September 2023 Topics - Githubissues

MatulefM commented 10 months ago

Credit: No BS Bitcoin
“Mining pools that require miner identity verification now control more than 50% hashrate of the Bitcoin network.”

Credit: Pablo Greco
"The Liquid Federation fulfills a long standing goal to open-source the functionary code, allowing anyone to audit the code and create their own Liquid-like network,"

Credit: Opensats
"Josi will receive long-term support from OpenSats for his continued work on Bitcoin Core," as well as his contributions to the libbitcoinkernel project and BIP-352: Silent Payments

MatulefM commented 10 months ago

Credit: U.S. Department Of The Treasury
"While publicly claiming to offer a technically sophisticated privacy service, Storm and Semenov in fact knew that they were helping hackers and fraudsters conceal the fruits of their crimes. Today’s indictment is a reminder that money laundering through cryptocurrency transactions violates the law, and those who engage in such laundering will face prosecution," - U.S. Attorney Damien Williams.
“If a person, for example, had the ability to move any and all funds locked by that contract then it may be true that said person accepted those funds and was transmitting them on behalf of whoever put those funds into that contract, i.e. said person was a money transmitter. However, if a person merely had the ability to update certain logic relevant to the contract but insufficient to gain control over the funds and transmit the funds at their discretion then said person would not have what FinCEN in the guidance calls “independent control” over the funds being transmitted and would not therefore be a money transmitter. The indictment does not clearly state the manner of the defendant’s control and therefore does not sufficiently allege unlicensed money transmission.” - Peter Van Valkenburgh / Coin Center

Credit: Pavel / Tor Project
"Tor's PoW defense is a dynamic and reactive mechanism, remaining dormant under normal use conditions to ensure a seamless user experience, but when an onion service is under stress, the mechanism will prompt incoming client connections to perform a number of successively more complex operations. The onion service will then prioritize these connections based on the effort level demonstrated by the client."
"We believe that the introduction of a proof-of-work mechanism will disincentivize attackers by making large-scale attacks costly and impractical while giving priority to legitimate traffic."

Credit: supertestnet
"Zaplocker is free and open source software. You can run it yourself to provide users of your service with a lightning address without taking custody of user funds. The zaplocker name as well as the software is fully released into the public domain, with no rights reserved."

MatulefM commented 10 months ago

MatulefM commented 10 months ago

Credit: Nick Farrow
“With FROST, a private collaborative custodian can hold a key to a multisig while remaining unaware of the public key (and wallet) which they help control. By hiding this public key, we solve the issue of existing collaborative custodians who learn of all wallet transactions even if you never use them."
"Further, in the scenario that we do call upon a private collaborative custodian to help sign a transaction, this transaction could be signed blindly. Being blind to the transaction request itself and unknowing of past onchain behavior, these custodians have no practical information to enact censorship requests or non-cooperation. A stark contrast to today's non-private collaborative custodians who could very easily be coerced into not collaborating with users.”

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