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+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 76"
+meetup: https://www.meetup.com/chibitdevs/events/312832542
+---
+
+## Announcements
+
+Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar! A special thanks to Strike for the event space.
+
+Doors open at 6pm with discussion starting shortly after!
+
+[Follow ChiBitDevs on twitter](https://x.com/chibitdevs)
+
+## Chicago Bitcoin Collective Co-working Space Live!
+
+<https://www.chicagobitcoincollective.com/>
+
+## Google Quantum AI Cuts ECDSA Attack to 1,200 Qubits
+
+Google Quantum AI dropped a paper showing they can theoretically crack Bitcoin's ECDSA with fewer than 1,200 logical qubits.
+
+<https://quantumai.google/static/site-assets/downloads/cryptocurrency-whitepaper.pdf>  
+<https://www.tftc.io/google-quantum-bitcoin-ecdsa-post-quantum-shrimps/>
+
+## ProductionReady Launches
+
+"We're a 501(c)3, or in more plain language, a non-profit. We exist for the purpose of both educating new developers and funding another implementation. And we want that implementation to be conservative."
+
+<https://productionready.org/blog/productionready-launches>  
+<https://x.com/jimmysong/status/2036203291164500205>  
+
+## Two Block Fork/Reorg
+
+Rare-ish two block fork/reorg between Foundry and AntPool+ViaBTC. Foundry mined six blocks in a row.
+
+<https://bnoc.xyz/t/two-block-reorg-at-height-941880/97>  
+<https://bnoc.xyz/t/two-block-reorg-at-height-941880/97/28>  
+<https://x.com/wk057/status/2036674054971703361>  
+<https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/where-does-the-33-33-threshold-for-selfish-mining-come-from/1757#p-5233-the-selfish-mining-strategy-1>
+
+## Concensus Cleanup Demo
+
+A demo to let end users see for themselves the impact of hard to validate blocks. We have crafted a series of 6 blocks that are hard to validate, but not too much. Each should take between a handful of seconds and one minute to validate, depending on the hardware. @ajtowns is going to mine the six blocks in a row and then reorg them out, so that anyone running a Signet node at the time would see them, but they would not impose a cost to IBD forever.
+
+<https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/consensus-cleanup-demo-of-slow-blocks-on-signet/2367>  
+
+## Channel Splicing Merged into BOLT Specifications
+
+Splicing allows spending the current funding transaction to replace it with a new one that changes the capacity of the channel, allowing both peers to add or remove funds to/from their channel balance.
+
+<https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/02-peer-protocol.md#channel-splicing>  
+<https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1160>  
+
+## Evidence of Bitcoin Node Sybil Attack
+
+Node counts have shown some anomolies that are congruent with what a node sybil attack may look like.
+
+<https://x.com/lopp/status/2036055358767292799>  
+<https://x.com/willcl_ark/status/2037491687019147349>  
+
+## Machine Payments Protocol
+
+The open protocol for machine-to-machine payments. Charge for API requests, tool calls, or content—agents and apps pay per request in the same HTTP call.
+
+<https://x.com/tempo/status/2034253707303338264>  
+<https://mpp.dev/>