seminar 41

Author: reez

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+title = "NashBitDevs Socratic Seminar #41"
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+### Agenda
+
+5:00pm Meet and greet and pizza
+6:00pm Socratic seminar discussion of various bitcoin topics
+7:30pm Further hangout TBD
+
+### Location
+
+The event is hosted at [**Bitcoin Park**](https://bitcoinpark.com):
+
+VIP conference room
+1910 21st Ave S
+Nashville, TN  37212
+
+[Map](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1910+21st+Ave+S,+Nashville,+TN+37212/@36.1347819,-86.8029863,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8864669fea1ce71d:0xdc34986293b94f39!8m2!3d36.1347819!4d-86.8007923)
+
+[Parking Info](/about/bitcoinpark-parking)
+
+### Announcements
+
+Join us for the NashBitDevs [Socratic Seminar](/about)! A special thank you to our
+sponsors [Bitcoin Park](https://bitcoinpark.co/) for hosting us and for providing the pizza.
+
+### Reminders
+
+- No photos, videos, audio recording
+- [Chatham House Rule](https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/chatham-house-rule)
+- Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
+- Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! [Where to find topics?](/about/find-topics)
+- Use sats to pay for drinks from the cafe via the BTCPay server terminal
+
+### Raffle
+
+- Guess the [next block nonce](https://nonce.lab.bitcoinpark.com/)
+  - Must be 8 hex characters, `0-9` and `A-F`, eg. `9A74E2B1`
+- Winner(s) ranked by numeric closeness to next block nonce
+
+### Socratic Seminar
+
+#### Demos
+
+- [Stable Channels](https://github.com/toneloc/stable-channels) from [toneloc](https://github.com/toneloc)
+
+#### News
+
+- ["A Layman's Guide to BIP-110" by J Lopp](https://blog.lopp.net/a-laymans-guide-to-bip-110/)
+- [localprobe](https://0xb10c.github.io/localprobe/)
+
+#### Mailing List Discussion
+
+- ["[BIP Proposal] Output Script Descriptor Annotations" by C Raw](https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/ozjr1lF3Rkc)
+
+#### Bitcoin Projects
+
+##### Core
+
+- ["rpc,net: Add private broadcast RPCs" bitcoin#34329](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/34329) adds two new RPCs for managing private transaction broadcasts
+- ["build: Embedded ASMap [3/3]: Build binary dump header file" bitcoin#28792](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28792)
+- [The future of the Bitcoin Core GUI](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/the-future-of-the-bitcoin-core-gui/2253)
+
+##### BDK
+
+- ["Add spent/created_txouts to SPK and Keychain TxOut indexes" bdk#2081](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/pull/2081)
+
+#### Lightning Projects
+
+- [Gossip Observer: New project to monitor the Lightning P2P network](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/gossip-observer-new-project-to-monitor-the-lightning-p2p-network/2105)
+
+#### New Work / Research
+
+- [Introducing UltrafastSecp256k1: A Multi-Architecture Exploration of Secp256k1 Optimizations](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/introducing-ultrafastsecp256k1-a-multi-architecture-exploration-of-secp256k1-optimizations/2280)
+- [Argo MAC: Garbling with Elliptic Curve MACs](https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/049)