Online Socratic Seminar #21

Session links (27.5.2026 20:30)

• Jitsi

Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research

• Pruning Hypertrees for the Lax and Lazy
• PACTS - protecting your bitcoin from a quantum sunset
• UltrafastSecp256k1
• CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash
• 2140 annual report
• Ledger hardware implant teardown
• localhost: Post Quantum Cryptography Group

Miscellaneous

• New Bitcoin Fork (free coins!)
• Ecash.com - BIP300 Fork
• The personality and motivational characteristics
• Quantum Attack Game Theory
• Knotzi Death March
• RIP Bitnodes
• New BitKey with screen
• Project Eleven Awards 1 BTC Q-Day Prize for Largest Quantum Attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography to Date
• The predictable failure of the QDay Prize

Network Data

• Current BIP-110 signaling
• BIP-54: Block propagation and validation duration during slow-to-validate blocks on Signet

Local/Legal

• Frank Schäffler (FDP) in Welt: Jetzt greift der Staat nach dem Bitcoin
• Bitcoinsteuer.lol

Pull requests

BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals

• BIP-361: Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset

Bitcoin Core

• Bitcoin Core 31.0 release notes