Merge pull request #87 from Liongrass/master

halifax meetup

Author: Liongrass

_posts/2025-04-18-halifax-socratic-01.md

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+---
+layout: post
+type: socratic
+date: "2025-04-18 15:00:00"
+title: "Halifax Socratic 001"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/halifax-bitcoin-meetup/events/307293988/
+---
+
+## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae
+
+Welcome Elenctics to tonight's Socratic Seminar!
+
+We now post the links to this seminar in advance! [Check out our Github issues for the latest.](https://github.com/VancouverBitdevs/VancouverBitdevs.github.io/issues)
+
+Today's MC: Leo
+
+## bitcoin-dev
+
+- [Starkware announces ColliderVM](https://x.com/starkwareltd/status/1910317337301152034)
+- [Mysterious old outputs being swept onchain](https://x.com/mononautical/status/1910703196672340007)
+
+## lightning-dev
+
+- [Papa swaps as an alternative to HTLCs](https://github.com/supertestnet/papa-swap)
+- [Lightning Anchors collected directly by miners](https://mempool.space/tx/e36f25371ac6c002fcdebafecdc7d87dcf897cf8a080b03acae95e4c3f867372)
+- [Pathfinding with LDK](https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/ldk-pathfinding/)
+- [How MuSig2 Is Powering Lightning Liquidity with Loop](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-02-13-loop-musig2/)
+- [Hybrid pathfinding optimization for the Lightning Network with Reinforcement Learning](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952197625002258)
+- [LND's Deadline-Aware Budget Sweeper](https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-deadline-aware-budget-sweeper/)
+- [Liquidity squeezing from your node](https://fuckedbitcoin.com/2025/04/01/liquidity-squeezing-from-your-node/)
+
+## Optech
+
+- [Cryptocurrency APT Intelligence: Unveiling Lazarus Group’s Intrusion Techniques](https://slowmist.medium.com/cryptocurrency-apt-intelligence-unveiling-lazarus-groups-intrusion-techniques-a1a6efda7d34)
+- [Demystifying the North Korean Threat](https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/03/demystifying-the-north-korean-threat)
+
+## Bitcoinomics
+
+
+
+## Network Data
+
+- [About 15.4% of $BTC payments through CoinGate use LN](https://x.com/CoinGatecom/status/1884592459667112430)
+- [800 million people have access to the Lightning Network](https://breez.technology/documents/Report_BitcoinPayments_Breez_1A1z.pdf)
+- [Wallet of Satoshi processes 21 million payments](https://x.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1889909899326583251)
+
+## Mining
+
+- [Block Template Similarities between Mining Pools](https://b10c.me/observations/12-template-similarity/)
+- [Mempool Stratum branches](https://mempool.space/stratum)
+- [Pakistan turns to bitcoin miners, AI data centers to use surplus power](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-turns-bitcoin-miners-ai-data-centers-use-surplus-power-2025-04-09/)
+
+## Token Layer
+
+- [A New Era for Stablecoins: Tether Is Coming to Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡💸](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2025-01-30-Tether-on-Lightning/)
+- [Tether Blog: USDT is coming to Lightning](https://tether.io/news/tether-brings-usdt-to-bitcoins-lightning-network-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-unstoppable-technology/)
+
+## Regulatory
+
+- [The U.S. Government Says Money Isn't Property—So It Can Take Yours](https://reason.com/2025/01/31/the-government-says-money-isnt-property-so-it-can-take-yours/)
+
+## (Central Banking) Banking Crisis
+
+
+
+## New Releases
+
+- [Alan Bits v1](https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
+- [Blink and BitDriver Team Up for Bitcoin Home Delivery in El Salvador](https://www.blink.sv/blog/bitcoin-home-delivery-in-el-salvador)
+- [Banco Bisa Introduces Bolivia’s First Regulated Crypto Custody Service Using Tether](https://decrypt.co/289033/banco-bisa-introduces-bolivias-first-regulated-crypto-custody-service-using-tether)
+
+## Events and Podcasts
+
+- [Lightning Labs Newsletter: It all comes back to Bitcoin](https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/it-all-comes-back-to-bitcoin-how)
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+- [The goat: How Malawi’s store of value is rapidly destroying the country](https://medium.com/@ianfoster/hyper-inflating-the-goat-3b8b61a5217c)
+- [https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-silicon-valleys-corrupted-libertarianism](How Silicon Valley’s Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy)
+- [Can Trump make bitcoin useful?](https://ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoin-reserve/)

_posts/2025-02-25-vancouver-socratic-32.md renamed to _posts/2025-04-29-vancouver-socratic-32.md

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 layout: post
 type: socratic
-date: "2025-02-25 19:00:00"
+date: "2025-04-29 19:00:00"
 title: "Vancouver Socratic 032"
-meetup: https://lu.ma/vanbitcoin
+meetup: https://lu.ma/12mky82j
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 ## Institutio Theologiae Elencticae