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Miami Bitcoin Developers
Socratic # 16

Topics:

Resizing Lightning Channels Off-Chain With Hierarchical Channels
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-March/003886.html

Bitcoin hash rate hits ATH
https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/


Bitcoin dev kit alpha released
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.0

Most users on nostr using custodial lightning wallets for zaps
https://twitter.com/benthecarman/status/1638006709741289474

More bitcoin transactions USD denominated than before
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveUsingWords/status/1625482839327121408

How many confirmations is enough?
https://blog.lopp.net/how-many-bitcoin-confirmations-is-enough/

Bitcoin exchanges presence on lightning at ATH
https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1620205074160193538

Coinbase employees targeted with SMS phishing attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-cyberattack-targeted-employees-with-fake-sms-alert/

Musig2/Taproot for Loop In Loop Out
https://twitter.com/MichaelLevin/status/1646534766651670528

New reference implementation for Stratum V2
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/developers-announce-stratum-v2-update-for-decentralized-bitcoin-mining

Openbazaar relaunching
https://twitter.com/brianchoffman/status/1644732091752431619

Paxful shuts down, civkit launched
https://twitter.com/raypaxful/status/1646631661486985228


Peer storage of lightning channel backups
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/5361

IFTTT tool for bitcoin transactions
https://psbt.io/

Handcrank - drivechain proposal with no soft fork
https://github.com/supertestnet/handcrank

Mercury Wallet releases Mercury Node, a lightweight bitcoin lightning node
https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-node