BitDevs Amsterdam meeting 006!

It’s time for another BitDevs! A big thanks to Bitonic for sponsoring us with the meeting space and snacks! Drinks and light snacks will be provided, so please ensure you have some dinner beforehand or bring it along to the seminar.

Friday, August 11th 2023 @ 7PM

Doors open at 6:00PM and we will try to start promptly at 7PM. As a reminder, the ground rules of BitDevs are as follows:

1. No photos, videos, or recordings.
2. Chatham House Rule: you may reiterate the contents of the meeting without attribution.

These rules exist so that BitDevs participants can speak freely within the event.

Agenda

• Covenant Taxonomy: a summary of past and present covenant proposals and a brief explanation of how they work
  • https://rusty.ozlabs.org/2023/07/09/covenant-taxonomy.html
• Ark: half the interactivity, no soft fork required!
  • The simplest ARK explanation
• Towards a trustless Bitcoin wallet with Miniscript
  • https://www.ledger.com/blog/towards-a-trustless-bitcoin-wallet-with-miniscript

Noteworthy PRs

P2P

• #27213: Diversify automatic output connections with respect to networks
• #27411: Restrict self-advertisements with privacy networks to avoid fingerprinting

XOR’ing blocks

• #28060: Teach AutoFile how to XOR
• #28207 mempool: Persist with XOR
• #28052 blockstorage: XOR blocksdir*.dat

Policy

• #28132 policy: Enable full-rbf by default
• #28130: Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default
• #28217: set DEFAULT_PERMIT_BAREMULTISIG to false

BIPs and Proposals

Research

Misc

• https://milksad.info - CVE disclosure for libbitcoin