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⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠⁠⁠⁠NVK Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠⁠⁠⁠Telegram⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)
Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-72

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I'm joined by guests Alex B, Ben Carman, and Craig Raw to go through the list.

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Links & Contacts

⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠⁠⁠⁠NVK Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠⁠⁠⁠Telegram⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-71

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I'm joined by guests Mike Schmidt & Rijndael to go through the list.

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Links & Contacts

⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠⁠⁠NVK Twitter⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠⁠⁠Telegram⁠⁠⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-70

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I'm joined by guests Andrew Poelstra, Rob Hamilton, and Rijndael to discuss OP_CAT.

Discussion Topics

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Links & Contacts

⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠⁠⁠NVK Twitter⁠⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠⁠⁠Telegram⁠⁠⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠⁠⁠Email⁠⁠⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-69

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I'm joined by guests Rob Hamilton, Ben Carman, Future Paul, and Jameson Lopp to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:01 Coinkite is looking for a Production Manager
00:01:39 BBQr reminder

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:04:53 Flaw in password manager RoboForm
00:08:24 Japanese exchange DMM hacked
00:11:34 GitHub warns of SAML auth bypass flaw
00:16:35 Whatsapp vulnerable to traffic analysis
00:17:21 Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems
00:18:12 Lopp's list of known physical bitcoin attacks

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:41:36 Casa wallet descriptors
00:51:47 BTCPay Server
00:51:52 Specter
00:53:07 Electrum
00:53:35 Nunchuk Desktop
00:58:24 Bitcoin Keeper
00:58:32 Green QT
00:58:42 Bisq2
00:58:45 Wasabi Wallet
1:01:24 Labelbase
1:03:39 ESP-miner

• Project Spotlight

1:03:45 Satsie Zines
1:06:28 NFC Push Tx
1:10:44 Meshtastic BitcoinCore Bridge
1:14:30 Ginger Wallet
1:15:11 cargo-checkct

Privacy & Other Related Bitcoin Projects

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:15:23 SimpleX

• Project Spotlight

1:15:50 Pushtx
1:16:15 lofextra

Lightning

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:17:27 Mutiny node

• Project Spotlight

1:17:27 Harbor

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:25:17 Primal iOS

• Project Spotlight

1:26:00 SIGit
1:27:14 git-remote-nostr
1:27:35 Corny Chat
1:28:11 Tidal Nostr Login

News & Noteworthy

• Business & Finance

1:32:22 HodlHodl blocks access to Lend

• Funding

1:33:16 Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund Launched
1:33:28 Unchained and the University of Austin launch first long-term endowment fund held in bitcoin
1:33:35 Human Rights Foundation bounties
1:33:40 Spiral supports newest grantee Sean Giligan in building ValidiTEE
1:33:45 Bitcoin Design Foundation grants support to two more contributors

• Mining

1:34:05 Concept for solderless ASIC chip modules

Links & Contacts

⁠⁠Website⁠⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠⁠NVK Twitter⁠⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠⁠Telegram⁠⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠⁠Email⁠⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-68

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I'm joined by guests Fiatjaf, Miljan, & Odell to go through the list.

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:02:34 Ebury
00:03:55 Zero-day in D-Link router
00:05:07 LLMjacking
00:10:43 Bluetooth as a border surveillance technology
00:31:38 Google patches Chrome vulnerability

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:33:28 Sparrow Wallet
00:35:11 electrs
00:35:24 Specter Desktop
00:38:54 BlueWallet
00:39:12 Blockstream
00:39:52 Robosats
00:39:59 BoltzExchange
00:40:13 Wasabi Wallet
00:44:32 Stack Wallet
00:44:40 GroupHug

• Project Spotlight

00:47:13 Penlock
00:47:33 utreexod
00:47:51 Meshtastic BitcoinCore Bridge
00:48:39 silentpayments.xyz
00:49:02 blindbitd
00:49:10 Silentium
00:51:50 BlueWallet Silent Payments
00:51:53 BitEscrow Developer Playground
00:51:58 BitVMX

Privacy & Other Related Bitcoin Projects

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:55:07 Unleashed.Chat
00:58:28 SimpleX

• Project Spotlight

00:58:52 OpenXrypt

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:01:58 Mutiny
1:02:02 LDK
1:02:11 scaling-lightning
1:02:16 Phoenixd
1:02:20 Breez SDK
1:02:24 minibits-wallet
1:02:44 Bull Bitcoin bullbitcoin-mobile
1:04:01 nutstash-wallet
1:04:02 Fedimint
1:04:06 Aqua Wallet
1:04:11 LNp2p Bot

• Project Spotlight

1:04:18 Cashu.Me
1:04:34 Alby releases AdBlockPlus and uBlock
1:07:36 Prism introduces Boardwalk Cash

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:20:45 Primal android-app

Boosts

1:46:45 Shoutout to top boosters: @garykrause_, @vake, @dubravko, @pippellia, @marinaspin, & @righthandson

Tech Tip of the Day

1:48:28 How to turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud

Links & Contacts

⁠Website⁠: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
⁠Substack⁠: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
⁠Twitter⁠: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
⁠NVK Twitter⁠: https://twitter.com/nvk
⁠Telegram⁠: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
⁠Email⁠: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-67

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I'm joined by guests Steve Lee, Future Paul, Odell, & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:49 Coinkite needs a technical writer

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:32:32 SATAn
00:35:45 Mullvad
00:37:28 Federal officials warn of CISA exploitation
00:43:23 Coordinated attacks on Docker Hub via malicious repositories
00:44:11 Cuckoo
1:37:15 Critics fear Signal may be compromised after Katherine Maher appointment

Quick fire discussion topics

00:16:16 Ossification
00:18:39 Dev funding

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:48:24 Sparrow Wallet
00:50:04 COLDCARD
00:52:16 Secp256k1
00:57:51 Umbrel
00:58:10 Blockstream Green
00:58:23 BlueWallet
00:58:34 Nunchuk
1:03:58 Theya Inc. Bitcoin wallet
1:06:46 10101
1:06:52 BTCmap-android
1:07:10 Braiins Toolbox

Project Spotlight

1:07:18 BBQr-rust
1:08:40 Awning
1:09:47 GroupHug
1:09:54 Hodlboard

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:10:25 Unleashed.Chat

Project Spotlight

1:10:40 Emessbee

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:20:24 LND
1:20:47 Mutiny Node
1:33:39 Breez SDK
1:33:46 Blockstream Green iOS
1:34:29 BoltzExchange boltz-backend
1:35:35 SwissBitcoinPay
1:35:39 LNp2p Bot
1:35:45 Geyser

Project Spotlight

1:36:10 clArk
1:36:28 Helm Wallet

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:40:16 Primal
1:42:50 nos2x
1:43:32 Mostro

Project Spotlight

1:43:46 Iris Docs
1:43:53 ROASTr
1:44:09 Magstr
1:44:28 NostrDVM
1:44:49 NosDrive

Boosts

1:53:22 Shoutout to top boosters: @apemithrandir, @loke, @jcdenton, @vake, @2ndbreakfast, @bendthefed & @tmakerman

Tech Tip of the Day

1:54:58 ASCIImoji

News & Noteworthy

• Lightning

1:55:38 Ocean launches Lightning payouts

• Nostr

1:56:40 NIP-104
2:00:50 LightningTipBot and ln.tips are retiring

• Funding

2:06:27 OpenSats receives an additional donation of $21M
2:09:21 OpenSats grants long-term support for Shashwat Vangani
2:09:29 Spiral grant renewals

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Substack: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-66

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I'm joined by guests Rob Hamilton, Ben Carman, & Rijndael to go through the list.

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Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Substack: https://substack.bitcoin.review/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-65

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I'm joined by guests Alex B, Harry Sudock, Future Paul, and Craig Raw to go through the list.

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:01:02 xz utils backdoor
00:17:35 LoLRa project
00:42:13 Nunchuk
00:25:53 BitVM Bridges Considered Unsafe
00:43:06 Breez under DDoS attack

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:45:53 Bitcoin Core
00:46:27 Coldcard Q
00:52:39 HWI
00:55:59 BDK
00:56:17 Nunchuk-desktop
00:56:35 Nunchuk-android
00:56:49 Liana
00:57:21 Krux
00:59:29 Blockstream Green
00:59:44 Blue Wallet
00:59:56 Brainbow
01:00:07 Bitcoin Keeper
01:00:18 Bisq
01:00:21 Citadel
01:00:25 Labelbase

Side Discussion

1:02:27 SimpleX versus nostr
1:06:20 Mutiny integration with nostr
1:14:15 Social contracts and Duty of care
1:16:35 Importance of money and economic responsibility
1:17:04 Fair versus unfair distribution

• Software Releases & Project Updates (Cont.)

1:20:43 Boltz-web-app
1:20:53 AgoraDesk

Project Spotlight

1:21:02 Wizard Sardines' Antoine Poinsot
1:22:34 Cypher.Space
1:22:42 Spend-sats

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:22:46 Unleashed.chat

Project Spotlight

1:23:05 Hushline

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:23:34 CLN
1:23:47 Phoenixd
1:23:52 Breez SDK
1:23:54 Mutiny Node
1:35:49 Fedimint
1:36:38 Zeus

Project Spotlight

1:37:06 LNCast

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:38:51 NDK
1:39:21 Primal
1:39:39 Amethyst
1:41:20 Mostro

Project Spotlight

1:41:29 NostrSync
1:41:37 Nostr Signer
1:41:41 X to Nostr

Side Discussion

1:42:24 Infighting and toxicity
1:52:09 Bitcoin politics
1:54:23 Incentives and game theory

Boosts

1:58:10 Shoutout to top boosters: @qxotk, @dubravko, @conorchepenik, @benthefed, @TheWildHustle, @plebhodl, @zdoxed, @undefined & @monk_cactus

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

2:05:54 Bitcoin script and BitVM development
2:05:55 HRF launches Bitcoin integration webinar
2:06:00 Umbrel has approved and integrated
2:06:07 Google starts indexing Bitcoin data

• Lightning

2:06:25 Coinbase Selects Lightspark for Lightning
2:06:29 Amboss launches

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-64

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I'm joined by guests Rob Hamilton, Ben Carman, & Pablo to go through the list.

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:01:27 GoFetch
00:04:38 Vulnerability discovered in ViaBTC's SPV mining code
00:06:07 SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:07:31 Electrs
00:07:37 BDK
00:07:48 UmbrelOS
00:08:03 Nunchuk-android
00:08:09 Agora Desktop
00:08:14 RoboSats
00:08:19 Rust Payjoin
00:08:26 ESP Miner
00:09:22 Labelbase
00:10:15 Brainbow
00:10:28 BTC Pay Server
00:11:10 Blockstream Jade firmware
00:11:26 Blockstream Green
00:11:36 Trezor
00:11:56 Ledger app-bitcoin-new
00:13:32 Casa Inheritance
00:21:28 Unchained iOS app
00:23:58 The Bitcoin Company remittance API

• Project Spotlight

00:24:19 Teleport transactions
00:24:40 dead-man-switch
00:24:59 BitCan
00:26:41 Bitcoin-qr
00:27:40 Speed Wallet
00:27:52 MicroBolt

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:30:13 Unleashed.chat
00:32:01 SimpleX

• Project Spotlight

00:32:43 Mynymbox

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:32:55 Mutiny Node
00:41:30 Acinq releases Phoenixd
00:43:04 Alby lightning-browser-extension
00:46:27 Nutshell
00:46:34 10101

• Project Spotlight

00:46:41 Multinuteral payments
00:48:20 NLightning
00:48:47 Hedgehog by Super Testnet
00:49:19 Boltz client
00:49:25 sats4ai
00:50:23 PayPerQ
00:51:33 L2.watch

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:56:12 NDK
00:57:48 Highlighter
1:01:08 primal-web-app
1:01:20 rust-nostr
1:01:24 Nos.social
1:01:28 Coracle
1:01:31 0xChat

• Project Spotlight

1:03:26 Citrine

Boosts

1:04:52 Shoutout to top boosters: @jcdenton, @zdoxed, @geneeverett & @satori.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

1:07:55 BIP324 proxy for light clients

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

1:08:03 BitGo introduces replace by fee

• Lightning

1:10:23 Musqet

• Nostr

1:10:30 Nostr.org
1:10:37 Damus Purple

• Business & Finance

1:10:41 MicroStrategy Surpasses 1% of Total Bitcoin Supply

• Funding

1:11:15 HRF grants $500'000 to 14 projects worldwide
1:11:18 OpenSats announces newest grantee Bruno Garcia

• Mining

1:11:28 Stratum
1:11:40 Marathon Digital Holdings Releases Industry-Leading Bitcoin Mining Firmware and Control Board

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-63

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I'm joined by guests Future Paul, Craig Raw, & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:03:42 Signal usernames launched
00:04:12 COLDCARD Q is now shipping

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:05:16 "AJ Towns censoring on Delving Bitcoin to cover Bitcoin Core backdoors?
00:13:43 LNbits Demo Server to Disable Cashu Extension

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:21:09 Sparrow Wallet
00:36:28 ColdCard Q
00:50:57 BDK
00:51:22 Krux
00:58:11 Electrum
00:58:24 Blue Wallet
00:59:30 Bitcoin Keeper
00:59:34 Joinmarket Clientserver
01:00:36 Boltz Web App
01:01:11 Jam
01:01:21 Bisq
01:07:37 Nunchuk
01:07:44 Agora Desktop
01:07:47 Bitcoin Tribe
01:07:49 Nix-Bitcoin
01:07:53 10101
01:08:02 ESP Miner
01:08:22 Orange Clock
01:08:29 Citadel
01:08:32 Wasabi Wallet
01:08:58 Blockstream Green QT
01:09:13 Trezor

• Project Spotlight

01:11:03 Hack0
01:12:08 Bitcoin Fees
01:12:15 Workit
01:12:37 Branta

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:19:35 Unleashed.chat
01:20:14 Simplex Chat

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:20:36 Phoenix
01:21:05 Zeus
01:21:19 CLN
01:21:26 Eclair
01:22:01 Fedimint
01:22:07 eNuts
01:22:26 Mutiny Wallet
01:33:09 Mutiny Node
01:33:28 lnbits
01:33:31 Fountain
01:33:37 BitBanana
01:33:41 Validated Lightning Signer
01:35:47 LNp2p Bot
01:35:50 Alby js-sdk
01:35:59 Polar
01:36:02 Aqua Wallet

• Project Spotlight

01:36:06 Slice
01:36:16 sats.mobi
01:36:22 cln-lightning-liquidity
01:36:37 CYPHER

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:36:47 Primal
01:37:49 Coracle
01:38:02 Amethyst
01:38:14 Nostr Nests
01:38:21 Nos.social
01:38:25 Mostro
01:38:28 Plebeian Market

• Project Spotlight

01:39:20 Chesstr
01:39:28 cascdr
01:39:37 Wikifreedia
01:41:37 Satcom
01:41:48 Noogle

Boosts

01:42:33 Shoutout to top boosters: @mix, @qxotk, @dubravko, @bendthefed, @tym, @plebhodl & @piez.

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-62

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I'm joined by guests Calle, Pablo & Ben Carman to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:56 New BitcoinTreasuries distribution chart
00:02:07 Unleashed.chat
00:05:15 BBQr.org/PSBT adding PSBT maker
00:08:28 eNuts

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:17:51 Linux being secure is a common misconception
00:19:50 Public disclosure of a block stalling bug in Bitcoin Core affecting LN

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:20:35 COLDCARD Q
00:22:40 Libwally-core
00:22:54 Nunchuk Android
00:23:19 BlueWallet
00:25:18 Agoradesk
00:25:28 Zaprite
00:25:42 Blockstream Green
00:26:17 BTC Map Android
00:26:22 Umbrel OS

• Project Spotlight

00:27:55 BitScript
00:28:48 Avalon Nano 3
00:28:58 Flash

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:31:13 SimpleX Chat

Project Spotlight

00:34:51 Pear Runtime

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:36:57 Lightning Protocol Dual Funding
00:37:03 lnbits
00:37:25 Nutshell
00:52:46 Mutiny Node
00:53:17 Mutiny StartOS
00:53:58 Torq
00:54:03 Bitcoin Tribe
00:54:10 GetAlby SDK
00:54:15 10101
00:54:31 lightning-terminal
00:54:37 Clams Remote
00:54:43 Stacker News

• Project Spotlight

00:55:08 npub.cash
00:58:46 Banco
00:58:54 PlebDashboard
00:58:59 Compliance

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:59:34 NDK v2.5
01:00:51 Primal
01:02:01 Coracle
01:06:58 Amethyst
01:07:37 rust-nostr
01:08:41 Nostur
01:09:35 Nostrudel
01:12:40 0xchat
01:14:03 Mostro
01:14:10 plebeian-market
01:14:16 nostr-zap

• Project Spotlight

01:14:22 Nsec.app
01:20:12 Tunestr
01:20:17 resolvr
01:20:27 Whynostr
01:23:47 Satcom

Boosts

01:24:51 Shoutout to top boosters: 🏆 @apemithrandir, @juansgalt, @qxotk, @vake, @user30394172 & @mix

News & Noteworthy

• Privacy

01:28:28 Apple PWA ban

• Development

01:30:39 Matt Corallo human readable names BIP
01:32:38 Bitcoin Dev Mailing List moves to Google Groups

• Lightning & L2(+)

01:33:08 Exodus is shutting down operations in the US

• Events

01:34:17 Summer of Bitcoin 2024
01:34:20 Bitcoin Film Fest and Halvening celebration I'm joined by guests Calle, Pablo & Ben Carman

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-61

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I'm joined by guests Rob Hamilton, Craig Raw, Pablo & Odell to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:39 Coinkite is hiring a web designer
00:04:05 Orange and Purple Piling in CR
00:11:08 Faketoshi Trial

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:16:22 Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits
00:25:15 Breaking Bitlocker
00:27:31 Interesting ORCHESTRA type attack against noobs
00:46:42 Mastodon critical vulnerability

Bitcoin

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:47:31 Net enable v2transport
00:48:05 Sparrow Wallet
00:53:16 HWI
00:53:48 libwally-core
00:54:02 BDK
00:54:54 BlueWallet
00:55:15 Nunchuk Android
00:55:32 Parmanode
00:55:46 Timechain Calendar
00:56:09 Clark Moody Dashboard
00:57:26 Geyser

Project Spotlight

00:57:34 Tor Connect
00:59:47 BitEscrow
00:59:51 Dosh
01:01:14 Citrea

Privacy Software

Software Releases & Project Updates

01:03:43 Unleashed.Chat
01:05:17 Simplex Chat

Lightning & L2(+)

Software Releases & Project Updates

01:06:34 Zeus
01:06:44 mutiny-node
01:06:54 mutiny-startos
01:07:04 Breez SDK Core
01:07:11 Boltz Exchange
01:07:16 10101
01:07:46 Loop
01:08:00 Torq
01:08:03 lnp2pBot
01:08:07 AQUA Wallet

Project Spotlight

01:19:02 awesome-cashu
01:19:11 Superposition
01:19:24 Note Duel
01:19:29 nutband

Nostr

Software Releases & Project Updates

01:20:35 Damus
01:20:38 Primal
01:20:47 civkit-node
01:20:51 Snort
01:20:55 Amethyst
01:20:59 nos.social
01:21:03 Lume
01:21:07 YakiHonne
01:21:13 Formstr
01:21:22 Makeprisms
01:21:25 Plebeian Market
01:22:05 NDK
01:22:54 Shipyard DVM

Project Spotlight

01:24:16 StartOS

Boosts

01:25:18 Shoutout to top boosters: @jcdenton, @qxotk, @user611667864309866, @piez, @zdoxed, @plebhodl, @user30394172

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-60

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I'm joined by guests Harry Sudock, Pablo, & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:05:20 EU official reseller
00:12:20 No Bullshit Bitcoin
00:12:39 SeedXOR
00:36:14 Quantumcats.xyz

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:46:19 Trezor announces security breach
00:47:54 Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning
00:49:09 Scam Bitcoin Wallets Are Still Reigning Free on Apple's App Store
00:50:36 GitLab warns of critical zero-click account hijacking vulnerability
00:51:51 OP_CAT is the vulnerability

Bitcoin

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:06:47 Coldcard Edge Firmware
1:11:55 Sparrow
1:13:26 Electrum
1:13:53 Robosats
1:14:51 BlueWallet
1:15:18 Agora Desk
1:15:28 ESP-miner
1:18:55 Nunchuk Desktop
1:19:06 BitcoinTreasuries.net
1:22:52 Parmanode
1:23:01 Trezor

Project Spotlight

1:23:30 GroupHug Server
1:23:40 Semaphore

Nostr

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:24:11 nsecBunker
1:27:35 nos.social
1:27:37 rust-nostr
1:27:40 nostr-wallet-connect
1:27:42 Mostro
1:27:44 nostream
1:28:13 Amethyst
1:28:20 Coracle

Project Spotlight

1:29:39 Nostr NFC Art Cards
1:29:54 Flash
1:30:14 Nostr image host
1:30:29 Hermes
1:30:37 stargazr
1:30:43 Dmpling
1:30:49 Flockstr

Privacy Software

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:35:07 Unleashed.chat
1:36:05 SimpleX Chat

Lightning & L2(+)

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:36:36 Phoenix
1:37:03 rust-lightning
1:37:08 Mutiny Node
1:39:30 Alby
1:40:14 Wallet of Satoshi
1:40:19 Clams Remote
1:40:26 Fountain Android
1:40:30 Mercury Layer
1:43:16 Plasma Core Lightning Wallet
1:43:19 Bitcoin Connect
1:43:22 Blockstream Green
1:43:24 Swiss Bitcoin Pay
1:43:27 Mash
1:43:30 Stackernews
1:43:53 Peerswap

Project Spotlight

1:44:03 Aqua Wallet
1:44:05 Fiatlink
1:44:06 OPAGO Lightning POS Terminal
1:44:10 Nutband
1:44:35 Autonode
1:44:48 BitcoinVoucherBot
1:44:55 Satsforads
1:44:58 Lightning Weather App
1:45:57 Marina Wallet

Boosts

1:46:01 Shoutout to top boosters: @garykrause_, @apemithrandir, @qxotk, @vake, @wartime.

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-59

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, Pablo, & Odell to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:10:34 Unleashed.chat
00:13:11 OpenSats
00:13:30 Faaans

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:22:10 Nostr DDoS Attack
00:28:40 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones
00:42:50 A critical security vulnerability has been found in LNbank

Bitcoin

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:45:59 Electrs
00:50:55 Ocean block templates
00:51:29 libsecp256k1
00:54:13 Wasabi Wallet
00:54:24 Nunchuk
00:54:44 Electrum
00:55:35 BlueWallet
00:55:48 Smart Vaults
00:59:30 Peach
00:59:41 Hodl Hodl
00:59:45 SatoshiGPT
00:59:54 Blockstream Green iOS
1:00:20 Trezor

Project Spotlight

1:01:40 The Bitcoiner Test
1:05:06 Bitcoiner Freelance
1:05:13 TopBuilder
1:07:07 Rhino Bitcoin App
1:07:17 Orange Clock
1:07:48 Economically Unspendable Bitcoin UTXO Calculator
1:20:46 Loan shark

Lightning & L2(+)

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:21:46 Alby
1:27:03 Fountain
1:27:45 Mutiny Node
1:32:14 boltz-web-app
1:32:17 LNDg
1:32:22 Amboss
1:32:28 Swiss Bitcoin Pay app
1:32:33 lnp2pBot
1:32:40 Mercury Wallet
1:32:42 Cashu Nutshell

Project Spotlight

1:32:57 Bitcoin Connect
1:32:59 Sulu

Nostr

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:33:10 NDK
1:35:28 rust-nostr
1:35:30 nostr-wallet-connect
1:35:33 Primal
1:37:06 Amethyst
1:37:10 Mostro
1:37:11 yana

Project Spotlight

1:37:46 Flare
1:37:49 delphi.market
1:38:14 Arc Map (mapstr)

Privacy Software

Software Releases & Project Updates

1:38:31 SimpleX Chat

Project Spotlight

1:41:37 Meshtastic

Boosts

2:00:20 Shoutout to top boosters: @winthrop, @vake, @dubravko, @piez, @agichoote, @tym.

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-58

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I'm joined by guests Mike Schmidt & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:06:34 OpenSats announce 10 new grants

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:13:40 Ledger vulnerabilities
00:27:26 Keystone License has been changed
00:29:22 A critical vulnerability has been found in LNBank
00:31:01 In March 2021 the FBI raided USPV, broke open every single box in the vault
00:35:04 Shakepay Customer Information Leaked
00:36:23 Controversial Ocean upgrade fixes long-standing vulnerability exploited by modern spammers

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:11:37 Bitcoin Core
1:19:07 COLDCARD Mk4
1:22:38 Frostsnap prototypes first look
1:29:32 BTC Pay Server
1:29:47 Liana
1:30:23 Keeper
1:30:29 rust-payjoin
1:31:18 Mempool.space
1:31:30 NerdMiner
1:31:42 AgoraDesk
1:32:05 Blockstream Green
1:32:18 Samurai Dojo
1:32:26 Ronin Dojo
1:32:59 RoninUI

• Project Spotlight

1:33:40 The #Hashtub
1:34:45 Coinselect

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:35:00 lnd
1:35:04 lnbits
1:35:08 Zeus
1:35:13 Phoenix Android
1:35:26 ldk-node
1:35:35 lightning-terminal
1:35:39 Mutiny Wallet
1:37:36 Breez SDK Core
1:37:41 taproot-assets
1:37:48 10101
1:41:20 Ride The Lightning
1:41:25 Stacker News
1:41:32 Alby
1:41:42 BitBanana
1:41:45 Thunderhub
1:42:08 River Link
1:44:02 Cashu
1:44:13 eNuts
1:44:27 Minibits

• Project Spotlight

1:45:07 PlebDevs Course II
1:45:14 ShockWallet
1:45:16 Ark Developer Hub
1:45:21 Elements Academy

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:46:30 NDK
1:46:46 Unleashed.chat
1:51:07 Primal
1:51:58 Amethyst
1:52:08 Snort
1:52:11 Coracle
1:52:13 Nos.social
1:52:15 Yana
1:52:18 Nostree
1:52:21 Civkit
1:52:44 Plebeian Market
1:52:52 Mostro
1:52:57 nostr-webhost
1:53:01 nostr-universe
1:53:04 0xchat

• Project Spotlight

1:53:09 Nostr Tech Weekly

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:54:48 SimpleX Chat

Boosts

1:55:01 Shoutout to top boosters: @vake, @qxotk, @dubravko, @agichoote, @cantillionaire.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

1:56:38 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-57

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I'm joined by guests ⁠Roy⁠, ⁠BentheCarman⁠ & ⁠Rijndael⁠ to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:51 OpenSats long-Term Support For Will Clark

00:01:57 Unleashed.chat

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:03:28 Ledger user lost BTC after upgrade

00:08:20 Attacker managed to steal almost 56 BTC while paying 83.7 BTC fee

00:15:50 New BLUFFS attack lets attackers hijack Bluetooth connections

00:18:15 Wallet of Satoshi shuts down to US users

00:18:16 Nodeless.io has been shut down

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:36:35 Sparrow

00:37:04 Florestra

00:38:26 Nunchuk

00:39:08 Libwally Core

00:39:40 Citadel

00:39:46 Blockstream Green iOS

00:39:58 Blockstream Green Android

00:40:23 HODL HODL

00:40:33 ESP-Miner

00:40:50 Peach

• Project Spotlight

00:41:03 Apollo II home miner

00:42:27 BBQr

00:55:18 OCEAN

01:02:56 bitcoinminiguides.com

01:04:52 libreriadesatoshi.com

01:05:05 Truevote

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:05:22 Breez

01:20:30 Phoenix

01:10:26 Mutiny Wallet

1:19:04 Mutiny Node

01:20:43 Alby

01:20:55 alby-js-sdk

01:21:03 Blixt Android

1:25:26 BitBanana

1:25:35 10101

1:28:08 CLN

1:28:20 lnbits

1:28:29 lnd

1:28:40 Cashu Nutshell

1:31:06 eNuts

1:31:27 Stacker News

• Project Spotlight

1:31:32 acceptln.com

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:31:57 NDK

1:34:27 rust-nostr

1:34:32 Damus

1:34:36 Amethyst

1:34:43 YakiHonne

1:34:48 Nosotros

1:34:52 Coracle

1:34:55 Yana

1:35:03 Nostree.me

1:35:11 Nos.social

1:35:19 Spring

1:35:27 0xchat

• Project Spotlight

1:35:41 Kind0.io

1:35:49 dtan.xyz

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:36:30 Simplex Chat

• Project Spotlight

1:38:40 CBDC Tracker

1:38:44 GPT4All

Boosts

1:40:43 Shoutout to top boosters: @apemithrandir, @vake, @dubravko.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

1:41:22 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

News & Noteworthy

• Lightning

1:52:00 Lightning Address in a Bolt 12 world

1:52:04 ZBD and Beamable Launch a Joint Starter Kit

• Privacy

1:52:15 Six OFAC-sanctioned transactions missing

• Funding

1:52:22 Bitcoin Design Foundation

1:58:01 Spiral

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-56

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, Odell & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:03:36 Subscribe now to have early access to Bitcoin Firday Deals
00:03:59 SATSLINK official announcement video from nostrasia

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:10:42 A phishing email is being sent out impersonating Blockstream
00:12:19 A Fake Ledger Live app in Microsoft Store stole $768,000 in crypto
00:12:52 The Apple AppStore for iOS has published a range of fraudulent bitcoin wallet apps
00:17:01 Secure boot bypass on ESP32 achieved by swapping the CS line, despite the absence of fault injection
00:19:33 Every single Raspberry Pi 5 is given a unique identification number
00:25:35 25 BTC hacked from self-hosted password manager

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:55:29 COLDCARD Edge
00:34:35 Sparrow
00:58:01 Liana
00:58:49 Electrs
1:01:07 Blockstream Green
1:01:16 Nodeyez
1:01:32 Padawan Wallet

• Project Spotlight

1:08:24 Bitescrow
1:09:33 Bitcoindev.org
1:09:40 bitcoin-scriptexec
1:11:14 Seedle39
1:11:40 Opcode Explained
1:12:06 Cubit
1:15:14 BitChimney Space Heater

Lightning

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:15:37 Blixt
1:15:52 Zeus
1:16:04 Phoenix
1:16:14 Mutiny Node
1:16:29 LN Wallet APIs/LSPs
1:23:01 Torq
1:23:05 BitBanana
1:23:09 10101
1:23:13 Minibits
1:23:20 rust-lightning
1:23:49 Wallby
1:23:58 Alby + Zaprite

• Project Spotlight

1:24:19 LNESIM
1:24:25 cipherchat.app
1:24:48 Lifpay Bitcoin Lightning wallet
1:24:53 getbit.money
1:25:02 Plasma

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:25:45 rust-nostr
1:25:59 Damus
1:26:04 Primal
1:26:20 Amethyst
1:26:28 Nos.social
1:26:31 Highlighter
1:26:42 Mostro
1:26:48 Current iOS
1:27:02 0xchat
1:27:06 Lume

• Project Spotlight

1:27:14 Nostr Assets
1:33:03 Flockstr
1:33:43 Nostter
1:33:50 Nostr
1:34:34 nostrudel

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:34:39 StartOS
1:35:54 Unleashed Chat

Boosts

1:42:13 Shoutout to top boosters: @hgw39, @apemithrandir, @vake, @mrmr, @dubravko, @heidisov, @sovereignindividual

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

1:43:27 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

News & Noteworthy

01:49:30 Quickfire rundown of Bitcoin news

Reads & Resources

1:52:22 Top recently published reads and useful resources

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-55

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I'm joined by guests Ben Carman, Calle, & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:39 OpenSats
00:03:07 Bitcoin.Review Substack
00:03:31 SATSLINK
00:05:37 Bitcoin Black Friday

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:06:36 The Lightning Network remains vulnerable to replacement cycling attacks.

Bitcoin

Software Releases & Project Updates:

00:10:00 Bitcoin Core
00:10:14 P2P
00:10:26 Fees
00:10:31 RPC
00:11:19 Robosats
00:14:37 Samurai
00:15:45 BTCPay Server
00:16:20 Peach
00:16:35 Simple Bitcoin Wallet
00:17:18 Trezor
00:17:50 Wasabi
00:19:01 Citadel
00:19:19 BISQ
00:19:29 BlueWallet
00:20:38 Nodeyez
00:20:50 Samurai Sentinal
00:21:32 RoninDojo
00:21:54 Botlz
00:22:04 Smart Vaults
00:28:01 Mutiny
00:28:43 Orange Pill App
00:28:52 Oshi

Project Spotlight:

00:30:02 PlebBook
00:30:21 Theya
00:30:44 Tapleaf circuits
00:32:33 esp-miner
00:33:08 chatbtc
00:37:16 Bitcoin TLDR
00:37:42 BitVM Online

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

00:38:13 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

Lightning & L2(+)

Software Releases & Project Updates:

00:44:29 LDK
00:47:29 lnbits
00:49:30 Alby
00:52:06 Breez SDK
00:52:16 Cashu
00:57:53 Zeus
00:59:05 10101
1:00:17 Fountain
1:00:27 mutiny-node
1:03:51 Taproot Assets
1:08:16 lightning-terminal
1:08:23 Torq
1:08:30 Ride The Lightning
1:09:13 Voltage Cloud
1:10:05 Stacker News
1:10:16 Nayuta Wallet
1:10:23 Alby JS SDK
1:10:25 scaling-lightning
1:10:34 THNDR
1:11:30 Polar

Project Spotlight:

1:11:38 Triible
1:11:49 Bijli
1:11:56 Plasma

Nostr

Software Releases & Project Updates:

1:12:34 NIP-41
1:23:07 Snort
1:23:10 Coracle
1:23:13 Amethyst
1:23:14 Lume
1:23:15 Amber
1:23:15 Gossip
1:23:17 0xchat
1:23:19 Listr
1:23:24 Spring

Project Spotlight:

1:23:34 PlebAI
1:23:37 Nostr Playground
1:23:45 memestr
1:23:56 shopstr
1:24:01 Hostr
1:24:05 Shipyard
1:24:07 NoStress Comments Plugin

Privacy Software

Software Releases & Project Updates:

1:24:43 Keet

Boosts

1:25:08 Shoutout to top boosters: @vake, @apemithrandir, @flotsamjetsam, @ideaslut, @dubravko, @michaelmatulef.

News & Noteworthy

Competitions, accelerators and hackathons:

1:27:55 Outlier Ventures' Bitcoin Base Camp accelerator is open for applications

Hyperbitcoinization:

1:29:51 Choice IRA Sats Mode Launched
1:29:55 President of Madeira announces creation of Bitcoin business hub

Hypernostrization:

1:30:55 Twitter/X have started testing “Not A Bot”

Mining:

1:31:11 Volcano Energy and Luxor Technology Corporation unveil "Lava Pool"
1:31:17 MDK Progress Update

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-54

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I'm joined by guests Matt Hill, Odell, and Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:04 SATSLINK

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:13:28 Deep-TEMPEST: a deep learning method that recovers great quality images from unintentional electromagnetic emanations of HDMI.

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:20:07 Bitcoin Core
00:30:43 Start9
00:37:29 COLDCARD
00:46:16 Trident
00:49:47 Specter Desktop
00:53:24 Blockstream Green iOS
00:53:40 BTC Pay Server
00:53:50 Jam v0.1.6
00:58:29 The Bitcoin Company
1:04:23 Krux
1:08:18 Trezor
1:14:23 Simple Bitcoin Wallet
1:14:36 Samurai Dojo
1:14:49 Peach

• Project Spotlight

1:15:11 MegaWatt added the TAPSIGNER as 2-factor authentication method for their app
1:16:12 Building a community members only card with SATSCHIP for all Julio Collectors
1:17:13 BIP39-XOR
1:17:55 BIP-329 Python Library
1:20:52 ParmanodL
1:21:22 ParmaZero
1:21:34 UTXOracle

Lightning & L2+

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:24:45 LND
1:29:14 Mutiny Node
1:29:25 Mutiny Wallet
1:34:46 Breez
1:35:35 Phoenix
1:38:27 Alby
1:40:24 eNuts
1:40:32 Minibits
1:40:56 BitBanana
1:41:12 Torq
1:41:19 10101
1:41:50 River
1:42:03 Gigsats
1:42:17 lnprototest
1:42:25 Fedimint

• Project Spotlight

1:42:36 Proxnut
1:43:01 Cashu LNURL

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

1:43:15 NDK
1:43:22 rust-nostr
1:43:26 Damus
1:43:33 Primal
1:43:40 0xchat
1:43:59 Snort
1:44:31 Amethyst
1:44:34 Coracle
1:44:36 Nos.social
1:44:37 Nostur
1:44:39 Gossip
1:44:40 Lume
1:44:41 Agora Social
1:44:43 nostrss
1:44:45 Spring - The Nostr Browser
1:44:46 Amber

• Project Spotlight

1:44:49 Exit.pub
1:48:50 ZapThreads
1:48:57 $Prism
1:49:03 Yana
1:49:07 formstr

Boosts

2:01:58 Shoutout to top boosters: 🏆 @grantgilliam, @apemithrandir & @vake

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

2:04:02 ZeroSync have succeeded in creating an instant light client sync
2:04:12 MARA Pool mined an invalid block at 809478 on mainnet
2:04:21 GPUtopia

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-53

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I'm joined by guests James O'Beirne⁠ & Rijndael to discuss CTV.

Discussion Topics

00:01:23 Guest intros
00:01:58 Recap
00:03:10 Technical overview of covenants
00:14:41 Watchtowers
00:16:16 Use cases for vaulting & scripts
00:21:53 Use cases for vaulting & scripts
00:26:10 Covenants as a solution to third party
00:27:42 Covenants and censorship risks
00:33:24 Covenants and censorship risks
00:34:07 Risks of major Bitcoin changes
00:39:39 Cryptographic improvements of CTV
00:40:14 Quantifying the scale of change in code
00:46:52 TX hash
00:49:04 Simplicity of CTV
00:50:19 The consensus deadlock
00:55:34 Social coordination and activation
01:05:55 Speedy trial - good or bad for Bitcoin?
01:16:00 Problems with Bitcoin core defaults
01:18:18 The politics of changing Bitcoin
01:23:36 Testing for consensus
01:28:37 State sabotage
01:31:56 Moving forward with activation
01:36:48 State of development and economic
01:53:04 Bitcoin.Review going late night call
01:54:04 Next steps
01:59:58 Bitcoin politics closing summary
02:01:38 Closing thoughts

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-52

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw & Rob Hamilton to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:47 Opensats

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:03:13 Coldcard Donjon Faults SE2 on Mk4
00:07:24 $500,000+ fee Bitcoin transaction
00:12:12 DoS: Fake Lightning Channels
00:15:11 Fortress, BitGo & Ripple customer funds controversy

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:25:04 COLDCARD
00:28:11 Sparrow
00:32:46 libsecp256k1
00:35:12 Liana
00:35:37 BTC Pay Server
00:36:22 Florestra
00:39:33 Robosats
00:39:45 10101
00:40:07 MyCitadel
00:40:25 Bitcoin Tribe
00:41:42 Nunchuk
00:45:03 Simple Bitcoin Wallet
00:45:17 Labelbase
00:48:23 libwally-core

Feature Request Interlude

00:48:46 Simplex integration with Sparrow

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates (Cont.)

00:53:39 Smart Vaults
00:56:05 Parmanode
00:59:15 Nodeyez
00:59:28 joinmarket-clientserver
01:00:17 RoninDojo
01:02:07 RoninUI
01:02:17 Peach
01:03:46 Machankura/8333.mobi
01:03:57 RGB
01:04:27 Seedsigner

• Project Spotlight

01:05:00 Smaug
01:05:24 bitaxeUltra

Lightning & L2+

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:07:06 LND
01:13:08 CLN
01:13:27 mutiny-node
01:15:23 Mutiny Wallet
01:15:32 Bitbanana
01:16:40 Breez
01:16:50 Alby
01:17:01 Fountain
01:17:14 Wallet of Satoshi
01:17:26 lnbits
01:17:31 Nayuta Wallet
01:17:36 Spark Wallet
01:17:41 Satimoto
01:17:47 eNuts
01:18:44 Minibits
01:18:57 Stacker News
01:19:06 Zaprite
01:19:14 Orange Pill App
01:19:22 Emeralize

• Project Spotlight

01:22:28 The Split Kit
01:22:36 ZapLocker
01:22:44 SimLN
01:22:55 Satogram
01:23:05 LNPlay.live

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:23:46 NDK
01:25:07 Snort
01:25:16 Amethyst
01:25:59 Coracle
01:26:04 Current
01:26:09 Lume
01:26:14 Spring - The Nostr Browser
01:26:19 Amber
01:26:30 Mostro

• Project Spotlight

01:26:51 Ditto
01:27:00 nostr-matrix
01:27:29 Favvy

Boosts

01:29:06 Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @ahanniga, @apemithrandir, @wartimepsycho, @dubravko

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:29:33 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

01:39:40 CLBOSS
01:39:58 Support for Mercury Wallet to be discontinued by Mercury Layer

• Lightning & L2

01:40:32 Scaling Lightning roadmap
01:40:41 New LSP FlashSats announced
01:40:49 PeerTube Videos with Lightning plugin
01:40:55 Paid search engine Kagi now Accepts Bitcoin (Lightning)
01:41:00 Bastien Teinturier opened a PR to the bLIPs repo with proposal to Remotely control your LN from your favorite HSM

• Funding

01:41:15 Vulpem Ventures announces an open-source Bitcoin development grant to Burak of $25,000

• Mining

01:41:25 Oman planning to invest $1.1 Billion in Bitcoin mining
01:42:06 Nodal Power raises $13 Million seed round to build renewable energy power plants at landfills

• Business & Finance

01:42:15 NEW: Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z-backed nonprofit acquires Qala
01:42:34 Elon Musk's X Has Licenses in Multiple U.S. States to Process Payments, Including Crypto
01:42:43 Coincorner teams up with Lolly to bring Bitcoin to Lolly tills and kiosks
01:42:52 Bull Bitcoin expands to Costa Rica
01:44:07 Ripple acquires Fortress Trust

• Hyperbitcoinization

01:45:39 Revolut integrates Bitcoin segwit addresses and on-chain withdraw/receive
01:45:56 Coinbase LN integration is official

• Shitcoin Clownery

01:46:23 KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Vitalik Buterin
01:51:29 Worldcoin Meltdown

Reads & Learning Resources

1:51:42 A list of our top recently published reads.

Links & Contacts

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-51

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I'm joined by Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Lloyd Fournier, Jesse Posner & Rijndael to discuss libsecp.

Discussion Topics

00:01:13 Guest intros
00:04:18 Importance of libsecp
00:11:21 Why libsecp was invented
00:15:44 The process of adding Schnoor
00:17:14 Tools and testing
00:25:43 Most interesting thing writing the library
00:34:05 Wrappers and vendors integrating libsecp
00:41:31 Side channel attacks
00:44:35 Testing
00:48:38 Hacspec
00:51:31 Signature types in research
00:52:51 Cross input aggregation
00:55:08 Deciding on what is included in the libsecp release
01:06:10 Are there enough contributors?
01:09:12 Musig2
01:10:28 Governance
01:13:32 Funding
01:14:09 Contributing
01:19:50 Security proofs for FROST
01:20:37 Nested musig FROST proofs
01:26:58 Nonce sharing
01:31:14 Demystifying libsecp

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-50

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I'm joined by Fiatjaf, Hodlbod, and Vitor Pamplona to discuss Nostr Filters & Censorship.

Discussion Topics

00:03:05 Guests' thoughts on censorship
00:13:25 Handling censorship in the nostr design
00:28:59 Scaling nostr and content curation
00:45:44 Portability of nostr
00:49:26 Non-social uses for nostr
00:53:14 Content discovery
00:57:26 Labels and filtering
01:10:15 Influencing clients on content filtering features
01:15:28 NIP concerns
01:28:32 Reflections on nostr
01:44:47 Bonus chat: SimpleX & nostr - private DMs

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-49

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I'm joined by guests William Casarin, Pablo, and Hodlbod to discuss the latest updates in Nostr.

Stats

00:02:19 Stats rundown from Primal

Software Releases & Project Updates

• NIPs

00:03:23 NIP-72
00:14:49 NIP-79

• Clients

00:16:08 Coracle
00:19:36 Damus
00:23:58 Amethyst
00:24:29 Snort
00:31:14 Iris
0:31:31 Nostr.kiwi
00:31:57 njump
00:35:32 Nostur iOS
00:36:37 Lume
00:37:51 Primal

• Development Kits

00:47:40 NDK

• Libraries

00:53:37 Rust Nostr

• Other

00:54:18 Highlighter
00:57:20 Swarmstr
00:58:07 Data Vending Machine - Service Provider
01:04:30 Stemstr is [now live
01:04:40 Amber
01:05:42 Magic Webstore
01:05:52 Nostree.me

• Bitcoin Projects Leveraging Nostr

01:08:01 Geyser integrated Zaps
01:08:53 Umbrel

• Project spotlight

01:10:02 Vendata.io
01:11:54 FOMOstr
01:14:50 Zapgoals
01:14:58 0xchat
01:15:27 atomstr
01:15:54 Vault
01:16:41 w3.do
01:17:21 Imp Chat by Impervious
01:17:21 Pulsar
01:21:19 Spring

News & Noteworthy

• Hypernostrization

01:28:21 Apple allowed Current to keep the zap button on posts

• Events

01:30:23 Nostrasia registrations open
01:31:27 Nostrville
01:32:11 Pleblab Introduces the NostrDev course

Reads & Resources

• 01:32:50 Here's a list of our top recently released reads and resources:

NOSTR GUIDE by uselessshit
Apple allowed Current App to keep the zap button on posts by Current on Habla.news

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-48

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I'm joined by guests Nifty, Nadav & Vivek to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:41 Opensats

Vulnerability Disclosures

00:02:22 BitForge: Fireblocks researchers uncover vulnerabilities in over 15 major wallet providers
00:03:58 Electrum v4.4.6 release fixes several lightning-related security issues

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:10:04 Electrum v4.4.6
00:11:03 nix-bitcoin
00:20:59 Blockstream Green iOS v4.0.11
00:25:11 Bitcoin Tribe v2.2.1
00:25:19 Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.4
00:25:28 Ronin UI v2.2.0
00:25:51 10101 v1.2.1

Interlude: Opcodes affecting L2 🧨

00:28:19 The guests discuss the different opcodes and specifically how they will affect L2.

Bitcoin (cont.)

• Software Releases & Project Updates (cont.)

00:44:20 Trezor v23.8.1

• Project Spotlight

00:45:01 Smart Vaults (formally Coinstr)
00:46:00 Nodeyez
00:46:30 Satoshi Agent
00:46:52 Royllo Explorer
00:47:20 Sovereign Stack
00:47:37 SeedHammer
00:48:27 Chaincase - Free your coins from their linear public history without ever taking control

Interlude: Privacy Solutions

00:49:10 The guests discuss their thoughts on different privacy solutions

Lightning & L2(+)

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:56:18 Core Lightning v23.08rc3 "Satoshi's Successor"
01:03:31 Phoenix Android v2.0.0
01:05:27 LND
01:11:46 Zeus v0.8.0
01:12:10 Alby v3.1.0 🌌 A Cosmic Embrace
01:14:33 Mutiny Node v0.4.12
01:15:39 Wallet of Satoshi v2.2.5
01:16:02 Blink v2.2.111
01:16:10 Clams v1.8.3
01:20:19 BitBanana v0.6.6
01:20:32 Lightning Terminal v0.10.5-alpha
01:20:50 Osmo v2.5.0
01:21:07 Stacker News
01:21:23 Joltz Rewards

• Project Spotlight

01:21:47 StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
01:21:58 Lnshort.it
01:22:18 Lightning-GPT
01:22:31 Bitmatrix
01:22:43 Voltpay
01:22:51 Emeralize

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:24:15 SimpleX Chat [v5.2.3]

Boosts

01:25:06 Shoutout to top boosters: 🏆 @cumr0cket, @transisto, @apemithrandir, @dubravko, @chunky, @michaelmatulef & @garykrause_

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:27:23 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters

News & Noteworthy

• Lightning & L2(+)

01:30:25 LND and LDK successfully interop test blinded paths

• Business

1:30:37 Parker Lewis and Will Cole join Zaprite

• Funding

01:30:54 BitGo Secures $100M Series C Funding

• Mining

01:31:37 Bitmain, Anchorage Expected to Take Equity in Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific

• Political

01:31:49 Pro-Bitcoin Candidate Javier Milei Snags Primary Presidential Elections in Argentina

Reads

• 01:33:05:07 Here's a list of our top recently published reads:

Torq's Twitter Thread on HTLCs
How Lightning Powers the Global AI Economy ... Where the Machines Pay You⚡🤖🌎 by Ryan Gentry
Thoughts on scaling and consensus changes by JamesOB
GrapheneOS: De-Google your phone and improve your privacy by Bitcoiner.guide
Field Report: Implementing MuSig2 by Brandon Black from BitGo
How (Actually) Open AI Wins by Max Webster
Bitcoin’s Lighting Network: Fast, Cheap, And A Lifeline For Latin America by Mickey Koss
Looking Ahead: Lightning Payments in 2025 by River
No-Code + AI + Bitcoin: The Ultimate Trio for Future Workflows by Alby
Fiat Ruins Everything by Jimmy Song

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-47

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I'm joined by guests Odell, Harry Sudock, & Marty Bent to go through the list.

Timecodes coming soon. See the link below for the list.

Links & Contacts

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-46

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I'm joined by Rijndael and Rob Hamilton to debate MPC vs Script.

Discussion Topics:

00:01:08 Intros
00:01:52 Team MPC Primer
00:03:49 Team Script Primer
00:04:24 Simplicity
00:05:31 Auditability
00:05:31 Real world use
00:08:23 Interactivity and nonce manangement
00:15:21 Musig
00:19:26 Shitcoin use
00:21:37 Signing schemes
00:26:48 Switching sides
00:29:22 Multisig vs single sig
00:31:29 Covenants and transaction introspection opcodes
00:37:06 Taproot
00:45:53 Adoption of new features
00:54:55 Covenants
00:59:19 Roundup
01:03:57 Trident
01:10:24 Scripts & HSMs
01:16:33 Miniscript
01:20:42 Team script custody tooling (Rijndael Project)

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-45

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I'm joined by guests Miljan, Pablo, Tony, & Kieran to go through the list of Nostr updates.

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-44

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, James O'Beirne & Rijndael to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:06 Opensats
00:04:52 Coinkite

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:06:57 Sparrow v1.7.8
00:25:54 Mercury Wallet v0.9.0
00:27:04 Fully Noded
00:28:48 MyCitadel v1.4
00:29:31 Nunchuk iOS v1.9.28 / Android 1.9.33
00:35:10 BlueWallet v6.4.6
00:35:28 Blixt Wallet v0.6.8
00:37:52 BDK v1.0.0-alpha.1
00:42:25 Keeper v1.0.7
00:42:44 BTC Pay Server v1.10.3
00:42:59 Parmanode Update
00:43:10 RGB Core v0.10.5
00:44:38 StartOS v0.3.4.3
00:44:59 Bisq v1.9.12
00:45:11 Peach v0.2.11 / v0.2.10
00:45:31 Orange Pill App 1.4.4
00:45:37 BitGo MuSig2

• Project Spotlight

00:47:04 Wallby
00:48:04 PDK
00:50:13 Bitpac
00:51:23 BIP39 Colors

Lightning & L2

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:54:23 Phoenix 3rd Generation Beta
00:56:48 Mutiny Wallet
01:05:27 Mutiny Node
01:05:49 Torq
01:07:21 lnbits
01:07:53 Stacker News
01:08:13 Cashu
01:12:10 Zeus LN node
01:13:40 sphinx-key
01:14:46 Breez SDK Core
01:15:18 Validating Lightning Signer
01:15:49 LN Markets
01:15:58 Pocket
01:16:03 Oak Node
01:16:08 BitBanana
01:16:27 10101
01:16:48 8333.mobi
01:16:59 CivKit Roadmap
01:17:25 Bolt.observer
01:17:30 Alby

• Project Spotlight

01:17:41 Orb
01:18:17 P-38
01:18:47 LNDg
01:18:55 Minibits
01:19:05 Lightning Prisms
01:20:01 Git Lurker

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:20:30 Amethyst
01:20:49 Primal.net

Privacy Software

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:21:02 Simplex Chat v5.2.0-beta.2

Nostr

• Project spotlight

01:23:02 Zapple Pay by Ben Carman
01:23:19 Zap.Stream

Boosts

01:23:25 Shoutout to top boosters: @ahanniga, @michaelmatulef, @greggrahamtx, @apemithrandir, @vake, @owen_ & @dash

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

01:26:14 Block MDK Update
01:26:33 f2pool Transaction Accelerator
01:26:47 Chris Belcher health issues.

• Lightning & L2

01:27:17 Attempted lightning backends vulnerability exploit
01:27:48 Lightning Labs AI For All
01:32:49 Simple Bitcoin Wallet to remove lightning

• Community

01:36:35 Bitcoin Park celebrating first year

• Business & Finance

01:37:57 MicroStrategy 12.3k Bitcoin purchase
01:39:22 Brazilian Bitcoin Startup Bipa Raises $1.4 Million
01:39:28 Binance Completes LN Integration

• Government & Political

01:39:44 Capital gains tax for Bitcoin in Slovakia reduced
01:39:52 North Carolina House Advances Bill To Study Virtual Currency
01:39:57 Kraken Ordered to Turn Over User Info to IRS
01:40:04 Belarus Looks to Ban Peer-to-Peer Crypto Transactions
01:40:14 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. holds $100,001-$250,000 BTC

• Privacy

01:40:29 Huobi accidentally exposed a set of credentials enabling access to cloud storage
01:40:59 BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Surveillance

Reads

• 01:41:16 Here's a list of our top recently published reads:

Deep dive into Oracle-Based Conditional payments
A Technical Overview of Virtual PSBTs in the Taproot Assets Protocol
A Technical Walkthrough of Hash Time Locked Contracts and Lightning Channel Operations
Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Open Music is Bringing a New Sound to Podcasts
The Rise of Lightning Service Providers
Simplicity: Holes and Side Effects
Pseudonymity: An FAQ for Bitcoiners
The many faces of Schnorr
Introducing the new Phoenix: a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet
Building Blocks of Simplicity: Values and Types
Zapplepay: Zap Even if They Say it's Forbidden
Buying non-KYC Bitcoin with AgoraDesk Guide
Blixt Wallet Guide

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-43

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I'm joined by guests Alex B, Rob Hamilton & Rijndael to discuss The Bitcoin Script Project.

Discussion Topics:

00:01:11 Guest introductions
00:01:49 Introduction to Bitcoin scripts
00:05:10 Outlining the self custody scaling problem
00:08:19 Summary of the various proposals
00:12:44 Communicating information about the proposals
00:17:46 Complexity of Bitcoin development: feature or bug?
00:21:48 Unopinionated presentation of the opcodes
00:25:51 Leveraging existing primitives
00:28:54 Coordination, communication and interoperability
00:33:53 Accessibility
00:37:48 Leaderless development and rough consensus
00:42:22 Next steps
00:45:35 Community discourse
00:47:30 Improving the feedback loop between industry and core development
00:50:38 Prerequisite knowledge required to contribute to Bitcoin
00:54:13 Open development, assessing claims and knowledge sharing
01:04:41 Final thoughts

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-42

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, Rob Hamilton & Alex Leishman to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:53 #LearnToBuild
00:09:18 COLDCARD PRs
00:17:44 Censorship rant: Damus vs Apple

Security Updates

00:24:11 Firmware Extraction: Evil-Maid Attacks on Blockstream Jade Hardware Wallet

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:31:04 COLDCARD
00:41:08 Sparrow
01:00:26 Nunchuk iOS
01:00:37 Blockstream Green Desktop
01:01:15 Keeper
01:01:53 Trezor
01:02:09 Umbrel
01:04:14 StartOS

• Project Spotlight:

01:18:58 mnemonikey
01:19:44 Runcitadel
01:19:54 BitcoinExplorer.org
01:20:32 tapsim

Lightning

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:20:42 Alby
01:21:09 Blink
01:21:32 cashu
01:22:06 Mutiny Wallet
01:22:58 mutiny-node
01:24:21 Eclair
01:26:05 TORQ
01:28:53 Voltage Surge
01:29:05 Boltz
01:29:18 Lightning Terminal
01:29:28 Zebedee
01:29:33 Stacker News

• Project Spotlight

01:29:46 LDK Node
01:29:59 Coffee Plugin Manager
01:30:15 cashu-rs-mint
01:30:21 Lightning Piggy

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:30:29 Primal One-Tap Zaps:

• Project Spotlight

01:30:47 Oak Node

Boosts

00:44:10 Shoutout to top boosters: @apemithrandir, @dubravko, @michaelmatulef

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:32:11 [256] - Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments
01:32:27 [255] - Discussion about the taproot annex: & Draft BIP for silent payments

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

01:32:38 Ledger Recover Cryptographic Protocol White Paper
01:33:01 Bitkey invites first external customers in Beta launch
01:33:06 Binance Pool launches the BTC Transaction Accelerator
01:33:11 Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Nodebox
01:33:42 Bitcoin Centric-ai "Spirit Of Satoshi" Unveiled

• Lightning

01:34:13 Binance joins the lightning network
01:34:49 Lightning network is approaching ATH levels
01:34:58 Santander blog post highlights benefits of LN on scalability

• Misc

01:35:06 taproot-assets

• Finance

01:36:34 Crypto custody firm Prime Trust has a "shortfall in customer funds
01:41:51 The Bitcoin ETF Race
01:42:10 Hong Kong's HSBC allows customers to trade Bitcoin ETFs

• Shitcoin Wreckage

01:42:22 Unregistered Securities Removed from Robinhood

• Security

01:42:29 North Korean Hackers Pocketed More Than $100M in Atomic Wallet Hack
01:43:30 Malicious 'Trezor Wallet Suite' App in Apple AppStore Steals Crypto

• Funding

01:47:24 New Spiral grantee - Matthew Ramsden

• Mining

01:47:53 Riot Purchases 7.6 Eh/s Of Next Generation Miners From MicroBT, Manufactured In The United States

Reads

01:48:00 Deep Dive into Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A detailed exploration of zero-knowledge proofs
01:48:08 Ark Layer 2: A Groundbreaking Development in Bitcoin Transactional Landscape
01:48:13 Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship
01:48:27 The Grug Brained Developer

Links & Contacts

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
Email: producer@coinkite.com
Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-41

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I'm joined by guests Bumi & Mandrik to go through the list.

CORRECTION Release notes at 00:19:12 are for Trezor not Ledger.

Housekeeping

00:02:24 More NFC card designs⁠
00:02:28 Bare chip with flex PCB SATSCHIP⁠ in stock in a few days
00:02:35 Satscard.com fiat balance display
00:02:40 OpenSats⁠ looking for applications

Bitcoin

• Security Updates

00:03:17 Damus to be removed from app store
00:04:22 Zeus rejected by Apple
00:06:53 MutinyWallet mainnet⁠⁠
00:08:09 Alby PWA in the works?

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:11:05 Bitcoin Core
00:11:50 Nunchuk
00:14:53 BTC Pay Server
00:18:56 Robosats
00:19:12 Trezor
00:20:28 Seedsigner
00:20:58 Bitcoin Keeper
00:22:14 MyNode
00:22:40 raspiblitz
00:24:27 Parmanode
00:24:42 electrs
00:25:40 Mercury Wallet
00:26:15 Blockstream Green Desktop
00:26:25 taproot-assets⁠
00:27:09 BTC Map Android
00:27:20 Orange Pill App
00:27:37 Polar

• Project Spotlight:

00:28:56 Eclair CLI
00:29:10 BTC Warp
00:29:42 Musig playground

HAM stuff lunch break

00:29:56 FX-4CR radio and src

Lightning

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:31:31 LND
00:32:33 Bluewallet
00:33:02 Alby
00:35:24 Fountain
00:35:58 Zeus
00:36:45 Wallet of Satoshi
00:37:49 Satimoto demo
00:38:23 Nutstash
00:38:35 Mash LN wallet
00:38:50 Bitrefill LN login

• Project Spotlight

00:41:47 eNuts
00:42:05 Scaling Lightning
00:42:13 Walletano
00:42:49 BitBanana

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:43:53 Zebedee X nostr

Boosts

00:44:10 Shoutout to top boosters: @bradmillscan7, @mrmr, @apemithrandir, @vake, @wartimepsycho.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

00:46:07 State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs [252]
00:46:22 Proposal for managed joinpool protocol & Transaction relay over Nostr [253]
00:47:39 Using MATT to replicate CTV and manage joinpools [254]
00:47:46 Discussion about the taproot annex & Draft BIP for silent payments [255]

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

00:47:53 Home Servers going mainstream
00:48:43 Bitcoin Volunteer Opportunity Board

• Lightning & L2

00:48:56 bolt.observer to open source LiquidOps
00:49:05 Liquid Swaps by Boltz
00:49:14 Six New Liquid Federation Members
00:49:27 Swan LN withdrawals in alpha test
00:49:33 Blockstream open sources Greenlight client repo
00:50:38 BTC Prague X Fedi
00:51:13 MercuryLayer Announced

• Privacy

00:54:17 Vexl Foundation⁠ by SatoshiLabs

• Funding

00:56:43 Brink
00:57:47 BOL2 VLS grant

• Mining

00:57:59 Anti-Bitcoin mining bill is dead
00:58:06 Tether Mining Investments

• Business

01:01:09 Strike
01:01:16 Google Cloud X Voltage
01:01:21 Bitkey X Coinbase & Cash App Partnership

• Political

01:01:29 SEC Filings

• Other

01:01:46 TBD Web5 Verifiable Credentials Toolkit
01:01:56 Bitcoin Audible, helmed by popular host Guy Swann, was served with a lawsuit on Friday (Bugled!)

Reads

01:03:34 The Signal & the Nonce⁠: Tracing ASIC Fingerprints to Reshape Our Understanding of Bitcoin Mining by Karim Helmy, Lucas Nuzzi, Alex Mead, Kyle Waters, and the Coin Metrics Team
01:03:51 Ark AMA with Burak [Stackernews⁠]
01:03:56 Securing a $100M Lightning node [Acinq⁠]
01:04:19 Explaining Replace By Fee by Nifty⁠
01:04:24 Normal operation and closure of a pre-taproot LN channel [ellemouton⁠]
01:04:33 Bitcoin address types compared: P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, and more [Unchained⁠]
01:04:44 Sparrow Wallet: Ultimate Quick Start Guide For Beginners [Athena⁠]
01:04:48 RoboSats Guide [⁠Bitcoiner.Guide⁠]
01:04:53 Darkpool⁠: A chaumian blinded ecash like co-op mixing pool for self custodial savings accompanying Mints
01:05:07 Beginner friendly guide to Open Source projects [⁠bitcoiner.guide⁠]
01:06:01 A collection of resources related to covenants by ⁠Robin Linus⁠

Links & Contacts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-40

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I'm joined by guests ⁠Fiatjaf⁠, ⁠Miljan⁠ & ⁠Pablo⁠ to go through the list of Nostr updates.

Housekeeping

00:02:28 Opensats
00:03:22 Fiatjaf fund

Software Releases & Project Updates

• Clients

00:03:45 Damus
00:06:07 Nosotros
00:07:53 Snort
00:08:48 Amethyst
00:12:33 Onyx
00:15:34 Coracle
00:18:11 Nos.social
00:19:00 Current
00:23:18 Plebstr
00:25:43 simplex
00:27:32 Primal
00:46:23 Agora
00:48:15 Nostur
00:51:06 Nostrmo
00:53:18 Nostri.chat

• Services

00:55:18 Nostr Plebs Email

• Libraries

00:55:43 rust-nostr

• Relays

00:57:28 nostream

• Projects

00:58:01 nblog
00:58:50 Arcade
01:00:04 OstrichGram
01:00:42 Nostr Market
01:03:30 Advanced Nostr Search
01:05:14 nostr.build
01:08:22 Highlighter
01:16:57 satellite.earth
01:24:27 njump
01:26:10 nak.nostr
01:27:12 Zaplife

Project Spotlight

01:30:26 Nostr Nests
01:34:30 nostr-chat-fyne
01:36:29 nsecbunker
01:42:50 kind3.xyz
01:45:19 Nostrscript
01:46:44 nostrrr
01:47:50 YakiHonne
01:49:12 NDK

News & Noteworthy

01:52:09 Primal open sourced their Nostr caching service
01:53:16 Nostrasia event
01:53:33 Calle creates a basic construction of Nostr silent DMs

Project Spotlight (cont)

1:53:58 Zapddit
01:54:14 Nostr Sovrn
01:54:30 Ephemerelay
01:54:39 write.nostr.com
01:54:45 nosta.me
01:55:00 listr.lol
01:55:13 nostr.band statistics

Reads

01:55:34 nsecBunker: Your Nostr Keys Management Fortress by Tony

Links & Contacts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-39

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I'm joined by guests Jesse Posner, Rijndael & Vivek to discuss FROST.

Discussion Topics:

00:01:12 Guest introductions
00:01:50 What is FROST?
00:09:54 FROST methods for key generation and secret sharing
00:14:47 FROST use cases
00:21:22 Nonces
00:25:39 FROST + Nostr
00:27:14 Nonces (cont)
00:28:43 Implications for signing devices
00:38:46 Implications for lightning-
00:41:56 Derisking potential of FROST
00:48:20 State of implementations
00:51:35 Nostr signing
00:59:42 FROST tradeoffs
01:05:02 ROAST-
01:08:31 How does coordination work?
01:19:04 Libraries and repositories: where should FROST live?
01:27:34 Broadcast channels and authentication-
01:31:20 Final thoughts

Links & Contacts:

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-38

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I'm joined by guests Steve Lee, Future Paul & Stephan Livera, to go through the list.

Housekeeping

00:01:44 OpenSats
00:05:08 Reproducible builds

Bitcoin

• Security Updates

00:06:50 Ledger miniscript vulnerability
00:08:12 Ledger Recover

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:23:30 Coldcard Mk4 6.0.0X
00:29:28 Liana
00:33:55 nunchuk-android
00:34:10 Mempool.space
00:42:17 electrum
00:42:47 Mercury Wallet
00:43:30 BlueWallet
00:43:57 libwally-core
00:44:54 startOS
00:45:57 Robosats
00:46:31 mycitadel-desktop
00:48:31 Blockstream Green Desktop
00:48:53 Parmanode
00:49:16 Whirlpool
00:52:14 Orange Pill App

• Project Spotlight

00:52:39 Lnscribe
00:54:29 Joltz rewards
00:54:38 The Bitcoin Legacy Project
00:55:18 lndk

Lightning & L2

• Software Releases & Project Updates

00:58:15 Cashu
01:04:01 Mutiny
01:11:23 Alby
01:12:27 lnbits
01:12:52 Core Lightning
01:14:37 TORQ
01:14:51 Satimoto
01:15:10 Swisspay
01:15:20 Polar
01:15:33 Nayuta Wallet
01:15:46 Wavlake
01:15:55 River

• Project Spotlight

01:15:59 Zap Planner
01:17:07 Vortex
01:18:51 Etta Wallet

Nostr

• Software Releases & Project Updates

01:19:22 Damus 1tapzap

• Project Spotlight

01:20:02 nostr-zap
01:21:05 nostr-control
01:21:35 Wasabi Nostr

Boosts

Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @apemithrandir, @obex, @northofthewall, @vake, @hipocrates, @dubravko

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:25:52 LSPs specifications [251]
01:30:15 Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting [251]

News & Noteworthy

• Lightning & L2

01:37:53 Burak announces Ark
01:46:15 MicroStrategy announces Lightning Platform
01:46:28 Wallet of Satoshi Has Processed 9m LN Payments
01:46:46 Zebedeeio announce the Node.js SDK for the ZEBEDEE API

• Privacy

01:47:02 BULL BITCOIN becomes a No-KYC exchange
01:47:08 HODL HODL and BISQ announce lightning integration
01:47:37 Lava Launched in Miami
01:49:37 Amboss privacy concerns

• Integration

01:51:06 Total Play has integrated Bitcoin Lightning payments
01:51:16 IBEX Mercado announced partnership with Grupo Salinas

• Business News

01:51:23 Strike expands Bitcoin payments to 65 countries, moves global headquarters to El Salvador
01:51:39 Paxful is back online
01:51:48 Stripe announced the launch of a Stripe-hosted fiat-to-crypto onramp
01:54:35 Fold Expands to El Salvador as Base for Latin American Operations
01:54:59 Bittrex Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

• Funding

01:55:06 Fedi
01:56:32 HRF gifts 16.5 BTC via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide
01:56:45 River Raises $35 Million
01:56:50 Tether will allocate >15% of operating profits to purchase Bitcoin
01:58:32 Brink partners with Marathon Digital to raise $1,000,000 for funding Bitcoin Core development

• Legal & Political

See full shownotes (link below)

• Reads

01:59:33 Here's a few of our recent recommended reads: Watchtowers on Lightning Network by Voltage.cloud, How do Lightning Network Fees Work by Voltage.cloud, Seeding a Bitcoin marketplace by Pablo, Using Spacechains and Fedimint to solve scaling by Fiatjaf, Bitcoin, CTV Covenants, and Enigma by Polyd_

Links & Contacts

• Audience Questions

02:04:01 "How many words of a 24 word seed phrase you'd need to know (in the correct order), for the full seed phrase to become realistically brute-forceable?"

Links & Contacts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-37/

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I'm joined by guests Tbast, Dusty, Tony, Jeff & Vivek to discuss lightning privacy and splicing.

Discussion Topics:

00:01:17 Housekeeping
00:02:14 Guest introductions
00:04:29 Current state of LN privacy
00:05:40 Receiver privacy
00:06:58 Blinded paths
00:12:31 Obscurity of lightning
00:13:47 Onchain privacy compared to lightning privacy
00:19:57 Lightning privacy challenges
00:21:57 PTLCs
00:22:48 Routing and LSPs
00:24:20 Gossip filters
00:25:36 Gossip and BOLT7 summary
00:27:27 Speed of development
00:29:22 Lightning implementations and compatability
00:31:38 BOLT12
00:34:00 Why an additional node implementation? (LDK)
00:40:04 Feature experimentation and market validation
00:43:29 Communicating feature sets
00:45:05 Payment descriptions
00:47:32 Nostr and zaps
00:50:25 Custodial lightning and censorship resistance
00:54:39 Splicing
00:57:51 Scaling
01:01:32 Bitcoin core changes that would advance lightning
01:08:06 Testing, breaking and adversarial actions
01:12:48 Shadow channels
01:15:52 Splicing (cont.)
01:22:04 Payjoins and keysend
01:25:52 Blockspace concerns
01:34:04 Taproot channels and gossip
01:41:09 Splicing (cont.)
01:42:13 Signing, UTXOs and pre-signed splices
01:47:15 FROST
01:47:60 Swap-in potentium
01:48:49 ecash
01:53:18 Final thoughts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-36

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I'm joined by guests Sjors Provoost, Nicholas Gregory & Daniel Prince to go through the list.

Bitcoin

• Software Releases & Project Updates

See link to full shownotes below

• Project Spotlight

See link to full shownotes below

Lightning

• Software Releases & Project Updates

See link to full shownotes below

• Project Spotlight

See link to full shownotes below

Nostr

See link to full shownotes below

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

See link to full shownotes below

Boosts

Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @erik99, @scarcity, @apemithrandir, @vake, @jcdenton & @dash.

News & Noteworthy

• Bitcoin

See link to full shownotes below

• Lightning & L2

See link to full shownotes below

• Nostr

See link to full shownotes below

• Mining

See link to full shownotes below

• Privacy

See link to full shownotes below

• Funding

See link to full shownotes below

• Reads

See link to full shownotes below

Audience Questions

See link to full shownotes below

Shoutouts

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-35/

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I'm joined by guests Fiatjaf, William Casarin, Pablo & Odell to discuss Nostr.

Timecodes coming soon.

Links & Contacts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-34/

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I'm joined by guests JamesOB, Greg, Ben Carman and Rijndael to discuss OP_VAULT.

Timecodes

00:01:26 Introductions
00:02:35 Primer on OP_VAULT
00:08:37 How is CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY achieved?
00:13:12 Fee issues on CTV
00:15:20 How has the proposal evolved?
00:17:32 Simplification of OP_VAULT proposal
00:21:34 Script libraries and CTV templates
00:23:52 OP_VAULT criticisms
00:34:22 Do we need OP_VAULT? Why change Bitcoin?
00:36:44 OP_VAULT Opsec
00:43:30 Cancel paths
00:47:30 Why do OP_VAULT along with CTV?
00:49:57 OP_VAULT + ANYPREVOUT
00:50:28 Blockspace concerns
00:52:41 Use in chaumian mints/ecash
00:53:25 Managing security between L1 & L2
00:56:56 Vaults & DLCs
00:59:10 How do we activate OP_VAULT?
01:02:43 Is there enough interest to do the work?
01:04:05 Investment insurance concerns
01:08:56 Now really, how do we activate OP_VAULT??
01:13:01 Taproot & Segwit complexity VS OP_VAULT
01:16:33 OP_VAULT product market fit
01:18:47 Recursiveness of OP_VAULT
01:19:53 OP_VAULT main selling points
01:26:04 Multisig, OP_VAULT and improving HODL features
01:32:14 Final thoughts

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-33/

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I'm joined by guests ⁠⁠⁠⁠Future Paul & Calle to go through the list.

Timecodes

Coming soon

Links & Contacts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-32/

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I'm joined by guests Calle, Eric Sirion, Odell and Rijndael to discuss ecash.

Discussion Topics:

00:01:30 Guest introductions
00:02:59 Chaumian ecash origins
00:08:04 ecash integration with monetary networks
00:13:49 Technicals of ecash
00:23:17 Supply and auditability
00:27:07 Is ecash the third layer of Bitcoin?
00:33:48 Cashu
00:38:12 Fedimint
00:45:09 Federated signing and sovling the double spend problem
00:51:26 Fedimint tradeoffs
00:55:24 How does the federation work?
00:57:34 Fedimint denomications problem
00:58:44 How is a federation formed?
01:03:49 Comparing Fedimint to liquid
01:07:55 Ease of use setting up a mint
01:10:14 Running a federation/setting up a mint
01:18:27 Proof of reserves in ecash
01:33:59 Onchain vs lightning mints
01:36:45 Auditability and proof of liabilities
01:39:28 Fedipools
01:45:32 Scriptable ecash
01:53:59 Nostr + ecash
01:58:16 Naming ecash units of account
02:00:49 ecash integration and intercompatability
02:06:13 Final thoughts

Notes & Resources:

Coming soon

Links & Contacts:

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-31

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I'm joined by guests ⁠Nicholas Gregory, ⁠Rijndael & Odell to go through the list.

Housekeeping

Coldcard colors
Coldcard Q1 PCB test production
Miami BTC Sessions Workshop
Check out BR029

Software Releases & Project Updates

Bitcoin:
Sparrow v1.7.4
Specter Desktop v2.0.1
WasabiGPT & Wasabi v2.0.3
Mercury Wallet v0.8.10
Nunchuk android v1.9.28
Bitnob v1.138 & v1.140
The Mempool Open Source Project v2.5.0
Robosats
Cashu NUT-08: Lower Lightning fees
Liana v0.3.1 hot and Advancing! (And fixed!)
Samurai Dojo v1.19.0
HodlHodl
Lightning:
Blixt v0.6.5
Zeus v0.7.4
Blink v2.1.79
TORQ v0.19.1
LND v0.16.0
Core Lightning v23.02.2: CBDC Backing Layer III
Lightning Terminal v0.9.0-alpha
The Bitcoin Company v1.27
ZEBEDEE Borderless Payments
LNURL-pay extension
Nostr:
Damus v1.4.0
Nosotros v0.3.2.3-alpha
Amethyst v0.32.0
snort.social v0.1.6
Nostri.chat v0.1.
Algia v0.0.15

Boosts

Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @northofthewall, @hightraverse, @apemithrandir, @obex, @mirkorainer, @ahanniga, @gerrrrt

Project spotlight

The Bitcoin Time Capsule
Speed Bitcoin POS
blowater
10101
LED Boltcards
Plebbin
Floresta
BDK v1.0.0-alpha.0 Pre-release
OpenOrdex

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

243: TypeScript library for miniscript descriptors released

News & Noteworthy

Bitcoin:
MicroStrategy Repays $205M Bitcoin-Collateralized Loan at 22% Discount, Acquires Additional 6,455 BTC
Block enters testing phase
Bitkey
Bitcoin Product Community launched
ZeroSync & Blockstream to Broadcast Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Space
Lightning:
lnroom.live - Learn how to hack on Core Lightning
What Are Blinded Paths And How Do They Work?
c= Lightning node is now up and running
"The future of lightning is non-custodial" - Igor Korsakov
BoltCard Wallet launched a new LNDhub-based wallet
Bitfinex Labs LN node
Lightning Prisms
Lightning on Blockstream Green
Kollider Wallet Launched
Strike Brings Lightning-Fast Money Transfers from the U.S. to Vietnam
Route blinding added to the Lightning specification
Nostr:
Ben Carman analytics on Nostr zaps
LNBits announces Nostr Market
DIY Nostr signing device launched by lnbits
Self hosted blog bounty claimed
Two more Nostr bounties added: long form (kind23) bounty & podcast RSS feed replacement
Stemstr
Privacy:
The Mullvad Browser
Twitter may be banning search while using some VPNs
Justice Department Investigation Leads to Takedown of Darknet Cryptocurrency Mixer 'ChipMixer'
LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs? (Article)
RoninDojo launches privacy phone RoninMobile
Funding:
Mutiny Wallet raised just over $300k during our preseed funding round
brink.dev receives $100,000 donation from The Draper Foundation
Political:
The President's Annual Economic Report to Congress Attacks Bitcoin
New EU measures to restrict transactions in cash and crypto assets
US Government Sold 9,861 BTC Stolen From Silkroad
Mining:
Bitcoin's hashrate touched 400 Exahash
Events:
Nostr Japan announced for Novemeber 1-3
The SATSx Hackathon successfully united 11 innovative projects
Adoption:
MercadoLibre Enables Bitcoin Trading in Chile
El Salvador Launches Cubo+ Educational Program
Reads:
Purple Text, Orange Highlights: How nostr can benefit readers and writers (by Gigi)
Other:
Bitstamp suspends Services in Canada with 3 Days Notice

Audience Questions

"Is it possible to create your own multisig vault on paper, without using a wallet like Sparrow or Nunchuk?"
"Will any combination of the 2048 seed words generate a valid private key?

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-30/

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I'm joined by guests Andrew Poelstra and Adam Gibson to discuss SegWit and related issues including taproot, schnoor, inscriptions and the witness discount.

00:02:14 Introductions to guests
00:05:06 Introductions to episode
00:06:12 bech32
00:15:46 The malleability problem
00:22:23 Mental model for understanding malleability
00:26:16 Primer on SegWit
00:36:23 Why does witness data have a discount?
00:42:40 What is sighash?
00:46:55 How is the weight calculated?
00:53:19 Inputs and outputs
00:58:41 Importance of the UTXO set
01:02:45 Block size considerations
01:04:13 Calculating the witness data discount
01:09:00 Introduction to Taproot and Schnoor
01:11:08 Schnoor signatures
01:21:01 Taproot
01:36:59 Taproot use cases
01:40:31 Timelocks, covenants and OP_VAULT
01:44:44 Taproot + lightning
01:47:17 Ordinals and inscriptions
02:06:40 References
02:09:11 Final thoughts

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-29/

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I'm joined by guests Bumi, Vivek & Guy Swann to go through the list.

Shownotes

Coming soon. (For now you can get the full shownotes at bitcoin.review.)

Links & Contacts:

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-28/

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I'm joined by guests Steve Myers, Steve Lee, Thunderbiscuit & Elias to discuss Bitcoin Client building blocks.

Discussion Topics

Coming soon...

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-27/

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I'm joined by guests Craig Raw, Lyn Alden & Ben Carman to go through the list.

Housekeeping

Notes coming soon

Software Releases & Project Updates

Notes coming soon

Project spotlight

Notes coming soon

Boosts

Notes coming soon

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

Notes coming soon

News & Noteworthy

Notes coming soon

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-26/

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I'm joined by guests Sjors Provoost, James O'Beirne & Mike Schmidt to discuss Bitcoin Core development.

Discussion Topics:

00:00:52 Guest introductions
00:07:48 The beginning of Bitcoin development
00:12:08 Modern Bitcoin development
00:12:57 The process for making basic changes to Bitcoin
00:23:35 Who decides what gets worked on?
00:39:05 Who chooses what gets merged?
00:46:31 BIPs
01:00:03 Is Github centralisation a risk?
01:05:27 Activation methods
01:28:30 Improving Bitcoin development and visibility/perception of development
01:49:35 Audience questions

Notes & Resources:

Bitcoincore.org
Bitcoin Github Repo
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
Contributing to Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin: A Work in Progress
Bitcoin, Explained

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-25/

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I'm joined by guests Casey Rodarmor and Rijndael, to discuss Ordinals & Inscriptions.

Discussion Topics:

Coming soon...

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-24/

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I'm joined by guests James O'Beirne, Rijndael, Antoine Poinsot and Ben Carman to discuss OP_VAULT for Bitcoin covenants.

Discussion Topics:

00:03:40 Overview of OP_VAULT
00:10:34 Practical examples of OP_VAULT
00:14:44 Anchors and fee management mechanisms
00:17:05 Fee management
00:20:37 Generating addresses
00:23:44 Use cases for OP_VAULT
00:26:29 Key management
00:31:56 Inheritance planning
00:33:35 Simplicity vs complexity
00:38:42 OP_VAULT practical applications
00:44:34 Covenants and discreet log contracts
00:57:44 OP_VAULT benefits
01:05:31 Criticisms and risks
01:09:27 Watchtowers and handling blockchain information
01:12:35 Fungability concerns
01:18:46 Drivechains & CTV
01:21:34 Unforseen consequences (ordinals)
01:23:03 Activating OP_VAULT
01:42:15 Chain ossification
01:43:23 Bitcoin vs gold - attack vectors
01:51:37 Further reading

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-23/

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I'm joined by guests Matt Odell & BentheCarman to go through the list.

Timecodes coming soon).

Housekeeping

00:01:04 Bountsr.org
00:01:15 Special secret announcement: Q1

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:13:54 Sparrow v1.7.2
00:15:03 BTC Pay Server v1.7.5 - v1.7.6
00:16:57 Blixt 0.6.3
00:17:03 BISQ 1.9.9
00:17:31 Keet Mobile Alpha is Now Live
00:19:17 Blockstream Jade 0.1.42
00:19:30 Electrum Personal Server v0.2.4
00:20:11 Electrum 4.3.4
00:21:00 Specter v1.14.5
00:22:43 Liana 0.2rc1
00:23:51 Zeus v0.7.2
00:25:52 Nunchuk Android v1.9.24
00:26:17 Muun 2.7.3
00:26:30 Blockstream Green Android v3.9.2
00:26:39 Breez 0.15 http Sync
00:27:10 Hexa Wallet v2.1.3
00:27:37 BDK v0.27.0-rc.1
00:28:46 Mutiny Wallet
00:32:12 nix-bitcoin-0.0.86
00:32:34 MyNode v0.3.09
00:32:55 Joinmarket v0.9.9
00:33:46 Nostr
00:35:09 Cashu
00:35:28 Fedipool
00:38:38 Alby v1.25.1
00:40:32 The Bitcoin Company v1.25
00:41:14 Keeper v1.0.0

Project spotlight

00:41:51 Brainbow
00:42:23 HuntingSats
00:42:42 SATurn
00:43:22 DIY offline coin exchanger, EUR to BTC

Boosts

00:43:37 Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @apemithrandir, @marcellus, @hgw39, Jade Ox & @utxo_one.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

00:45:25 Serverless payjoin proposal [236]
Bitcoin Core #26471 [236]
00:45:42 Ephemeral anchors compared to SIGHASH_GROUP [235]
Request for proof that an async payment was accepted [235]
00:46:28 Wallet Labels Export Format merged [235]
00:45:50 Proposal for new vault-specific opcodes [234]
00:45:58 Kraken announces sending to taproot addresses [234]
00:46:02 Whirlpool coinjoin rust client library announced [234]
00:46:06 Ledger supports miniscript [234]

News & Noteworthy

00:47:23 Cash App adopts free and instant bitcoin payments
00:49:24 Fiatjaf Tweet
00:51:59 Congress' FTX Problem
00:52:15 Blockstream Raises USD $125M to Expand Mining Operations
00:52:29 Fold launches enterprise rewards API
00:53:05 Lightning is live with Clover.
00:53:50 Bitcoin-based app Strike expands in Philippines
00:56:13 BTC Pay Server Vulnerability disclosure
00:57:11 Introducing Watch Swaps
00:58:03 BitMex Ordinals Data
00:58:41 Breez temporarily removed from app store
00:59:16 Dubai Prohibits Privacy Coins
00:59:29 Berlin and Nigeria Lightning Conferences Cancelled
00:59:39 Nostrica
01:00:41 The Power of Lightning Summit 2023
01:01:36 Laanwj: Of regrets
01:04:13 Opensats

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-22/

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I'm joined by guests Harry Sudock, Aaron Vanwerdom and Adam Gibson to discuss the power dynamics in Bitcoin.

Discussion Topics:

00:02:41 The Mexican stand off conceptualisation of the power dynamics within Bitcoin
00:04:19 Are developers part of the game theory?
00:21:57 The power dynamics involved in changing Bitcoin
00:33:39 The role of prediction markets in determining consensus
00:43:01 Can Bitcoin development be corrupted?
00:46:26 Corruption factors invovled in chain forks
00:53:39 Bitcoin's resistance to change
00:57:12 Bitcoin vs gold and considerations surrounding resistance to human interference
01:03:19 Perspectives on changing Bitcoin
01:04:41 Controversial changes (Tapscript)
01:07:16 What properties of Bitcoin are changeable?
01:15:18 How do you defin the "true" Bitcoin?
01:23:53 Forking as means of achieving market consensus
01:27:14 Politcs and getting buy-in for controversial changes
01:32:40 Why change Bitcoin?
01:34:55 Historic examples of contentious changes
01:38:11 Contextualising developer influence on Bitcoin
01:41:05 Contentious non-consensus changes (RBF)
01:45:12 Game theory involved in conflicts between users and miners
01:55:53 Mitigating against short term incentives with long term risks
01:59:39 Bitcoin: There is no alternative
02:01:55 Off-chain considerations

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-21/

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I'm joined by guests Sjors Provoost, Mike Schmidt, Evan Kaloudis & Justin Moon to go through the list.

(Timecodes coming soon.)

Housekeeping

Understanding The Coldcard Mk4 Security Model
Breez SATSCARD Integration Bounty
BDK issue about integrating SATSCARD & TAPSIGNER
Check out the hugely popular Nostr episode

Software Releases & Project Updates

Nunchuk Introduces the Honey Badger Wallet
Electrum 4.3.3
HWI 2.2.0
Mercury Wallet 0.8.6
HEXA v2.1.1
libwally-swift v0.0.8
LNbits 0.9.5.1: Fusion44
Fountain 0.6
ZEBEDEE Revamped
BDK 0.26.0
Stacker News
Zeus v0.7.1
Muun 2.7.1
LDK v0.0.113
Eclair v0.8.0
BRB.io
Alby
Fedi
Damus

Project spotlight

Nosotros - NOSTR mobile client
Fun, simple coinjoin explorer from supertestnet
Krux: An an open-source, airgapped bitcoin hardware wallet

Boosts

01:07:23 Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @apemithrandir, @geneeverett, @hightraverse, @erik99, @petar, @georgeorwell, @deusdenton, @maxawebster, @merryoscar, @Orchid Cow

News & Noteworthy

Microstrategy Adds 2,500 Bitcoin To Holdings Despite Tax-loss Harvesting
Microstrategy To Launch Bitcoin Lightning Solutions In 2023
Fiji’s New Pro-bitcoin Prime Minister Ponders Legal Tender Bill
LQwD Fintech Releases Version 2 of its Bitcoin Lightning Network Platform
Orange Pill App added lightning payments to its web app
PlebLab launched PlebDev
Major Ukrainian Pharmacy Chain Enables Bitcoin Payments
Coinbase reaches $100 million settlement with New York regulator
Hashrate Index 2022 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review
Several Canadian provinces target bitcoin miners
91% Of Cryptos From 2014 Have Died, While Bitcoin Continues To Thrive
El Salvador’s Legislature Approves Landmark Digital Securities Bill
Samsung Bitcoin ETF Launches in Hong Kong
One Of America’s Largest Hemp Processors Makes Entry Into Sustainable Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin Mining Is Proving To Be A Lifeline For Africa’s Oldest National Park

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

[232] Bitcoin Knots signing key compromised
[232] Software forks of Bitcoin Core
[233] Non-interactive LN channel open commitments

Events

For a full list of events, visit bitcoinevents.org.

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-20/

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We held an impromptu Twitter spaces on Proof of Keys day to discuss Bitcoin self custody. I was joined by guests including Justine Harper, Jameson Lopp, Dee, Craig Raw, Lazy Ninja and Rijndael among others, to discuss all things Bitcoin self custody - from noob to self custody guru!

Discussion Topics:

Coming soon...

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-19/

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I'm joined by guests Jack Dorsey, Fiatjaf and William Casarin to discuss Nostr 🤙

Discussion Topics:

00:01:56 What is Nostr?
00:03:24 State of development for Nostr
00:04:16 What attracted Jack to Nostr?
00:06:11 NVKs initial thoughts on Nostr
00:07:03 Nostr versus "competitors"
00:13:42 The simplicity of the Nostr protocol
00:18:00 How does Nostr work?
00:21:19 NIPs and maintaining Nostr
00:22:50 What is Nostr seeking to solve?
00:32:21 Nostr relationship with Bitcoin
00:43:10 Nostr use cases
01:11:14 Key management
01:17:16 Cryptography and encryption
01:19:40 Exploring unique use cases
01:24:12 Experimenting with new technology
01:25:17 Simplicity of Nostr and scaling applications
01:28:01 Micro apps and realising creative concpets
01:34:03 Scaling up and censorship resistance
01:40:03 How does Nostr win?
01:56:57 Final thoughts and what people can do to help Nostr

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Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-18/

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I'm joined by guests Jeff Vandrew Jr, Jared Pierce, Peter Dunworth and AmandaNotFun to discuss estate concerns relating to Bitcoin.

Discussion Topics:

Coming soon

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-17/

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I'm joined by guests Stephan Livera, Michael Folkson & Wiz to go through the list.

(Timecodes coming soon...)

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-16/

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I'm joined by guests Calle, Roy, Rijndael & t-bast to discuss Bitcoin lightning.

Discussion Topics

00:04:08 Lightning implementations
00:11:04 LN URL
00:14:45 Protocols and different implementations
00:19:10 Wallet interaction with base chain
00:25:41 Splicing
00:34:26:06 Cost of liquidity and opening/closing channels
00:39:07 Monetization
00:49:12 Compatability and LSPs
00:56:08 Incentives to monopolize
01:04:43 Attacks on lightning
01:10:20 Cashu & eCash
01:41:42 Competing L2s and alternative lightning networks
01:44:19 Security

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-15/

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I'm joined by guests Checkmate, Permabull Nino & TXMC Trades to discuss on-chain economics.

Discussion Topics

00:02:59 Overview of on-chain economics
00:06:44 Deciphering coin ownership
00:08:56 Calculating profit/loss for coins
00:13:33 Fees and the fee market
00:15:24 Bitcoin & shitcoin analytics
00:16:19 Analysing the bull market
00:28:10 Proof of reserves
00:29:00 Market manipulation
00:31:32 Surviving the market
00:32:30 Stablecoins
00:38:50 Hedge fund strategy & risk of rugpull
00:45:05 Institutional use of chain analysis
00:50:05 Manipulating and obscuring chain analysis
00:56:05 Proof of reserves
01:04:29 Regulatory risks
01:05:41 Concentration of coins
01:06:19 Security budgets
01:07:48 Efficiency and UTXO management
01:09:11 Inflation security budgets and supply schedule
01:11:38 Spent coins/lost coins
01:16:16 Audience question (market dominance vs realised cap/total market cap)
01:21:38 Market outlook
01:25:24 Audience question (bitcoin correlation with traditional markets)
01:28:00 Move to self custody
01:29:02 Spot premium
01:29:51 Currency debasement
01:35:26 How do you put a price on bitcoin?
01:38:57 Evolution of the bitcoin paradigm
01:41:29 The end of fiat money
01:46:14 The death of gold
01:50:09 Off-chain transactions
01:54:57 Market narratives

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/12/09/Episode_14.html

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I'm joined by guests Steve Barbour & Harry Sudock to discuss Bitcoin Mining.

Discussion Topics

00:03:42 The service miners provide
00:05:01 Current state of mining profitability
00:07:58 Mining supply chain issues
00:13:18 Profit and loss in the mining industry
00:17:05 Financing in the mining industry
00:29:07 Risk management in the mining industry
00:33:49 Fiat games, leverage, fractional reserves & rehypothecation
00:46:44 Cooling technology
00:55:15 Higherarchy of needs in mining hardware
00:56:41 PSU cost efficiency
01:00:55 Voltage dynamics in mining
01:03:11 ASICS and ASIC manufacturers
01:10:55 Geopolitical concerns and state actors
01:22:57 Is Tesla a shitcoin?
01:24:04 The evolution of the Bitcoin mining paradigm
01:29:25 Sustaining attacks on mining
01:31:54 Energy sources
01:37:27 Creative miner energy use ideas
01:40:51 Base layer, 2nd layers and custodians
01:42:57 Attack vectors
01:47:19 RBF controversy

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/12/09/Episode_13.html

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I'm joined by guests BentheCarmen & Bitcoin Gandalf.

Housekeeping

00:01:55 BinaryWatch is live! Follow the bot.
00:08:36 V4V (We're converts!)
00:09:26 Coinkite updates

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:10:20 Bitcoin Core version 24.0
00:26:59 Sparrow 1.7.1
00:28:56 Libwally Swift v0.0.7
00:30:11 BTC Pay Server 1.7.0
00:31:48 Fully Noded: The #nostrnode Tesftflight
00:32:09 lnd v0.15.5-beta
00:33:50 Core Lightning v22.11
00:46:11 BlueWallet LDK
00:46:29 eclair-v0.8.0
00:48:25 The Mempool Open Source Project™ v2.4.0
00:51:30 The Bitcoin Company adds support for on-chain payments
00:53:30 LiquidOps beta release
00:53:45 BDK 0.25.0

Project spotlight

00:54:57 SatsCrap
00:57:11 Hoseki Proof of Reserves
00:58:18 Satimoto
00:59:03 smartino
00:59:53 Mutiny Wallet
01:02:02 Wavlake

Boosts

01:02:28 Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters petar, vake, apemithrandir, adamcurry, pablof7z, yaeloss, ahanniga, nomadjoe & wolfbearclaw.

Noteworthy

01:05:16 Benthecarmen got a lightning node running inside a phone's browser
01:05:40 Bahamas regulator confirms FTX asset seizure after hack accusation
01:09:26 Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals Web of Loans Across Silbert Empire
01:14:24 Questions over El Salvador Bitcoin transparency
01:16:01 Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February
01:16:07 Casa Supports Ethereum
01:22:52 Coinbase delists BCH, ETC, XLM & XRP
01:26:07 Blockstream launches bol2
01:27:52 Kids in El Salvador turning coins into sats
01:29:35 200,000 Bitcoin removed from exchanges in the last 30 days
01:29:54 Strike offers cross-border payments to Africans in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya
01:30:09 New Communication Protocol “Ibex” and Extended Protocol Suite
01:31:40 Chat GPT

Audience Questions

01:36:04 M0rry
01:39:27 STACK TO THE FUTURE
01:40:13 M0rry

Shoutouts

01:42:38 Phoenix

Competitions

Legends of Lightning (Winner: LightSats, Runners Up: Mutiny & Saving Satoshi)

Events

01:43:01 Upcoming Events

Episode submission ideas

We're looking for ideas for interesting panel conversations. To send Bitcoin related questions, just go to bitcoin.review and click submit story at the top right.

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/12/06/Episode_13.html

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I'm joined by guests Adam Curry, Oscar Merry, Gigi & Odell to discuss podcasting 2.0.

Discussion Topics00:02:39 What is value for value?

00:14:02 Monetizing content

00:18:56 Micropayments

00:23:07 Earning a living with podcasting 2.0

00:29:07 Value signal vs attention signal

00:31:26 Ads, no ads, and hybrid models

00:39:41 Onboarding

00:50:05 Permissionless nature of podcasting 2.0

00:52:30 Sponsorship and patronage

01:00:43 Monetization strategies

01:09:17 Driving adoption

01:22:51 Open standards in podcasting 2.0

01:28:30 Upcoming feature: the remote item tag

01:33:28 Transparency and statistics

01:36:03 Boost bot and the podcaster API

01:37:54 Challenges with LN and micropayments

01:40:42 Driving education

01:46:49 Audience questions

01:47:29 Podcasting 2.0 apps

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/11/23/Episode-11.html

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I'm joined by Shinobi, Checkmate & Odell to read the list.

Housekeeping

00:03:42 Submit your deals to BitcoinBlackFriday.org
00:04:32 Glassnode data added to BitcoinTreasuries.net

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:05:24 You can now create an account on BitcoinTreasuries.net and start contributing data
00:05:47 BinaryWatch.org
00:11:56 Electrs 0.9.10
00:12:36 LND v0.15.4-beta: Hotfix Release to Fix Chain Sync Bug
00:15:39 Blixt
00:18:06 Nunchuk Android 1.9.20
00:21:41 Sparrow 1.7.1
00:23:30 Strike supports sending to Bech32m addresses
00:23:43 Specter DIY v1.8.0
00:25:02 Trezor v22.9.3
00:25:17 Fully Noded v0.2.30
00:26:31 Wallet of Satoshi 1.18.1
00:27:50 Robosats v0.3.0-alpha
00:29:01 Alby v1.19.0

Noteworthy

00:35:45 Dylan LeClair Tweet re: @chainalysis failures
00:59:56 Geyser.fund - Lightning-native crowdfunding and grants for Bitcoin creators
01:01:48 Santander imposes limits on UK crypto exchange transactions
01:01:56 CashApp Sold $1.76B Worth of Bitcoin During Q3 2022: Down 3% Year Over Year
01:04:51 Using LNsploit to Steal from LND nodes
01:06:07 LNLink
01:06:20 U.S. Attorney $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure
01:16:50 Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Digital Completes Debt Restructuring
01:24:04 Orange Pill App
01:25:24 Ledn discloses a lending relationship with Alameda
01:33:41 BitMEX Proof of Reserves
01:37:05 Gemini Earn Liquidity Issues
01:40:42 Apollosats
01:40:56 Cool Bitcoin projects Twitter thread

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:41:36 Continued discussion about enabling full-RBF

Audience Questions

01:50:14 Fambatecusa in Bitcoin.Review Podcast Telegram

Competitions

01:53:05 Legends of Lightning

Events

01:53:15 Upcoming Events

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/11/21/Episode_10.html

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I'm joined by Stephan Livera & Matt Odell to read the list.

Housekeeping

00:02:14 Submit your deals to BitcoinBlackFriday.org
00:02:32 Great UX/UI Roundtable Episode just released
00:02:55 Bitcoin.Review no longer getting re-released on Citadel Dispatch feed. Grateful to our repeat guest Odell for giving it the visibility!

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:04:38 Specter DIY 1.8.0
00:05:49 Nunchuk 1.9.15
00:11:34 Wasabi Wallet v2.0.2
00:16:32 Sparrow 1.7.0
00:28:33 lnd v0.15.3-beta
00:56:33 Echo v0.0.1
01:01:55 Impervious Browser
01:03:20 Alby v1.18.0
01:10:13 Fully Noded v0.4.0
01:10:53 Keet now supports Bitcoin
01:11:53 You can now receive bitcoin instantly via the Lightning Network in Cash app

Noteworthy

01:15:58 Coinkite Branded Cards
01:16:23 Bitcoin Ekasi Launches Financial Education Center in Mossel Bay, South Africa
01:17:08 Research: Validity Rollups on Bitcoin
1:20:33 Base58.info Bitcoin protocol school
01:21:04 Cashu: Bitcoin Lightning Chaumian Ecash wallet and mint
01:23:45 Synonym & Slashtags: Software and services that enable a new peer-to-peer economy and society
01:29:56 Coinbase-Backed Anti-Money Laundering Group Expands Into Europe
01:32:33 LN Analytics Company 'Amboss' Launches Controversial Data Sharing Feature
01:36:42 Kollider Launches Lightning-Native Exchange, Synthetic Stablecoins, and Wallet
01:38:23 Chinese Spies Used Wasabi Wallet Mixer to Pay Bitcoin Bribes to FBI Double Agent
01:40:43 Coin Center Suing OFAC Over Tornado Cash Sanction
01:41:01 Liquid federation affected by LND bug
01:43:14 Public miners’ share of Bitcoin hashrate skyrocketing
01:44:37 World's Largest Bitcoin Mining Firm 'Core Scientific' Solvency Risk
01:44:53 Bitcoin Mining Revenues Evaporated over the Past Months
01:45:13 Hodlonaut Defeats Craig Wright In Norwegian Court Case
01:47:21 Biden Administration Wants To Make It Easier To Seize Bitcoin Without Criminal Charges
01:48:56 Bitcoin Mining Council announced the findings of its third quarter 2022 (“Q3”) survey
01:52:18 Block: How we design our hardware

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:51:37 Transaction replacement option
01:51:52 Validity rollups research
01:51:57 NBD Open source initiative from ZEBEDEE
01:52:03 Cashu launches with Lightning support
01:52:08 Address explorer Spiral launches
01:52:13 ZeroSync launches

Competitions

01:54:07 Legends of Lightning online global tournament for makers to learn, connect, collaborate, and build innovative applications and tools with bitcoin and lightning

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A conversation with designers.

I'm joined by guests:

Mo (https://twitter.com/MogashniR)

Stephen Delorme (https://twitter.com/StephenDeLorme)

Pedro (https://twitter.com/@pedromvpg)

Matt Odell (https://twitter.com/odell)

Discussion Topics00:04:32 Bitcoin UX Hurdles

00:15:22 Onboarding noobs

00:28:36 QR vs NFC

00:33:54 Creating products for specific markets

00:43:01 User testing

00:46:07 Funding and building collaboratively

01:03:40 Identifying issues and user feedback

01:14:26 Simplicity vs complexity

01:45:21 Terminology

Links & Contacts:

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I'm joined by guests Stephan Livera, Pierre Rochard, Justin Moon & Odell.

Coinkite Housekeeping

01:18:03 Bitcoin Black Friday asking for product/services submissions
01:43:00 Asking for Podcast topics for a panel like the Wallet episode
01:52:00 [BitcoinBinary.org] bot not working well, looking for volunteers

Software Releases & Project Updates

00:03:33 Fully Noded v0.3.4/v0.3.5 - Sep 29, 2022
00:05:10 Specter Desktop v1.13.0 - Sep 22, 2022
00:07:04 Nunchuk 1.9.14 - Sep 27, 2022
00:13:29 Electrum 4.3.2 - (Sep 26, 2022)
00:20:02 Fountain 0.5.1 - Sep 30, 2022
00:24:38 Robosats v0.2.1-alpha - Sep 30, 2022
00:25:18 COLDCARD 5.0.7 - Oct 05, 2022
00:26:53 EmbassyOS v0.3.2 - Oct 05, 2022
00:36:12 Blockstream Green QT 1.1.4 - Oct 05, 2022
00:38:59 lnd v0.15.2-beta - Oct 10, 2022
00:49:19 Samurai v0.99.98f

Noteworthy

00:50:42 Jam: a modern interface for JoinMarket
00:53:33 BitcoinTreasuries.NET
00:55:50 Stratum V2 reference implementation (SRI) available for pilot testing.
01:01:23 Pleb creates a 2 of 3 multi-sig, air-gapped Vault with COLDCARD, Ledger & TAPSIGNER using Keeper
01:09:12 Peach - P2P Mobile application that connects Bitcoin Buyers & Sellers
01:12:27 Celsius Disclosed Names and Transaction History of All Users During Bankruptcy
01:25:13 Alby - The Bitcoin Lightning App for your Browser
01:31:07 Arrested Tornado Cash developer to stay in jail after appeal rejected
01:38:26 Grayscale unveils bitcoin mining-centered investment entity
01:38:42 European Union Announces New Sanctions Against Russia Including a "Ban" on All Russian Bitcoin Wallets
01:43:07 bitnob launches in Kenya
01:44:45 Swan Acquires Specter Solutions
01:47:49 Block's Decentralized Exchange Protocol Team 'TBD' Partners with Circle
01:48:20 BitGo Unveils Custodial Lightning
01:48:52 River Lightning Services
01:52:06 Bitcoin mining hosting company Compute North files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter

01:53:56 Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft forks on signet (#219)

Competitions

01:55:14 [Bitcoin Design Community Designathon
01:56:59 [Legends of Lightning]

Events

01:58:31 Adopting Bitcoin
01:58:39 Africa Bitcoin Conference
01:58:49 Unconfiscatable
01:59:15 Plan B Lungano
01:59:22 Pacific Bitcoin
01:59:27 Bitcoin for India

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I'm joined by guests Matt Odell, Bitstein & Pierre Rochard.

Software Releases and Project Updates

00:01:41 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.7 - Sep 9, 2022 (bit.ly/3BClP0f)

00:05:56 Core Lightning v0.12.0 - Aug 24, 2022 (bit.ly/3S5lr1m) * 00:12:43 Blockclock 1.2.0 - Sep 15, 2022 (bit.ly/3BxSILG) * 00:13:34 Spectre desktop v1.12.0 - Aug 26, 2022 (bit.ly/3qSWBWK) * 00:16:28 Joinmarket v0.9.7 - Aug 28, 2022 (bit.ly/3qWoH3f) * 00:17:50 NPM package for SeedXOR. (bit.ly/3C8BOFb) * 00:25:56 RoboSats on Umbrel (bit.ly/3fcjDFa) * 00:27:19 Ledger adding miniscript (bit.ly/3UmX4xX) * 00:29:16 Trezor & Wasabi Join Forces To Make Bitcoin More Private (bit.ly/3BXXJOV) * 00:30:03 Fulcrum added to bitcoinbinary (bit.ly/3DK4xBc) * 00:37:51 btcd v0.23.1-beta, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3Urjwpv) * 00:38:04 Zeus v0.6.6, Aug 26 2022 (bit.ly/3f9vpjD) * 00:39:24 Nunchuk implements bip21, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3BZWG14) * 00:39:57 BISQ v1.9.5, Aug 22 2022 (bit.ly/3LyPrR5) * 00:41:01 Fountain Podcasts v0.4.8 (bit.ly/3f1ZTnH) * 01:33:44 ATEC608A NRND (bit.ly/3xGWmBZ) * 01:39:26 ETH merge (bit.ly/3SlgfWR) * 01:51:21 Spiral - Private info retrieval block explorer (bit.ly/3BDto70) * 01:56:03 US Treasury OFAC Releases Clarifications on Tornado Cash Sanctions (bit.ly/3S1PEyl) * 01:57:05 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format (bit.ly/3Sj5c17) * 02:00:51 STARK - Zero knowledge bitcoin blockchain state prover (bit.ly/3C0oT8b) * 02:03:09 Mullvad VPN hardware device (bit.ly/3f9LV3p)

Noteworthy

00:53:47 BIPBounty: Tax Deductible Bitcoin Bug Bounties (bit.ly/3LMxP4l)
00:59:34 Fedimint grant season (bit.ly/3S32zjP)
01:00:00 Tether Holds Firm on Decision Not To Freeze Tornado Cash Addresses (bit.ly/3UwFgAg)
01:01:04 New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project “in Wolf’s Clothing” (bit.ly/3xHo1Ti)
01:01:49 Tadge Dryja joins Lightspark (https://bit.ly/3SoAZNG)
01:11:26 Shoutout, no bullshit bitcoin - (bit.ly/3DEqB05)
01:12:22 LN Explorer (bit.ly/3xIYF7k)
01:16:34 Ledger wallets now available at Best Buy (bit.ly/3BA10mr)

Bitcoin OpTech Newsletter:

01:24:13 Bitcoin Core #23202 extends the psbtbumpfee RPC
01:25:08 Eclair #2387 adds support for fee bumping and signet
01:25:27 LDK #1652 updates support for onion messages w/ ability to send reply paths and decode them when received
01:25:36 HWI #627 adds support for P2TR keypath spends using the BitBox02 hardware signing device
01:33:22 BDK begins verifying both ECDSA and schnorr signatures immediately after the wallet creates them

02:18:00 Events:

OsloPlebs
Austin Bitcoin Design Club
BitBlockBoom
Baltic Honeybadger
BTCAzores
Bitcoin Amsterdam
The Bitcoin Collective
Atlanta Bitcoin Conf
Adopting Bitcoin
Unconfiscatable
Africa Bitcoin Conf

Links & Contacts:

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/07/27/Episode-06.html

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A conversation with wallet makers and researchers.

I'm joined by guests:

Ledger CTO, Charles Guillemet (@P3b7_)

Independent security researcher, Lazy Ninja (@FreedomIsntSafe)

Sparrow lead dev, Craig Raw (@craigraw)

Privacy enthusiast and podcaster, Matt Odell (@odell)

Discussion Topics:

00:02:37 UX challenges
45:22 Support requests
01:03:12 Noob vs advanced user features
01:06:42 Most common attack vectors
01:11:32 Backup and seeds
01:12:29 Seedless multisig setups
01:21:49 Single sig passphrases
01:26:30 Security tradeoffs and considerations
01:31:41 Air gapped PC vs hardware wallets
01:40:28 SD card vs USB connection
01:48:26 BIPs and standards
01:49:16 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format
01:58:146 The BIP process
02:03:42 TAPSGINER design and security tradeoffs
02:19:25 Squares new hardware wallet
02:40:00 Defending against government attacks

Links & Contacts:

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I'm joined again by guests Justin Moon and Matt Odell to help me read the list.

Software Releases and Project Updates

00:02:35 Sparrow 1.6.6, Aug 4 2022 (https://bit.ly/3dTsiMm)
00:03:20 JoininBox v0.7.0, Aug 7 2022 (https://bit.ly/3CyCfct)
00:08:27 Electrum 4.3.0, August 5, 2022 (https://bit.ly/3CtJF0w)
00:20:30 Nunchuck iOS 1.9.12 / Android 1.9.18
00:21:50 Blockstream Green 3.8.6 00:36:14
Embassy OS 0.3.1.1, July 27 2022 (https://bit.ly/3wyOPoh)
00:39:21 Raspiblitz 1.8.0, July 29 2022 (https://bit.ly/2No2V3W)
00:40:38 BDK #645 adds a way to specify which taproot spend paths to sign for. (https://bit.ly/3PQ5rOS)
00:44:42 Kotlin Multiplatform Tor (a.k.a. kmp-tor) 0.4.7.8+1.3.0

Noteworthy

00:45:04 New self custody redundancy service (http://www.s33dbank.com)
00:51:15 Foundry provides Grant to Open Source Stratum V2 Developer
00:55:33 Nix-Bitcoin 0.0.74 released (https://bit.ly/3AjiGSG).
00:59:59 SigningDevices.com
01:01:39 Tornado Cash Github Repo Taken Down, Lead Dev's Account Frozen.
01:10:59 Swan email provider data leak & Casa discloses data breach
01:21:19 ETH vs BTC differences in capturable attack surface
01:25:08 Open Sats launches legal defence fund, which aims to defend open-source Bitcoin contributors from lawsuits (https://defendingbtc.com)
01:32:30 Replicant: Reproducing a Fault Injection Attack on the Trezor One. (https://bit.ly/3ThLbsG)
01:39:11 Square Hardware Wallet. (https://bit.ly/3wsHN4i)
01:42:38 A new way to do DLCs - Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments. (https://bit.ly/3Auh5t8)
01:47:08 BIP Proposal: Receiving and Change Derivation Paths in a Single Descriptor. (https://bit.ly/3QPAvQ6)
01:48:08 Taproot Adoption (https://bit.ly/3Td8SCf)

Tech Tip of the Day:

01:49:04 Have Tor always running on the mac using brew
01:51:45 MacOS key repeat
01:52:43 Hosted VPN Using Lightning with Mullvad (https://bit.ly/3PHOmXj)
01:53:33 Matt's suggestions for throwaway phone providers. (textverified.com, silent.link, mysudo.com, hushed.com)

Links & Contacts:

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This week for Episode 3, our guests Justin Moon and Matt Odell return to help me read the list. I should mention the overwhelming feedback is that we have failed at being boring, so we should try to do better. This week for Episode 3, our guests Justin Moon (https://twitter.com/_JustinMoon_) and Matt Odell (https://twitter.com/ODELL) return to help me read the list.

To send Bitcoin related questions, just go to bitcoin.review and click submit story at the top right.

Vulnerability Disclosures:

01:36 Twitter data breach
05:55 ActiveCampaign database leak
09:49 BlueWallet tx data vulnerability

Software Releases & Project Updates:

10:42 Nunchuk 1.9.9 17:59 BDK (https://apple.co/3QRxnn5)
12:19 Nunchuk CKTAP C++ lib (https://bit.ly/3coVMBi)
17:59 BDK 0.20.0 (https://bit.ly/3CzTpGj)
21:45 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.5
27:06 Robinhood supports bech32
28:26 Seed Tool v2 by SuperPhatArrow
32:33 Tor Browser v11.5
37:28 Joinstr: Coinjoin implementation using nostr
39:36 Bitcoinbinary.org bot

Noteworthy:

40:30 Fedi update about funding (https://bit.ly/3KqDoV2)
50:04 TAPSIGNER now shipping (https://bit.ly/3KnPL4h)
01:02:06 Sphinx announces VLS signing device (https://bit.ly/3CzUuxX)
01:04:55 Border Wallet (https://bit.ly/3Cr9cHC)
01:07:59 Keet p2p comms by Bitfinex and Tether (https://bit.ly/3cgTa8r)
01:14:16 James O’Beirne summarizing mempool research (https://bit.ly/3Km1Irj)
01:23:00 Bitcoin Core updates
01:27:47 BitcoinTreasuries Updated with Elons booboo (https://bit.ly/3pPIZuW)
01:32:18 Bitcoin Meshnets article by L0LA L33TZ (https://bit.ly/3QUWl52)
01:40:08 Gloria Zhao Added as a Bitcoin Core Maintainer
01:44:04 Bitcoin OpTech News Letter

Hiring:

01:46:30 Fedi hiring a mobile dev (https://bit.ly/3Rg6r03)
01:46:35 Coinkite hiring a Python/Kivi unicorn mobile dev (https://bit.ly/3TjGBKk)
01:46:52 BitcoinerJobs.com

Events:

01:47:24 Bitcoin Park Nashville Events
01:49:12 TAB Conf (tabconf.com)
01:50:14 BitBlockBoom (https://bit.ly/2wQwF4N)
01:50:32 Baltic Honeybadger (https://bit.ly/3CtBRvH)

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/
Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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I scratched my own itch with Episode 01, so this will keep going as my best efforts place to talk about Bitcoin Project software updates and some other commentary that I find interesting or noteworthy to me. This week I again have Justin Moon (https://twitter.com/_JustinMoon_) and Matt Odell (https://twitter.com/ODELL) helping me read the list.

Software Releases & Project Updates:

01:47 BTC Pay Server 1.6.1 (https://bit.ly/3cpmrxV)
07:45 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.5 & BIP85 Password extension (https://bit.ly/3Kn3OXN)
09:06 Electrum Private Server (https://bit.ly/3AKxGua)
09:25 Coinkite Cards 1.0.2 (SATSCHIP, TAPSIGNER & SATSCARD)
13:44 CK-TAP Protocol 1.0.5 (https://bit.ly/3R7LIvh)
15:46 CK-TAP React Native Library bounty claimed by Hexa wallet team (https://bit.ly/3AOJhs6)
16:36 Zeus 0.6.5 (https://bit.ly/3pIKPxB)
17:40 Blockstream Green QT 1.1.2 (https://bit.ly/3Aq0s1E)
22:13 Sparrow 1.6.5 (https://bit.ly/3wvCd19)
27:02 Blue Wallet 6.3.1 (https://bit.ly/3Q5oJjH)
34:00 Start9 EmbassyOS 0.3.1 (https://bit.ly/3ALwo26)

Noteworthy:

36:04 Overclocking board for the s19 (https://bit.ly/3TsZqLg)
37:38 Nunchuck Tapsigner NFC bitcoin co-signing (https://bit.ly/3AlpfUJ)
38:39 SATSCARD private club authentication and creditless collateral (https://bit.ly/3Tav0Nw)
41:11 Bitcoin Park, Nashville
43:53 LightningNetworkPCB by sulfuroid (https://bit.ly/3AmRJ0b)
44:29 Permissionless one-way pegged #Bitcoin sidechains by Ruben (https://bit.ly/3QPxrmZ)
48:32 Silent Payment (https://bit.ly/3AKzROm)
59:00 Fedimint - Framework for building federated bitcoin applications (https://bit.ly/3AlvjfP)
01:12:12 Liquid Fuji Money (https://bit.ly/3q4meDH)
01:13:52 Unchained trading desk
01:14:54 bitcoin-s merged taproot support (https://bit.ly/3PVQ8nL)
01:15:14 Casa API launch
01:15:38 Hoseki - Bitcoin proof-of-asset
01:22:45 Robosats - A Simple and Private Lightning P2P Exchange (https://bit.ly/3KpROov)

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter:

01:28:54 Half aggregation of BIP340 signatures (https://bit.ly/3KkpjZi)
01:33:50 Long-term block reward funding
01:37:29 Add RPC (-regtest only) for testing package policy
01:XX:XX Taproot fields for PSBT (https://bit.ly/3ALI5G2)
01:41:14 Discourage fee sniping with nLockTime
01:42:39 Largest multisig quorum currently possible? (https://bit.ly/3KoLEow)

Events:

01:46:43 AB/DC Bitcoin design meetup in Austin (https://bit.ly/3Km15hj)

01:48:02 Bitcoin Conference in Amsterdam * 01:50:25 TAB Conf in Atlanta (https://bit.ly/3R6zMK6) * 01:52:14 Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador (https://bit.ly/3wyQ7zA) * 01:52:31 BTCAzores Unconference in the Azores (https://bit.ly/3ANCcrG) * 01:52:44 Baltic Honeybadger in Riga (https://bit.ly/3CtBRvH)

Other updates:

01:53:20 Why CBDCs wont come. Porkopolis Economics by Matthew Mezinskis.

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/
Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/07/27/Episode-02.html

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Scratching my own itch, this is a best efforts place to talk about Bitcoin Project software updates and some other commentary that I find interesting or noteworthy to me. Big thanks to Matt Odell for graciously joining me as my first guest.

To send Bitcoin related questions, just go to bitcoin.review and click submit story at the top right.

Software Releases & Project Updates:

03:28 HWI 2.1.1 07:20 COLDCARD Mk4 Firmware 5.0.4
11:24 COLDCARD Mk3 Firmware 4.1.5
13:00 BTC Pay Server v1.5 15:39 BlueWallet 6.2.18 + 6.2.17
17:49 COLDCORE 0.3.1 21:03 FullyNoded 0.3.3 Apr 5, 2022
29:50 Blockstream Green
33:56 Electrum 4.2.2
38:20 SpecterDesktop 1.10.3
40:55 Sparrow 1.6.3
52:29 Fountain 0.4.0
57:04 Wasabi 2.0

Bitcoin OpTech News Letter (https://bit.ly/3Ap8VSJ):

1:03:58 Replace by Fee
1:05:34 Hertzbleed sidechannel vulnerability
1:09:50 Open Timestamps (OTS)
1:11:14 Zeus 1:12:50 Lightning releases
1:15:15 Notable code and documentation changes

Notable Wallet Updates:

1:15:53 Blixt Wallet 0.5.1
1:16:33 Mercury Wallet

Noteworthy:

1:27:43 SATSCHIP (https://bit.ly/3TgduaL)
1:31:19 BIP 85 Passords
1:32:31 BLOCKCLOCK Micro (https://bit.ly/3R94ZfJ)
1:34:52 BTC Sessions Coldcard Tutorial (https://bit.ly/3pGQHam)
1:35:10 - Coinkite GiftCards (https://bit.ly/3R8U3yS)

Coinkite Updates:

1:27:43 SATSCHIP
1:31:19 BIP 85 passords
1:32:31 BLOCKCLOCK Micro
1:34:52 BTC Sessions Coldcard Tutorial (https://bit.ly/3pGQHam)

Community & Events:

1:35:28 Bitcoin Park

Links & Contacts:

Website: https://bitcoin.review/
Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
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Email: bitcoinreview@coinkite.com

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/2022/07/27/Episode-01.html

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