July 2023 Topics - Githubissues

Credit: Josie Baker and Ruben Somsen
“This proposal aims to address the limitations of these current approaches by presenting a solution that eliminates the need for interaction, eliminates the need for notifications, and protects both sender and receiver privacy. These benefits come at the cost of requiring wallets to scan the blockchain in order to detect payments. This added requirement is generally feasible for full nodes but poses a challenge for light clients. While it is possible today to implement a privacy-preserving light client at the cost of increased bandwidth, light client support is considered an area of open research”

Credit: No Bullshit Bitcoin
“Damus, a popular Nostr client on iOS, is still being forced to remove zap button from user posts on the App Store, as Apple considers it a way of "selling digital content."

Credit: Evan Kaloudis and Zeus
“Zeus v0.7.6 update has been rejected from Apple's App Store, once again highlighting the issue of Apple's walled garden policies.”
Rejection message: “To resolve this issue, please provide documentary evidence demonstrating you have the necessary licenses and permissions to distribute an app with cryptocurrency exchange features in all the locations where your app is currently available”

Credit: Blockstream
"The Blockstream Satellite network broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain around the world 24/7 for free, protecting against network interruptions and providing areas without reliable internet connections with the opportunity to use Bitcoin."

Credit: Bitcoin Product Community
“Bitcoin Volunteer Opportunity Board for FOSS projects is an initiative by the Bitcoin Product Community. It aims to connect FOSS Bitcoin projects and volunteers.”

Credit: Lindsey Grossman and Noaf Ereiqat of Block
“Bitkey has three keys. One is on users’ cellphones, another is stored on the hexagonal pieces of hardware, and Block holds the final key.”
“We are able to help you recover your wallet and recover both your mobile key through a cloud backup and then also help you get a new piece of hardware and create a new hardware key”

Credit: Binance
"A transaction accelerator is a service that helps speed up the confirmation process of cryptocurrency transactions, especially during network congestion or when a user has set low transaction fees."

Credit: Elias Rohrer / LDK Developers
“LDK Node provides a straightforward interface and an integrated on-chain wallet, enabling users to quickly and easily set up a self-custodial Lightning node. With LDK Node, developers can get a Lightning Node up and running within a day.”

Credit: Nikhilesh De / Coindesk
"In January 2021, PRIME reintroduced specific legacy wallet forwardingaddresses to customers (“Legacy Wallets”). It is understood PRIME did so because oflimitations associated with creating new wallets within the Fireblocks platform. PRIMEpurportedly believed that these legacy wallets existed on the Fireblocks platform or wereconfigured to forward to wallets accessible on the Fireblocks platform."
"However, it is understood that on or about December 2021, PRIME discovered that it was unable to access the Legacy Wallets and the cryptocurrency therein."
"It is understood that from December 2021 to March 2022, to satisfy the withdrawals from the inaccessible Legacy Wallets, PRIME purchased additional digital currency using customer money from its omnibus customer accounts."

Credit: Dan Gould / Payjoindevkit
“PDK is focused on making Payjoin integrations easy, reliable, and making using it foolproof.”

Credit: Greg Sanders
“Greg Sanders posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a description for how the proposed v3 transaction relay rules could allow creating a coinjoin-style multiparty transaction that wouldn’t be vulnerable to transaction pinning.” - Bitcoin Optech

Credit: @bergealex4
It's become difficult to gauge pulse of Bitcoin development amidst all noise in industry. Podcasts, blogs, conference talks, Twitter threads. Information is scattered around & sometimes too technical to provide high-level perspective of how all the various efforts fit together."
"As industry matures, we have an opportunity to galvanize efforts in progress by informing users about impact this work might have on Bitcoin and how they interact with it. A 10,000 foot view of where the ecosystem stands should also inspire new developers to join in on the fun!"

Credit: Elle Mouton
“This post will walk through the different operations of a Lightning channel by following a long-running example with plenty of explanatory diagrams.”

Credit: Jaran Mellerud / Erick Vera
“The United Arab Emirates is the fastest-growing bitcoin mining hub in the Middle East. With its political stability, business friendliness, strong capital markets, and abundant energy resources, the UAE is emerging as the prime destination for bitcoin miners in the Middle East.”

Credit: Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Michael Levin
“Today, we’re excited to announce the release of a new set of developer tools to enable the Lightning and AI developer communities to build global, inclusive, and out-of-the-box cost effective LLM (Large Language Model) tooling which seamlessly incorporates Lightning and bitcoin. These tools are built on the L402 protocol, a Lightning native authentication mechanism, and Langchain, a popular library to simplify working with AI agents by adding external data to allow for more advanced functionality”

ChicagoBitdevs / ChicagoBitdevs.github.io