Socratic Seminar #42

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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RSVP: Bitcoin Park Meetup Event

Categories:

• Events
• News
• New Work/Research
• Bitcoin Projects
• Lightning Projects

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News

• Fedi Release 26.4.0 with stable balance transfer
• Square auto-enables bitcoin payments for US sellers
• Cove Wallet Beta for Android

New Work/Research

• Slowish blocks on Signet
• "Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure"
• verso: Bitcoin wallet privacy analyzer
• Bitcoin PIR
• Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments

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Events

• Thr April 16, 5:30p: Park 102: Workshops [non-kyc tutorial]
• Thr April 16, 7:00p: Music City Rust Devs
• Mon April 20, 5:00p: Mining Monday's: Mining Workshop, Powered by Proto
• Thr-Fri April 23-24: bitcoin++ Las Vegas
• Sat April 25, 9:00a: CLAWS & COFFEE
• Mon-Wed April 27-29: Bitcoin 2026 Las Vegas
• Thr April 30 5:30p: Philosophy for Freedom In the Age of AI
• Fri-Sat May 8-9: La Bitconf Mexico City
• Wed-Thr May 27-28: bitcoin++ Vienna
• Thr-Sat June 11-13: BTC Prague

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Bitcoin Projects

• Testing Bitcoin Core 31.0 Release Candidates
• DRAFT BIP:XXX "PQC Precommitment for Post-Quantum Migration"
• DRAFT BIP: 376 "Spending Silent Payment outputs with PSBTs"
• bdk-chain 0.23.3
• bdk-wallet 3.0.0-rc.2
• tor: enable PoW defenses for automatically created hidden services bitcoin#33414
• hellbender-wallet: A Bitcoin Multisig Coordinator

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Lightning Projects

• Reclaim liquidity from idle channels eclair#3269
• Open and accept zero reserve channels rust-lightning#4428
• Add per-peer profit scoring elcair#3247
• Release tx_signatures after async monitor update completes rust-lightning#4472
• Channel Splicing (feature 62/63) bolts#1160