BR040 - Alby, Zeus, Nunchuk, Damus, Mutiny, SATSCARD, App store censorship + MORE ft. Bumi & Mandrik
Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests
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Bitcoin Layer to Initiative Mercury Layer
BTC, Prague Conference partners with FEDI to test short term initiative design explicitly to run during the event. Nicholas Gregory announced a new Bitcoin layer to initiative mercury layer. That's the one we briefly mentioned on the on the update to their wallet. Seems to be also getting a little bit of buzz.
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Episode notes
I'm joined by guests Bumi & Mandrik to go through the list. *CORRECTION* Release notes at 00:19:12 are for Trezor not Ledger.
Housekeeping
- 00:02:24 More NFC card designs
- 00:02:28 Bare chip with flex PCB SATSCHIP in stock in a few days
- 00:02:35 Satscard.com fiat balance display
- 00:02:40 OpenSats looking for applications
Bitcoin
• Security Updates
- 00:03:17 Damus to be removed from app store
- 00:04:22 Zeus rejected by Apple
- 00:06:53 MutinyWallet mainnet
- 00:08:09 Alby PWA in the works?
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:11:05 Bitcoin Core
- 00:11:50 Nunchuk
- 00:14:53 BTC Pay Server
- 00:18:56 Robosats
- 00:19:12 Trezor
- 00:20:28 Seedsigner
- 00:20:58 Bitcoin Keeper
- 00:22:14 MyNode
- 00:22:40 raspiblitz
- 00:24:27 Parmanode
- 00:24:42 electrs
- 00:25:40 Mercury Wallet
- 00:26:15 Blockstream Green Desktop
- 00:26:25 taproot-assets
- 00:27:09 BTC Map Android
- 00:27:20 Orange Pill App
- 00:27:37 Polar
• Project Spotlight:
- 00:28:56 Eclair CLI
- 00:29:10 BTC Warp
- 00:29:42 Musig playground
HAM stuff lunch break
- 00:29:56 FX-4CR radio and src
Lightning
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:31:31 LND
- 00:32:33 Bluewallet
- 00:33:02 Alby
- 00:35:24 Fountain
- 00:35:58 Zeus
- 00:36:45 Wallet of Satoshi
- 00:37:49 Satimoto demo
- 00:38:23 Nutstash
- 00:38:35 Mash LN wallet
- 00:38:50 Bitrefill LN login
• Project Spotlight
- 00:41:47 eNuts
- 00:42:05 Scaling Lightning
- 00:42:13 Walletano
- 00:42:49 BitBanana
Nostr
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:43:53 Zebedee X nostr
Boosts
- 00:44:10 Shoutout to top boosters: @bradmillscan7, @mrmr, @apemithrandir, @vake, @wartimepsycho.
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
- 00:46:07 State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs [252]
- 00:46:22 Proposal for managed joinpool protocol & Transaction relay over Nostr [253]
- 00:47:39 Using MATT to replicate CTV and manage joinpools [254]
- 00:47:46 Discussion about the taproot annex & Draft BIP for silent payments [255]
News & Noteworthy
• Bitcoin
- 00:47:53 Home Servers going mainstream
- 00:48:43 Bitcoin Volunteer Opportunity Board
• Lightning & L2
- 00:48:56 bolt.observer to open source LiquidOps
- 00:49:05 Liquid Swaps by Boltz
- 00:49:14 Six New Liquid Federation Members
- 00:49:27 Swan LN withdrawals in alpha test
- 00:49:33 Blockstream open sources Greenlight client repo
- 00:50:38 BTC Prague X Fedi
- 00:51:13 MercuryLayer Announced
• Privacy
- 00:54:17 Vexl Foundation by SatoshiLabs
• Funding
- 00:56:43 Brink
- 00:57:47 BOL2 VLS grant
• Mining
- 00:57:59 Anti-Bitcoin mining bill is dead
- 00:58:06 Tether Mining Investments
• Business
- 01:01:09 Strike
- 01:01:16 Google Cloud X Voltage
- 01:01:21 Bitkey X Coinbase & Cash App Partnership
• Political
- 01:01:29 SEC Filings
• Other
- 01:01:46 TBD Web5 Verifiable Credentials Toolkit
- 01:01:56 Bitcoin Audible, helmed by popular host Guy Swann, was served with a lawsuit on Friday (Bugled!)
Reads
- 01:03:34 The Signal & the Nonce: Tracing ASIC Fingerprints to Reshape Our Understanding of Bitcoin Mining by Karim Helmy, Lucas Nuzzi, Alex Mead, Kyle Waters, and the Coin Metrics Team
- 01:03:51 Ark AMA with Burak [Stackernews]
- 01:03:56 Securing a $100M Lightning node [Acinq]
- 01:04:19 Explaining Replace By Fee by Nifty
- 01:04:24 Normal operation and closure of a pre-taproot LN channel [ellemouton]
- 01:04:33 Bitcoin address types compared: P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, and more [Unchained]
- 01:04:44 Sparrow Wallet: Ultimate Quick Start Guide For Beginners [Athena]
- 01:04:48 RoboSats Guide [Bitcoiner.Guide]
- 01:04:53 Darkpool: A chaumian blinded ecash like co-op mixing pool for self custodial savings accompanying Mints
- 01:05:07 Beginner friendly guide to Open Source projects [bitcoiner.guide]
- 01:06:01 A collection of resources related to covenants by Robin Linus
Links & Contacts
- Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
- 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-40
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