully0x

• Africa Bitcoin Conference, December 3TH – 5TH, 2025
• Bitcoin Conferences