January 2023 topics

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[bitcoin-dev] Ephemeral Anchors: Fixing V3 Package RBF againstpackage limit pinning

• Credit: Greg Sanders

#LegendsOfLightning 2022 Winners

[Lightning-dev] Factory-Optimized Protocols For Lightning

• Credit: jlspc

[Lightning-dev] Jamming against Channel Jamming

• Credit: Joost Jager

The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act is an opportunistic, unconstitutional assault on cryptocurrency self custody, developers, and node operators

• Credit: Peter Van Valkenburgh / Coin Center
• “The bipartisan Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, introduced today by Sens. Warren and Marshall, is the most direct attack on the personal freedom and privacy of cryptocurrency users and developers we’ve yet seen.”

Jack Dorsey Provides 14 Bitcoin Grant to Open Source Distributed Communication Protocol 'Nostr' with Goal of Censorship Resistant Twitter Replacement

• Credit: No Bullshit Bitcoin
• “Nostr aims to be the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all. It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof.”

HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Awards $325,000 In New Grants

• Credit: BTCCasey / Bitcoin Magazine
• “12 projects across five continents have received $325,000 in funding from the Human Rights Foundation.”

Paul Sztorc Launches 'Layer 2 Labs' Company to Promote and Develop Drivechains Proposal with $3M Seed Funding

• “We need layers, if we want Bitcoin to have privacy, scale, and versatility. At L2L, we will not rest until every use-case is possible with Bitcoin - no user will be turned away.”

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Nunchuk Releases Collaborative Custody Subscription Plans Focused on Inheritance Planning

• “The Honey Badger wallet is a 2-of-4 multisig wallet. he platform holds one key (the "platform key"), while you hold three keys, including a designated inheritance key. This means you are always in control of your wallet and can recover it elsewhere using other tools. The inheritance key is time-locked [*] so that it can only be used to claim your bitcoins on a future date chosen by you. Your beneficiary can use the inheritance key in combination with the platform key to withdraw the inherited bitcoins.”

Fedimint Hackathon: Win Bitcoin for Creating Fedimint Modules, 2.58 Bitcoin in Prizes

• “Win bitcoin for creating Fedimint modules that solve real world problems”

Coinbase Pays $50M to NY Gov and Promises to Surveil Users More

• Credit: No Bullshit Bitcoin / NY Times
• “Coinbase has agreed to pay a $50 million fine after violating anti-money-laundering laws by allowing customers to open accounts without sufficient background checks. The settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services also requires Coinbase to invest $50 million to strengthen its surveillance program.”

New Whirlpool Client Written in Rust: Compatible with BDK Based Wallets

• Credit: No Bullshit Bitcoin / Straylight
• “A Whirlpool client written in Rust brings the promise of more bitcoin wallets supporting the collaborative transaction implementation.”

Luke Dash jr's PGP key compromised and bitcoin stolen

• Over 200 Bitcoin were taken

[Lightning-dev] Swap-in-Potentiam: Moving Onchain Funds "Instantly" To Lightning

• Credit: ZmnSCPxj
• “In this writeup, we present a novel protocol, swap-in-potentiam, that can be used for immediate transfer from the blockchain layer to the Lightning layer”