BR037 - Mempool.space, COLDCARD, Ledger Recover, Cashu +MORE ft. Steve Lee, Future Paul & Livera
Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests
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Apple's Key Management Design
Apple's keychain is being used in new Bitcoin wallets and a cloud backup solution. The company claims to have an HSM that holds keys which can help recover. Is there also a backdoor? "I don't think anyone can say like, yeah, we should all be confident that there's not"
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I'm joined by guests Steve Lee, Future Paul & Stephan Livera, to go through the list.
Housekeeping
- 00:01:44 OpenSats
- 00:05:08 Reproducible builds
Bitcoin
• Security Updates
- 00:06:50 Ledger miniscript vulnerability
- 00:08:12 Ledger Recover
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:23:30 Coldcard Mk4 6.0.0X
- 00:29:28 Liana
- 00:33:55 nunchuk-android
- 00:34:10 Mempool.space
- 00:42:17 electrum
- 00:42:47 Mercury Wallet
- 00:43:30 BlueWallet
- 00:43:57 libwally-core
- 00:44:54 startOS
- 00:45:57 Robosats
- 00:46:31 mycitadel-desktop
- 00:48:31 Blockstream Green Desktop
- 00:48:53 Parmanode
- 00:49:16 Whirlpool
- 00:52:14 Orange Pill App
• Project Spotlight
- 00:52:39 Lnscribe
- 00:54:29 Joltz rewards
- 00:54:38 The Bitcoin Legacy Project
- 00:55:18 lndk
Lightning & L2
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 00:58:15 Cashu
- 01:04:01 Mutiny
- 01:11:23 Alby
- 01:12:27 lnbits
- 01:12:52 Core Lightning
- 01:14:37 TORQ
- 01:14:51 Satimoto
- 01:15:10 Swisspay
- 01:15:20 Polar
- 01:15:33 Nayuta Wallet
- 01:15:46 Wavlake
- 01:15:55 River
• Project Spotlight
- 01:15:59 Zap Planner
- 01:17:07 Vortex
- 01:18:51 Etta Wallet
Nostr
• Software Releases & Project Updates
- 01:19:22 Damus 1tapzap
• Project Spotlight
- 01:20:02 nostr-zap
- 01:21:05 nostr-control
- 01:21:35 Wasabi Nostr
Boosts
- Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @apemithrandir, @obex, @northofthewall, @vake, @hipocrates, @dubravko
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter
- 01:25:52 LSPs specifications [251]
- 01:30:15 Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting [251]
News & Noteworthy
• Lightning & L2
- 01:37:53 Burak announces Ark
- 01:46:15 MicroStrategy announces Lightning Platform
- 01:46:28 Wallet of Satoshi Has Processed 9m LN Payments
- 01:46:46 Zebedeeio announce the Node.js SDK for the ZEBEDEE API
• Privacy
- 01:47:02 BULL BITCOIN becomes a No-KYC exchange
- 01:47:08 HODL HODL and BISQ announce lightning integration
- 01:47:37 Lava Launched in Miami
- 01:49:37 Amboss privacy concerns
• Integration
- 01:51:06 Total Play has integrated Bitcoin Lightning payments
- 01:51:16 IBEX Mercado announced partnership with Grupo Salinas
• Business News
- 01:51:23 Strike expands Bitcoin payments to 65 countries, moves global headquarters to El Salvador
- 01:51:39 Paxful is back online
- 01:51:48 Stripe announced the launch of a Stripe-hosted fiat-to-crypto onramp
- 01:54:35 Fold Expands to El Salvador as Base for Latin American Operations
- 01:54:59 Bittrex Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
• Funding
- 01:55:06 Fedi
- 01:56:32 HRF gifts 16.5 BTC via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide
- 01:56:45 River Raises $35 Million
- 01:56:50 Tether will allocate >15% of operating profits to purchase Bitcoin
- 01:58:32 Brink partners with Marathon Digital to raise $1,000,000 for funding Bitcoin Core development
• Legal & Political
- See full shownotes (link below)
• Reads
- 01:59:33 Here's a few of our recent recommended reads: Watchtowers on Lightning Network by Voltage.cloud, How do Lightning Network Fees Work by Voltage.cloud, Seeding a Bitcoin marketplace by Pablo, Using Spacechains and Fedimint to solve scaling by Fiatjaf, Bitcoin, CTV Covenants, and Enigma by Polyd_
Links & Contacts
• Audience Questions
- 02:04:01 "How many words of a 24 word seed phrase you'd need to know (in the correct order), for the full seed phrase to become realistically brute-forceable?"
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-37/
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