If you can't make it to the main event please join us at Live Bait on 23rd and Madison around 9:30PM



Message from our Sponsors: Paxos is hiring a Blockchain Engineer (https://www.paxos.com/careers-list/blockchain-engineer)!



Presentations:



• Matt Corallo - Relay Network (http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/) + FIBRE (http://bitcoinfibre.org/)



• Jimmy Song - Scaling Bankchain (https://www.paxos.com/bankchain), a private and permissioned blockchain based on bitcoin, but designed to settle transactions between regulated financial institutions. Jimmy will be presenting how to use asynchronous programming and lots of RAM to achieve 10k transactions per second on a single blockchain.



Discussion Topics:



Github Issues/Pull Requests

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8756

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8694

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8735

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8723

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8865

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8719

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8753

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8709

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8704

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8661 (merged)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8636

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8526 (/merged)



Weekly Meeting Notes

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/09/15/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/09/22/



Network Stats

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1w2Xy-o9-QQb01OYmJQQjRDY28/view



Simulation based Evaluation of Coin Selection Strategies

http://murch.one/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CoinSelection.pdf



Limiting excessive SignatureHash operation

https://github.com/jl2012/bips/blob/sighash/bip-sighash.mediawiki



Drivechain using OP_COUNT_ACKS

https://github.com/rootstock/bips/blob/83ef47c2aa615d74eb5e56402781170cb8514afe/BIP-R10.md



BIP 134: Flexible Transactions

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/445

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-September/013164.html



Xthin vs. Compact Blocks

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/54rbl1/xthin_vs_compact_blocks_slides_from_bu_conference/d84hpto



ASICBoost

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-October/013190.html

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-October/013184.html



MimbleWimble

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/mimblewimble-andytoshi-INCOMPLETE-DRAFT[masked].pdf

https://soundcloud.com/heryptohow/mimblewimble-andrew-poelstra-peter-wuille-brian-deery-and-chris-odom



Atomic Swaps

http://popeller.io/index.php/2016/09/28/atomic-swaps/



Lightning Network

What is the Lightning Network and how can it help Bitcoin scale?

http://coincenter.org/entry/what-is-the-lightning-network



Accepting/processing payments over Lightning

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/54hvsh/will_lightning_require_rewriting_the_payment/d83c1p1?context=3



[Lightning-dev] Testing a Flare-like routing implementation on 2500 AWS nodes

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2016-September/000614.html

https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/bitfury-lightning-network-algorithm-successfully-tested-935efd43e92b#.mkz0tah1h



Bcoin

https://medium.com/@PurseIO/introducing-bcoin-fdfcb22dfa34#.ugd65tge6



The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/09/18/security-alert-geth-nodes-crash-due-memory-bug/

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/09/22/ethereum-network-currently-undergoing-dos-attack/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/54jbvh/quick_update_attacker_has_changed_strategy/



Do Multiple Implementations Make Ethereum More Reliable?

https://petertodd.org/2016/multiple-implementations-consensus-systems



CSRF Vulnerability Allows for Remote Compromise of Monero Wallets

https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/csrf-vulnerability-allows-for-remote-compromise-of-monero-wallets/



Electrum - Thomas Voegtlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjYCXOyDy7Y



Brainwallet Cracking

https://rya.nc/forensic-bitcoin-cracking.html



Jute w/ Secure DAG Sorting Algorithm

https://gist.github.com/Taek42/3e4f029261b5719e4587fe4972fb904a



Improving Bitcoin’s Privacy and Scalability with TumbleBit

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/09/13/improving-bitcoins-privacy-and-scalability-with-tumblebit/



Smarter Signatures: Experiments in Verification

https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/ID2020DesignWorkshop/blob/master/final-documents/smarter-signatures.pdf



Transparency Overlays and Applications

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/915.pdf



Proofs of Proofs of Work with Sublinear Complexity

http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/KLS16.pdf



Large DDoS attacks targeting industry giants over the past few days

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1599694



Are DDoS attacks a threat to the decentralised internet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u7bURE6Ss



Deep down the certificate pinning rabbit hole of "Tor Browser Exposed"

http://seclists.org/dailydave/2016/q3/51

(related) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPF71iYmVY - SSL And The Future of Authenticity with Moxie Marlinspike



Twice the Bits, Twice the Trouble: Vulnerabilities Induced by Migrating to 64-Bit Platforms

https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/Medien-DB/sec/pubs/2016-ccs.pdf



Blinded Tokens as Captcha Alternative

https://github.com/cloudflare/challenge-bypass-specification



Lattice Cryptography Library

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/lattice-cryptography-library/



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