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Parkes Bush Bash 2025 Meeting Topics #31

Open BBlackwo opened 18 hours ago

BBlackwo commented 18 hours ago

✍️ Link anything you'd like to discuss: news, demos, ideas, whatever!

BBlackwo commented 18 hours ago

Localhost Research Launched to Support Individuals Contributing to Critical Bitcoin Codebases

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/localhost-research-launched-to-support-individuals-contributing-to-critical-bitcoin-codebases/

BBlackwo commented 18 hours ago

Cities Skylines II Traffic Mod had a backdoor to steal secrets from Exodus Wallet and bypassed Antivirus

BBlackwo commented 18 hours ago

Fifth Circuit Lifts Tornado Cash Sanctions

https://www.therage.co/fifth-circuit-lifts-tornado-cash-sanctions/

The fifth circuit particularly appears to take issue with the fact that "because the software continues to operate regardless of the sanctions, and the blockchain technology “allows peer-to-peer transfers . . . without requiring the recipient to consent to transfer,” some users may become liable whenever someone transfers them digital assets via Tornado Cash, even without their knowledge or consent."

"These smart contracts must now be removed from the sanctions list and US persons will once again be allowed to use this privacy-protecting protocol. Put another way, the government’s overreach will not stand," writes Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal on X.

Kermit21Million commented 17 hours ago

Lightning Node Channel Management Best Practices

Discussion on Lightning Node Channel Management and best practices on choosing Node partners, setting fees, balancing channels, software support packages and upcoming improvements to Lightning Node software and enhancements.

btcschellingpt commented 17 hours ago

BIP352 v BIP47 (and variants) aka: Silent Payments v Paynyms

Let's explore the differences between the new and the old BIP352 is brand new with limited support BIP47 has been around for a while

They use different approaches for sharing secrets between participants Both clearly work and each has a different set of trade-offs

Background reading at silentpayments.xyz

btcschellingpt commented 17 hours ago

Growing support for funding bitcoin (and nostr) FOSS projects and developers

How do they work, why are they important and what should we do .. if anything?

https://opensats.org/about https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/bitcoin-development-fund/ https://brink.dev/ https://maelstrom.fund/bitcoin-grant-program/

btcschellingpt commented 17 hours ago

What is the Liquid sidechain?

https://blockstream.com/liquid/ https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/releases?ref=blog.blockstream.com

BBlackwo commented 16 hours ago

Analyzing Bitcoin Consensus: Risks in Protocol Upgrades by Ren Crypto Fish, Steve Lee, and Lyn Alden

https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap/blob/main/bcap_v1.0.pdf

BBlackwo commented 16 hours ago

Bitcoin Fog User Roman Sterlingov Gets 12.5 Years for Allegedly Running It Based on 'Junk Science' 😡

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-fog-user-roman-sterlingov-gets-12-5-years-for-allegedly-running-it-based-on-junk-science/

On a more positive legal note

Samourai Wallet & Tornado Cash Prosecutor Damian Williams to Step Down in December

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-tornado-cash-prosecutor-damian-williams-to-step-down-in-december/

btcschellingpt commented 16 hours ago

Robosats exploring orderbook creation on nostr

Using nostr as a solution component in decentralised system design is super interesting because it may solve a key attack vector because the necessarily shared "view of the world" has previously been centralised. Lots more possibilities for this approach.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/robosats-v0-7-2-alpha/

aphanley commented 4 hours ago

Liana v8.0 Improved Setup Process, New Templates, BitBox02 Support

Liana is a wallet providing support for timelocks and multiple recovery pathways using segwit or taproot miniscript

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/liana-v8-0/