BR070 - Nunchuk, Bitcoin Core, Push Tx, COLDCARD, BDK, RGB, Kraken Hack, Fedimint DNS Outage, Spending Condition Verification + MORE ft. Schmidty & Rijndael
Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests
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Discussion on a Security Vulnerability in Kraken Exchange
The chapter covers a security vulnerability at Kraken Exchange that led to unauthorized assets worth three million being credited to an attacker's account due to a flaw in the deposit process. It includes insights from security researchers and debates on responsible disclosure.
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I'm joined by guests Mike Schmidt & Rijndael to go through the list.
Housekeeping
- 00:01:10 Check out previous episode on OP_CAT
- 00:02:42 New Hardcase for COLDCARD Q
- 00:02:53 Coinkite looking for a Sales Rep & Social Media Specialist
Vulnerability Disclosures
- 00:04:18 Security researcher leveraged flaw in recent UX on Kraken
- 00:10:08 LockBit Threatens to Leak Fed Data
- 00:10:50 Fedimint DNS issues
- 00:17:08 Bitcoin Core vulnerability disclosure policy discussions report
- 00:21:32 DoS disclosure: LND Onion Bomb
- 00:25:06 BitcoinLink critical vulnerability
- 00:27:40 DISGOMOJI: Linux malware controlled through emojis
- 00:28:11 Physical attack in London
- 00:29:36 Cryptocurrency influencer and three other people kidnapped in Montreal
- 00:30:16 Compromised address: 0.5 bitcoin lost to fees
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:31:40 COLDCARD WIP release
- 00:43:40 bbqr-ffi
- 00:45:31 Nunchuk
- 00:54:30 Bitcoin Core
- 00:57:27 BDK
- 00:59:06 Rust Payjoin
- 00:59:25 Umbrel
- 00:59:28 Bisq
- 00:59:32 WasabiWallet
- 01:00:11 Joinstr
- 01:01:21 Seedhammer
- 01:03:02 Labelbase
- 01:04:47 Blockstream Green
- 01:05:33 Peach
- 01:05:43 ESP-miner
Project Spotlight
- 01:06:40 Brollups
- 01:07:02 Stratum.work
- 01:07:33 Satonomics
- 01:07:45 Volt
- 01:08:11 Mempool Research
- 01:08:59 Moosig
- 01:09:22 SLIP-39 Wallet "Seed" Generation & Backup
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 01:10:42 SimpleX
- 01:10:45 Tails
- 01:11:05 Tor Browser
Project Spotlight
- 01:11:11 OpenCoordinator
- 01:11:23 Librechat
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 01:11:36 Core Lightning
- 01:11:44 LDK
- 01:11:49 Phoenix
- 01:11:50 Mutiny Node
- 01:11:53 RGB
- 01:13:07 Lightning Terminal
- 01:13:10 Ride-The-Lightning
- 01:13:15 minibits-wallet
- 01:13:20 Clams Remote
- 01:13:24 BitBanana
Project Spotlight
- 01:13:30 Storm.pub
- 01:13:39 Ecash by sound
- 01:16:02 Nutmix
- 01:16:07 DotNut
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 01:21:12 rust-nostr
- 01:21:13 Primal
- 01:21:15 Damus
- 01:21:18 Amethyst
- 01:21:19 Coracle
- 01:21:20 nos.social
- 01:21:22 Oxchat
- 01:21:24 Voyage
- 01:21:25 Mostro
- 01:21:26 Citrine
Project Spotlight
- 01:21:29 Notedeck
- 01:21:37 Keypub
- 01:23:00 Relay Runner
- 01:23:04 Nostr Pay
Boosts
- 01:23:56 Shoutout to top boosters @vake, @pippellia, @wotsit, @apemithrandir, @bencoin & @zdoxed
Audience Questions
- 01:25:34 "When we have covenants, is the address type different depending on the spending conditions?"
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
- 01:30:44 Highlights from recent Bitcoin Optech Newsletters
News & Noteworthy
• Bitcoin
- 01:33:46 Grokking Bitcoin is now open-source
• Protocol
- 01:33:52 Bitcoin Core #29325
• Lightning
- 01:34:00 Multicoin app Cake Wallet to integrate Lightning payments
• Business & Finance
- 01:34:09 Blink Wallet Vouchers
- 01:34:13 RobinHood to acquire Bitstamp
• Funding
- 01:34:38 Open Cash Association
- 01:34:42 OpenSats announces support for Calle
- 01:34:48 Brink's grant committee welcomes Cory Fields
- 01:34:55 Invincible Privacy Group
• Mining
- 01:36:36 Wilson Mining announced the opening of its own FPPS
- 01:36:43 Foundry Hardware
- 01:36:48 Bitdeer to acquire Desiweminer
- 01:37:02 Bitmain announces Antminer S21 XP Hydro
- 01:37:15 Marathon Digital Holdings launches 2-megawatt project in Finland
• Privacy
- 01:37:22 Proton transitions to non-profit
- 01:37:26 Nigerian financial institutions to request customers social media handles as part of KYC
• Government & Political
- 01:37:34 Vote postponed for EU regulation Chat Control 2.0
• Events
- 01:37:42 Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town
Reads
• 01:37:51 Top recently published reads:
- The emerging Bitcoin modular ecosystem by Alex Bergeron
- Cashu: a vision for a Bitcoin powered ecash ecosystem by Shinobi
- Mircea Popescu and MPex by Beautyon
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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