Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #48 - Topic Suggestions

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Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #48

📅 Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
📍 Location: ATL BitLab

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Topic Suggestions

Post topic suggestions as comments below. Each comment should include:

• Topic title
• Link(s)
• Brief description

Approval: React with 🚀 to indicate interest. Topics approved by @sbddesign or @alexlwn123 will be added to the event page.

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Binohash: Transaction Introspection Without Softforks — robin_linus on X — First mined transaction demonstrating limited covenants using only existing Bitcoin script, potentially eliminating the need for a light client in BitVM bridges.

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Recent OP_RETURN Output Statistics — Delving Bitcoin — ajtowns analyzes OP_RETURN usage since Bitcoin Core v30.0 relaxed mempool limits; only 0.44% of OP_RETURN data used the new larger sizes.

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Bitcoin PIPEs v2 — Delving Bitcoin — Protocol enforcing covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes using witness encryption on schnorr keys.

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Second Releases hArk-based Ark Software — Docs — Ark v0.1.0-beta.6 uses hash-lock Ark (hArk) to eliminate synchronous interactivity during rounds.

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Amboss Announces RailsX — Blog — Lightning-native DEX platform using Taproot Assets for swaps and financial services.

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Nunchuk Adds Silent Payment Support — Announcement — Nunchuk now supports sending to silent payment addresses.

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Electrum 4.7.0 Submarine Swaps — Release Notes — Users can pay onchain using Lightning balance via submarine swaps.

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Secp256k1 Optimization — Delving Bitcoin — Significant performance optimizations to the secp256k1 library.

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PQ Provers for P2PKH Outputs — Delving Bitcoin — Proposal for post-quantum proof schemes to protect legacy P2PKH outputs.

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LND 0.20.1-beta — Release — Maintenance release with gossip panic recovery, reorg protection, and LSP detection heuristics.

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[BIP Draft] 24 nVersion Bits for General Purpose Use — bitcoin-dev mailing list — Matt Corallo proposes expanding nVersion nonce space from 16 to 24 bits (replacing BIP 320) to give miners more header-only mining headroom without rolling nTime.

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Algorithm Agility for Bitcoin — bitcoin-dev mailing list — Ethan Heilman and others discuss approaches to maintain Bitcoin security against quantum and classic breaks in signature algorithms.

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The Limitations of Cryptographic Agility in Bitcoin — bitcoin-dev mailing list — Pieter Wuille examines the constraints and trade-offs of adding cryptographic agility to Bitcoin's consensus rules.

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Hourglass V2 Update — bitcoin-dev mailing list — Mike Casey's updated proposal to rate-limit P2PK UTXO spending (1 BTC/block) as quantum attack mitigation, with discussion from Jameson Lopp and others.