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Seattle BitDevs Socratic Seminars

• June 27, 2024
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seattle_bitdevs's Issues

12.21.2023 - Suggested Topic - potential UASF on CTV and vault?

Are we close to a potential UASF on CTV and vault? Not time sensitive, can wait until future meetings as needed.

Mentioned on most recent Bitcoin.Review #57
https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-57/

I believe this is the github they reference in that podcast:
https://github.com/jamesob/simple-ctv-vault

Multisig related

Missed from last time:
Stateless 3/5 collaborative multisig with TWO institutions.

Maybe adjacent additional topics:
unchained raising personal vault to $250 fee, preciously free
Liana and new mini script wallet potential

202406 Fedimint Issue: Inability to change Guardians' DNS

Quick Summary: If you cannot swap a guardian's DNS, if their DNS is compromised they are offline. DNS is a centralized system where you never truly own a DNS and various entities can take them from you at any time. Representing a previously unrecognized issue in Fedimint's threat model.

Description by the Mutiny Wallet Team:
https://damus.io/nevent1qqs07vzaf20nkacc3qp0j2hjzjyynfynf9q9qpa9d23uf7n7prt2cdqpzamhxue69uhkyarr945hgctvd9sjummwd35kuegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduxvsg0d

GitHub Issue on the topic:
fedimint/fedimint#5482

02-29 topic suggestion

Big Topic 1 - Pros and cons and discussion of:

1. BIP85 with cold card
2. seedxor
3. multisig
   Key concerns:
   relative merits of each
   ability for no coiner family members to recover

Big Topic 2 - UTXO Consolidation

202403 - Bitcoin Core Snap Package

Topic: Bitcoin Core Snap Package
This packaging has no way to verify the signatures yourself:
https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/
Usage of this packaging is much larger than I think many people realize because if you're on Ubuntu or a distro that natively supports Snaps it is very clean and easy to install.
Curious for people's thoughts and discussion of tradeoffs.
If we believe we can trust the current Snap you can use "snap refresh --hold bitcoin-core" command to turn off automatic update, which seem to be the biggest concern with Snaps after signature verification.