Location

The event will be hosted at Jenga Leo:

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

Announcements

Join us on our Fourteenth 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

• Quantum computer upgrade path
• Consensus cleanup timewarp grace period
• Bitcoin year in review 2024 by Jameson Lopp
• Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a Bitcoin Core bug
• Transitory Soft Forks for Consensus Cleanup Forks
• Bitcoin Core 28.1 Release

Mining

MC: Simon

• Pooled mining

Lightning Network

MC: Isaack

• Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance
• Insights into channel depletion
• Contract-level relative timelocks
• Multiparty LN-Symmetry variant with penalties for limiting published updates

Ecash & Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: okjodom

• Ecash TIDES using Cashu and Stratum v2
• Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin
• Offchain DLCs

Upcoming Events & Announcements

MC: TBD

• VIRTUAL ASSETS AND VIRTUAL ASSET SERVICE Bill Kenya