BR053 - Start9, BIP-324, AssumeUTXO, COLDCARD, SATSLINK, Krux +MORE ft. Matt Hill, Odell & Rijndael
I’m joined by guests Matt Hill, Odell & Rijndael to go through the list.
Quote of the Day
Housekeeping
SATSLINK
We will be writing the lower level and some of the application, but this will be more intended as bring-your-own-app.
More info on specs at satslink.com/specs
Updated keyboard design released
Vulnerability Disclosures
Deep-TEMPEST: a deep learning method that recovers great quality images from unintentional electromagnetic emanations of HDMI. [Demoed]
Bitcoin
Software Releases & Project Updates
COLDCARD v5.2.0
Seed Vault: Store multiple ephemeral secrets into encrypted settings for simple recall and later use (AES-256-CTR encrypted with your master seed’s key).
Enable this functionality in Advanced/Tools -> Danger Zone -> Seed Vault -> Enable
Use stored seeds from Seed Vault with top-level Seed Vault menu choice.
Can capture and hold master secret from any ephemeral seed source, including: TRNG, Dice Rolls, SeedXOR, TAPSIGNER backups, BIP-85 derived values, BIP-39 passphrase wallets.
PSBTv2 support added! Enables new PSBT workflows and applications.
Lock Down Seed now works with every ephemeral secret (not just BIP39 passphrase)
BIP-39 Passphrase can now be added to any words-based ephemeral seed.
Add ability to back-up BIP39 Passphrase wallet (with passphrase encoded).
Return to main secret from ephemeral without need to reboot the device.
Bitcoin Core
BIP-324: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol Merged
Features opportunistic encryption, a mild bandwidth reduction, and the ability to negotiate upgrades before exchanging application messages
AssumeUTXO Merged
Uses serialized UTXO sets to substantially reduce the amount of time needed to bootstrap a usable Bitcoin node with acceptable changes in security
Start9
Announced two new services
Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image AI, similar to Midjourney
Use Stable Diffusion to create new worlds, fantastic characters, and unique imagery from short text descriptions. To ensure proper performance and functionality, Stable Diffusion is currently only available on the Start9 Server Pure.
FreeGPT is a chat AI, similar to ChatGPT
Use FreeGPT to engage in conversation with your own private AI chatbot.
Trident
Launched the Testnet Open Beta of Trident Vault
Specter Desktop v2.0.2
Feature: Enable import of a multisig wallet that uses a multi-descriptor
Feature: Implement automatic wallet import via Specter URI for MacOS
Bugfixes & chores
Blockstream Green iOS v4.0.13
Enable signing address with HW
URI schema and deep link support
BTC Pay Server v1.11.5
Reporting: Add payouts
Wallet: Delete custom labels
Dashboard: Show revenue data for keypad
Dashboard: Show the number of paid invoices in the last 7 days
Login: Add Remember Me button
Archive stores and apps
New permission: Can archive pull payment
Pull Payment: Show QR code for LNURL-Withdraw
Jam v0.1.6 v0.1.6 Salubrious Seeds
Wallet import. You can import an existing wallet.
Fee estimations and limits are now shown before sending collaborative transactions
Frozen balances are now shown at the jar level
Translations: Chinese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German
The Bitcoin Company
Integrated Auth47 Paynym accounts - you can login using bitcoin wallets with Auth47 support, like Samourai Wallet and Sparrow Wallet
Krux v23.09.0
Battery Indicator
New Mnemonic From Camera: Use camera as a source of entropy to quickly create a mnemonic.
Tiny Seed - Export, Print, Punch, Manually Load or Scan
Stackbit - Import and Export: Import and export another metal plate backup format
Enter Mnemonic as Word Numbers - Hex and Octal formats
Encryption and Storage: Store encrypted mnemonics on device’s internal flash memory or SD card. Export encrypted QRs.
Addresses: Verifying your wallet’s receive addresses. List, export and print receive and change addresses.
SD Card Hot plugging: SD cards can now be inserted and removed at any time
Transcript Tools for QR codes: Different visualization modes which make it easier to transcript QR codes.
Transaction Details: When signing a transaction, more information is presented.
New Tools: Check SD Card, Delete Mnemonic, Print Test QR, Create QR Code, Themes, Thermal Printing and CNC, New settings
Trezor v23.9.3
Simplified Bitcoin only firmware user interface
Independent coinjoin account discovery
Clear distinguishing between official and community languages
Hungarian and Italian community languages added
Simple Bitcoin Wallet
Samurai Dojo v1.21.0
$1 Fee Estimator has been included into Dojo. Fee estimates calculated by this tool are available on API (doc).
Peach
Project spotlight
Sustainable Bitcoin mining company MegaWatt added the TAPSIGNER as our 2-factor authentication method for their app [Demo]
After MegaWatt’s server authenticates your traditional username and the hash of your password, it returns a digest/nonce and the TAPSIGNER CVC/PIN code to the mobile app. The TAPSIGNER signs the digest and the signature is returned to the server. If valid, the user is authenticated.
Building a community members only card with SATSCHIP for all Julio Collectors. Each card has a Bitcoin private key
BIP39-XOR by Greg Tonoski
Encrypt or decrypt 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24 BIP39 codewords array (so-called “seed phrase”) using exclusive OR (XOR)/Vernam cipher (a.k.a. One Time Pad).
It’s distinct from alternative implmentations (e.g. SeedXOR) in that generated encryption keys maintain BIP-39 checksum integrity.
Basic use case: encryption or decryption of 12, 15, 18, 21 or 24 BIP39 codewords array (so-called “seed phrase”) using exclusive OR (XOR)/Vernam cipher (a.k.a. One Time Pad).
BIP-329 Python Library by Xavier from Labelbase - Python library which provides a set of tools for working with BIP-329 compliant label files.
BIP-329 Label Parsing
Label Writing & Encryption
Decryption
Robust Testing
Electrum PR Qualifies for NVK’s bounty announced in BR051 (support for backward-compatible BIP-329 import and BIP-329 export) if merged
ParmanodL: A Linux computer that runs the Parmanode Script Software - an Easy AF Bitcoin node installation package. [Announcement]
Simple setup:
Copy/Paste SINGLE command
Insert microSD into your Mac/Linux when prompted
Put the microSD into a PI and turn it on.
Double click icon to run (no finding IP addresses or typing SSH required).
Once accessing the Pi, type ‘menu’.
Features:
You only type 1 command to install.
No Balena etcher or other flashing software required
No pgp verification is required (it’s all from written text)
There is one download (official Raspberry Pi OS) which is hashed for the user…
No SSH commands are required - use the icon made on the desktop. Double-click to access the ParmanodL terminal.
ParmaZero: An air gapped Pi Zero #Bitcoin seed generating/signing computer [Announcement]
Runs as a Linux Desktop and has Electrum Wallet, and a mnemonic code generator.
No internet connection possible.
You can buy or build one yourself.
UTXOracle: Get the price of bitcoin without any exchange or third party
Everyone who runs this will get the same price independently
Open source, 100% on-chain data, no external libraries, no cookies. Works offline
Lightning + L2+
Software Releases & Project Updates
LND v0.17.0-beta
Simple Taproot Channels
“The idea is as follows: Construct a transaction (called kickoff transaction) that spends the original funding output (the 2/2 multisig that the channel is based off of) into a new Taproot funding output. Build a commitment transaction (the thing that allows unilateral close) off of the new taproot funding output. Both parties retain the kickoff and new commitment off-chain. Once both parties have this pair of transactions, the last commitment transaction that was built off of the original funding output is revoked, making that closure path impossible.” Keegan from Lightning Labs
Reduced block sync time for Neutrino, a Bitcoin light client optimized for mobile Lightning nodes. We’ve observed 400x faster sync time for the block filters.
Improved reliability and resource optimization for Watchtowers with queued updates for reduction in memory usage.
Mutiny Node v0.4.20 Blazing Fast Payments
Implements a Tony Giorgio’s Hub Scorer, this is looking like it will increase payment reliabilty dramatically.
Other highlights:
Experimental anchor channels support
Faster caching for bitcoin price
Better support for different VSS backends
Fixes fee rate being very low for channel closures
Mutiny Wallet
It’s now a lot easier to self-host Mutiny. The team put together a new repo with the core pieces you need, and docs for how to self-host Mutiny on a VPS.
Auto approve: set up Wallet Connections that auto-pay requests within a limit
Mutiny Gifts: Allows you to onboard a new user simply by showing them a QR code. Once they scan the QR code, it will load up Mutiny Wallet on the web, allowing them to redeem the Bitcoin. If they do not have a wallet already, it will create one in the background and open a lightning channel once redeemed.
More reliable payments
Self hosted VSS options
Better encryption password UX
Dockerfile integration
Reserve calculations on channel screen
Optimized price retrieval
Breez
The splice upgrade is now being deployed to all users, on Android and iOS, with splicing, trustless swaps, and a new fee model.
Alby v3.2.0 Tagging Bennu
It is now possible to do onchain swaps and send payments to onchain addresses using deezy.io directly from within the Extension.
The injection of the window.nostr and window.webln providers has been greatly improved and is now faster. This makes it easier and faster for web apps to detect if a provider is present. Alby can now handle parallel calls to those providers using an internal queue.
Alby now no longer checks the LNURL description hash in order to make the LNURL pay spec update possible.
eNuts v0.0.4-beta
Avoid foreground prompts for self-created token
Show in nostr msg that the sender is not verified
Enhance history entry of swap tx
Hide wallet amounts by pressing on logo
Minibits v0.1.2-beta.6
Now in Open beta testing on Google Play
Payment requests: You can send payment requests (lightning invoices that are shared with your contacts over NOSTR relays) to your contacts. Wallet of the receiver notifies and shows incoming payment requests and allows them to pay them immediately.
Use your public NOSTR address as an ecash payment identifier: You can replace automatically assigned and random wallet NOSTR profile (with @minibits.cash address) with your own external NOSTR profile. All ecash and lightning invoices sent to you as direct messages are then retrieved by the wallet and can be claimed or paid.
BitBanana v0.6.7
Added channel fee management
Reworked and improved channel details
Improved UI simplicity with customizable feature toggles accessible via the “Advanced Settings”
Receive addresses are now Taproot by default
Switch currencies on all amount views
Numerous subtle UX enhancements
Translation updates
Torq
Duration formatting
Column ordering
CLN payment status
Discord integration
Notifications via workflows (Telegram, Discord and Slack)
Uptime metrics and visualizations
Satcomma formatting on dashboard (and in notifications)
Summary on Payments, On Chain Transactions and Invoices pages (+ small updates)
Peers page paging (+ small updates)
Hitting dry run will always generate logs even when it’s disabled for the workflow
Configurable retention period for workflow logs
Cron trigger is now aware of the timezone
Prometheus database metric interval set to 10 minutes
10101 v1.3.0
First implementation of self custodial perpetual futures trading, secured with Bitcoin using DLCs on Lightning
Find match on an expired position
Allow exporting the seed phrase even if the Node is offline
Sync position with dlc channel state
Extend coordinator’s /api/version with commit hash and number
River
Launched LNURL Payments
Lightning Vouchers are live. River Lighting clients can now display QR codes to:
Enable withdrawals on Bitcoin ATMs
Host Bitcoin giveaways
Give their customers Bitcoin rewards
Distribute cashback to users
Gigsats v0.2.0
Markdown support when create/edit tasks and profile
Withdraw BTC with QR code
Display user activity status
Get notifid via email for task updates
lnprototest v0.0.5
Allowing the option to skip the creation of the wallet in bitcoind
Open channel helper ignores announcement signatures
Support the Drop of the –developer flag at runtime
Fedimint v0.1.0: TABConf hangover cure
Our first official Fedimint release 🎉 comprehensively tested at the TABConf hackday!
Release docs: Setting up a Federation + Lightning Gateway on Mutinynet
Project spotlight
Proxnut: A cashu proxy that asks for nuts to get right of passage
ProxNut is a Cashu proxy designed to protect or monetize web resources. Seamlessly integrate with a Cashu ecash wallet, allowing users to access protected resources using tokens
Features:
Ecash Wallet Integration: Seamlessly top up and spend tokens.
Resource Protection: Protect and monetize your web resources with ease.
Privacy by default: No accounts and no tracking. Leveraging ecash privacy.
Open-Source: Join our community and contribute to the project.
Cashu LNURL: Service that allows users to sign up for an ln address via nostr
Sats paid to this address are minted as cashu tokens of the users preferred mint and direct messaged to them via nostr.
Nostr
Software Releases & Project Updates
NDK v1.3.0
Massive user profile speedup with an aggressive LRU cache; apps using NDK Svelte Components will have the profile information available before the page is loaded (no flickering!)
Enables zap splits
Improved partial-EOSE logic
Ignores displayName and other bugfixes
rust-nostr v0.24.0
nostr: add support to NIP48
nostr: add support to NIP44
Add latency to RelayConnectionStats
fix rustdoc links in documentation
nostr: verify event id
nostr: add alloc feature
Damus v1.6-18
Add followed hashtags to your following list
Add “Do not show #nsfw tagged posts” setting
Hold tap to preview status URL
Finnish translations
Primal
0xchat v1.2.1-beta
Added voice & video call capabilities.
Introduced Light- Theme UI.
Expanded to 30+ language settings.
Messages now support reply and mentions features.
Included zaps records and notifications for zaps.
Expired Time Options added for creating secret chats.
Snort
Highlight search results
User status on profile pages (Music only [NIP-38])
Following mark on avatars, if you follow the pubkey you will see a green tick on their avatar
Pin encryption, encrypted private key storage for nsec login
Pubkey (readonly) logins hide buttons which cannot be used (reactions, reply, save profiles, dms etc)
Muted words feature (phase 1)
NIP-28 public chats
Amethyst
Coracle
Add ToS and Privacy Policy
Use an ephemeral key when reporting content and expire reports
Add local relay
Add global music player
Support bech32 entities in long form content
Add support for profile website
Reduce repeated notes in feeds
Add database import/export
Use a bloom filter for deletes
Remember reply drafts
Topic/keyword mutes
Add person mute list to settings
0.3.6
Add support for kind 1808
Nos.social
Nostur 1.7.0
Added separate notification tabs for reposts and new followers, mute toggles for each
Multi account improvements: quick follow on other accounts without switching account
Option to exclude selected accounts from publishing to specific relays
Many performance improvements, faster fetching and loading, and bug fixes
Gossip v0.8.0
Lightning Zaps have been implemented
Direct Messages have been implemented
Petname support (including in ContactList events) has been implemented
Relay pages and UX have been completely redone
Lume v1.2.6
Add relay manegament screen
Add explore screen
Add video and audio player (powered by https://github.com/vidstack/player)
Agora Social
nostrss v1.0.0
Implemented NIP-48 Proxy Tags
Spring - The Nostr Browser v0.2.0
Switch to TypeScript
Switch to Redux
Major UI change - separate screens for Content, Apps, Search and Tabs
About app screen, Pin app screen, Tab permissions screen, Add keys screen
Skeletons and reload links for content feeds
Magic menu extended with new features
Amber
Project spotlight
Exit.pub by Pablo: Leave Elon’s walled garden and take your goodies with you
“Download your twitter archive. If Elon agrees, you’ll get a zip file; uncompress it and just use exit.pub to import your data into nostr”
Features:
Original dates are used; whatever you posted in 2009 will show up as posted in nostr in 2009
Granular control of which tweets to import (threads, non-replies, replies)
V4V, you choose how much your shitposts are worth
It should preserve embedded images
Granular control of which relays you want to publish to
ZapThreads: A threaded comments component built on nostr.
Works on a variety of root events: note, nevent, naddr, URLs
Markdown support and nostr reference handling
Lightweight on clients and relays (~40kb minified/gzipped)
Extremely versatile and customizable
Available via NPM or script tag
$Prism: Split zap payments with multiple users [Announcement]
Type a $prism tag in any kind 1 event on any client to initiate a prism.
The prism will be created based on the first mention of the $prism tag.
Only users with a Lightning address will be included in the prism.
Type a listr after $prism to limit the prism members to that list (for example: $boost #followers)
Yana: Yet Another Nostr Application
The released app will be distributed as standalone packages for each OS and can be included in free Stores (F-Droid, Obtainium, etc)
Current features: Event Builders / WebSocket Subscriptions (NIP-01), Home Feed, Notifications Feed, Global Feed, Replies and mentions (NIP-10), Reactions (NIP-25), Reposts (NIP-18), Image/Url Previews, View Threads, Private Messages (NIP-04), User Profiles (edit/follow/unfollow - NIP-02), Bech Encoding support (NIP-19), Reporting (NIP-56), Block/Hide User, User/Note Tagging (NIP-08, NIP-10), Zaps (private, public, anon, non-zap) (NIP-57), Created_at Limits (NIP-22), Event Deletion (NIP-09), Nostr Address (NIP-05), Internationalization, Badges (NIP-58), Hashtag Following and Custom Hashtags, Polls (NIP-69), Relay Pages (NIP-11), Multiple Accounts
formstr: A usable alternative to google forms, that works on “notes and other stuff transmitted through relays(nostr)”. [Github]
nostrsync.live: Broadcast & Export Service that allows you to Download a Copy of your Data & when you use this service, all of your data will also be Broadcasted to Major Relays on the network.
oddbean.com: Hacker News/Reddit clone built on Nostr
nostr.cooking: A new #nostr client that allows you to share and exchange your recipes for zaps
Privacy Software
Software Releases & Project Updates
SimpleX Chat v5.3.0
encrypt local files in app storage (except videos)
Improved groups:
Delivery receipts (up to 20 members)
Send direct messages to members even after contact is deleted.
Faster and more stable
Simplified incognito mode.
New privacy settings: show last messages & save draft.
Faster app loading.
Reduced memory usage by 40%.
Obscura VPN VPN that offers Privacy-by-Design and can NEVER track your activity
Has no ability to tie your personal information to your browsing activity.
Works everywhere: even on restricted networks like your coworking space or local coffee shop.
Boosts
XX:XX:XX Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters:
[🏆 TOP BOOSTER] @grantgilliam (21,000 sats) “This was a great episode to sleep through, thank you”
@apemithrandir
(7,777 sats) “NERDS!!!”
(7,777 sats) “Sparrow + FROST, that sounds interesting.”
(7,777 sats) “The activation discussion was not useful as expected but from the sounds of it this change is useful enough to warrant another softfork.”
@vake (12,000 sats) “Bitcoin is boring”
@petar (3,333 sats) “I clipped this show at the part where you said nobody is going to clip this show. Great pod!”
@dubravko
(1,170 sats) “@nvk, I am 37 years old. I need pats on my back.”
(1,100 sats) “I rather enjoyed not listening to the end of this episode. I really needed that sleep.”
@conorchepenik (1,690 sats) “insightful rip thank you🫡”
@urza_cc (1,337 sats) “if we don’t know what we are doing, they don’t know it either :)”
@pextar “Amazing as always🫡”
@wartimepsycho (1,000 sats) “Good rip 🍻”
News & Noteworthy
Bitcoin
@ZeroSync have succeeded in creating an instant light client sync
“They’ve created a batched/recursive/incremental STARK proof for Bitcoin’s block headers: https://github.com/ZeroSync/header_chain”
A single 1.4KB proof (independent of # of headers) to verify all headers, PoW, etc 🤯”
MARA Pool mined an invalid block at 809478 on mainnet [0xB10C]
Invalid Bitcoin mainnet block at height 809478 mined by experimental, in-house MARAPool mining pool software on September 27, 2023.
ERROR: ConnectTip: ConnectBlock 000000000000000000006840568a01091022093a176d12a1e8e5e261e4f11853 failed, bad-txns-inputs-missingorspent, CheckTxInputs: inputs missing/spent
GPUtopia launched a marketplace to buy and sell GPU capacity for the open AI revolution. Every person can earn bitcoin payments by supplying unused graphic card processing power. [Alby Buzz]
Lightning
Zman proposed “Sidepools For Improving Payment Reliability At Scale” to the Lightning-Dev mailing list. The proposal would allow routing nodes to more efficiently manage liquidity.
Lightning Network Plus introduces the LN+ Liquidity Pool, a service to source liquidity for your node
Amboss launches Hydro, a feature to automatically source payment liquidity from the open market straight to your lightning node
You can now Buy Bitcoin directly into your Lightning wallet with Pocket
New top-up service enables sending bitcoin directly into your Breez or Phoenix wallet.
Diamond Hands announces new DH Swap and Strategic Partnership with Boltz [Press Release] to improve lightning liquidity management
“By entering into a strategic partnership with Boltz, we are now able to jointly offer and improve the service and expand the Boltz ecosystem in Japan and beyond.”
Competitions & Hackathons
All of the Projects from the ZBD x PlebLab TabConf Hackathon have been released!
The overall Winner was “UTXO Dealership” by Super Testnet and nicktee
The Winner of the 1st Lightning Category was “MutiMint” by Ben Carman
The Winner of the 2nd Lightning Category and the 2nd Peoples Favorite Categorywas “Satogram” by @BitcoinCoderBob and friends
The Winner of the LNURL Category was “Data Buffet” by @unclejim21, @btctechsupport, @bitcoinplebdev, & @CoachChuckFF
The Winner of the 1st Peoples Favorite Category was “LNPlay.live” by John @farscapian, @plebpoet &@NinjaGrannyHodl
Legends Of Lightning vol. 2 starts TOMORROW (5th Oct).
Prize pool of 2.5 BTC
Nostrasia Hackathon started YESTERDAY (2nd October)
Privacy
Coinjoins.org launches Bitcoin privacy wallet reviews
“From blockchain privacy, censorship resistance and anonymity scoring, we have selected 10 privacy essentials for Bitcoin wallets.”
“There are currently 3 popular coinjoin protocols (JoinMarket, WabiSabi and Whirlpool) with 5 privacy wallets that we have tested and evaluated based on the privacy essentials framework.”
Funding
Samara Asset Group Donates USD 10,000 in BTC to Bitcoin DADA to Support Bitcoin Education for Women in Africa [Press Release]
The Human Rights Foundation announced their latest round of 15 grants from their Bitcoin Development Fund
Furszy ($50,000) for his work on Bitcoin Core.
@summerofbitcoin ($50,000) to support their summer fellowship program.
Jarol Rodriguez ($50,000) for his work on Bitcoin Core.
Vinteum ($50,000) for their work on expanding open source Bitcoin work in Latin America and Brazil.
Gee Deer ($50,000) for his work on lightning native stablecoins and Bitcoin Core
The Kawaakibi Foundation ($50,000) (@Kawaakibi) to build a MENA Bitcoin Hub.
Justin Moeller ($50,000) for his work on Fedimint.
D++ ($25,000) for her international educational initiatives and work on FOSS projects.
Bitcoin Ekasi ($25,000) for their efforts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in South Africa.
Amiti ($25,000) for her work on Bitcoin mentorship, ADDRMAN, and Bitcoin Bytes.
BTC Sessions ($25,000) for international Bitcoin education.
La Librería de Satoshi ($25,000) to make technical education accessible to as many Spanish-speakers as possible.
Travel grants to TabConf ($10,000) a technical Bitcoin conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6-9.
Travel grants to SatsConf ($10,000) the largest Bitcoin conference in Brazil taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Travel grants to BTC++ ($10,000), a Bitcoin developer conference focused on Nix and software reproducibility
Business & Finance
F2Pool fully refunded the 19.8 BTC fee back to Paxos [F2 Pool]
Ripple Cancels Plan to Buy Fortress Trust [Coindesk]
BitGo and Swan Announce Plans for USA’s First Bitcoin-Only Trust Company [Announcement]
AnchorWatch Raises $3M to Solidify Bitcoin Custody and Insurance Platform [Press Release]
$3M funding round led by Ten31 with participation from Axiom BTC, Timechain, Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, UTXO Management (the asset management arm of Bitcoin Magazine and host of the Bitcoin Conference), and others.
The US Google Play Store has received a takedown request from Orange Group for The Orange Pill App. [Announcement]
“According to Orange, nobody can use the word “orange” but them.”
MSTR buys MOAR Bitcoin [Announcement]
“During the period between August 1, 2023 and September 24, 2023, MicroStrategy, together with its subsidiaries, acquired approximately 5,445 bitcoins for approximately $147.3 million in cash, at an average price of approximately $27,053 per bitcoin”
Hyperbitcoiniation
New nonprofit launched - Proof of Workforce
“Dedicated to long term, education-based Bitcoin adoption. Through adaptable adoption models, reliable educational resources, and community networking, Proof of Workforce aims to empower unions, workers, and organizations to discover ways in which Bitcoin can enhance their mission and well-being”
Shitcoin Clownery
CEO of Nchain Group, Christen Ager-Hanssen, departs - “convinced that Dr Craig Wright is NOT Satoshi” [Tweet]
“I have also reported that I have found compelling evidence that Dr Craig Wright has manipulated documents with the aim to deceive the court he is Satoshi.”
Government & Political
Cøbra Can’t Fight $700K Craig Wright Legal Fees as an Anon, UK Judge Rules Again [Coindesk]
“A London High Court Judge on Monday upheld a previous ruling that Bitcoin.org website operators, including the pseudonymous Cøbra, must give up their identity to avoid hefty legal fees levied by self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright.”
Guatemala’s Supreme Election Tribunal is using bitcoin timestamping to detect fraud attempts in the country’s presidential elections [Bitcoin Magazine]
EU Parliament Passes DAC8 Crypto Tax Reporting Rule [Forbes]
DAC8’s approval will facilitate the automatic exchange of crypto asset information among EU tax authorities
Reads
XX:XX:XX Here’s a list of our top recently published reads:
Building on Lightning: How Satimoto Is Beating Fiat with the Breez SDK by Roy Sheinfeld
How Hodl Hodl used BTCPay to onboard 20 merchants at a conference [BTC Pay Server]
Payment Splitting & Switching and its impact on Balance Discovery Attacks by Gijs van Dam
SeedSigner Independent Custody Guide by SeedSigner
Threading the web with Nostr [Habla.news]
Bitcoin Knowledge and Perceptions: Chapter II by Block
Hunting the Real Bitcoin Network Hashrate by Lopp
Our Data Driven Approach to Fixing Payment Reliability by Tony Giorgio
Self-hosting fixes this by Future Paul
Mega thread of 147 Bitcoin-only grassroots initiatives from 34 different countries around the world by Bringin
Other Resources
NSA operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report - FOSDEM 2014 [cnxlinux]
Episode submission ideas
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