Location

The event will be hosted at Jenga Leo:

12th Floor WESTPARK TOWERS | Mpesi Ln, Nairobi | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Eleventh Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Bitcoin

MC: Brandon

• Bitcoin Core V28.0 release
  • RPC breakage with V28 and LND
• New advisory have been added to Bitcoin Core - CVE-2024-35202
• Bloating of Testnet 4 UTXO set
• MuSig2 merged libsecp256k1

Mining

MC: Simon

• Ocean DATUM
• BLOCK mining update

Lightning Network

MC: Isaack

• Hybrid Jamming Mitigation: Results and Updates
• LN Summit 2024 Notes & Summary/Commentary

Ecash

MC: Jodom

• Fedimint: Web SDK is here!
• Cashu : Tap to pay with bearer tokens - absolute wiiild!
• Bitsacco: Have you heard of Bitsacco OS?
• Highlighted ecash resources from bitcoin++ Berlin:
  • The second renaissance of ecash
  • Federated ecash mints 101
  • Hashpools - a new kind of mining pool powered by ecash

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: TBD

• Is Tor till safe to use?
• Ark on Bitcoin is here

Upcoming Events

MC: TBD

• Africa Bitcoin Conference : Dec 9th - 11th, 2024
  • ABC Fellowship, X thread
  • Btrust Developer Day