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+type: socratic
+title: "Socratic Seminar 78"
+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)
+
+## CBC/F&C events
+
+<https://www.chicagobitcoincollective.com/>
+
+## A Post-Quantum Path for BIP 324
+
+Bitcoin mailing list post about making BIP 324, the peer to peer encryption BIP for Bitcoin, post quantum secure.
+<https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/n_5WuKVYqwI/m/lBooLis3AQAJ>
+
+## BIP452: P2P UTXO Set Sharing
+
+"PR2137 introduces BIP452, which introduces the possibility to share the UTXO set over the P2P layer. The proposal defines a way to improve the assumeUTXO feature by providing a way for new nodes to receive the UTXO set directly from peers, instead of from external sources." - [bitcoin++ Insider Edition](https://x.com/btcinsider__/status/2063988292400316596)  
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2137>
+
+## BIP 450: Formosa—Seed encoding by themed mnemonic stories
+
+Formosa builds upon BIP-0039 by organizing mnemonic words into themed sentences with syntactic roles (e.g., subject, verb, adjective, object, place). Each sentence draws vocabulary from a coherent semantic domain — medieval fantasy, science fiction, nature, finance, or any custom theme — enabling the user to form vivid mental images that reduce memorization effort per bit of entropy.
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0450.mediawiki>  
+
+## BIP 449: OP_TWEAKADD - x-only key tweak addition
+
+This proposal defines a new tapscript opcode, OP_TWEAKADD, that takes an x-only public key and a 32-byte integer t on the stack and pushes the x-only public key corresponding to P + t*G, where P is the lifted point for the input x-coordinate and G is the secp256k1 generator. The operation mirrors the Taproot tweak used by BIP340 signers and enables simple, verifiable key modifications inside script without revealing private keys or relying on hash locks.
+<https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0449.md>  
+
+## CUBE: Bitcoin smart contracts built on Ark
+
+Cube is a virtual machine designed to enable trusless smart contract execution natively on Bitcoin. Providing a fully trustless execution environment with unilateral exit, Cube ensures users retain complete control over their funds.
+<https://medium.com/cube-bitcoin/introducing-cube-8b3702e470a5>  
+
+## Electrum Protocol 1.7
+
+Key feature of Electrum Protocol 1.7 would allow wallets to rescan for addresses without requiring xpubs.
+<https://x.com/Erik17192799/status/2059694531293958486>  
+<https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-protocol/pull/2>  
+
+## Nimdolf: Non-interactive Mint Delegation on Liveness Failure
+
+This proposal improves liveness guarantees for custodial ecash mints with on-chain reserves. It allows a mint operator to delegate control of mint reserves to third-party mint operators in a non-interactive way.
+<https://gist.github.com/lukechilds/302e7fa04b09d6e4568bdcd64cb43356>  
+
+## Bitaxe, Public Pool and MKPool now support Stratum V2
+
+Bitaxe
+<https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2062892299579691266>  
+Public Pool
+<https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2062959948720447919>  
+MKPool
+<https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2064034223460069416>  
+
+## Potential Alternative to BIP 54 (**DRAMA**)
+<https://x.com/JeremyRubin/status/2057948104960233561>  
+
+## Digital Panopticon News
+### UK Government Moves to Mandate Digital ID on Every Smartphone
+<https://slaynews.com/uk-government-moves-mandate-digital-id-every-smartphone/>  
+<https://x.com/signalapp/status/2064069692168519931>