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Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests

BR090 - COLDCARD, BullBitcoin, Bitcoin Safe, miningpool-observer, Zero Fee/P2PK Playgrounds, Tangem Private Keys Exposed, Proton Wallet Vuln, Signatures Explained, "Not Enough UTXOs!" + MORE ft. Rob

Jan 3, 2025
01:23:15
I'm joined by guest Rob Hamilton to go through the list.

Housekeeping
(00:01:37) Verify-address over NFC using a Coldcard Q and BDK iOS example wallet

Vulnerability Disclosures
(00:18:57) New fake Ledger data breach emails try to steal crypto wallets 
(00:20:51) Cryptocurrency hardware wallet Tangem fixes app bug
(00:26:03) Irrevocable fees—stealing from LN using revoked commitment transactions
(00:27:13) Zellic identified a vulnerability in Proton Wallet's preview version


Bitcoin
• Software Releases & Project Updates
(00:28:29) Coldcard Edge
(00:33:00) BLOCKCLOCK
(00:33:36) BDK
(00:33:50) Nunchuk
(00:34:19) BullBitcoin Mobile
(00:36:59) Bitcoin Keeper
(00:37:21) Electrs
(00:39:20) BTCPayServer
(00:39:36) rust-payjoin
(00:39:45) Krux installer
(00:39:55) Frostsnap
(00:40:42) Bitcoin Safe
(00:42:03) Blockstream Satellite
(00:42:28) Raspiblitz
(00:42:39) Ashigaru
(00:45:02) BoltzExchange
(00:45:04) Mempal
(00:45:11) Zaprite
(00:45:13) ESP-Miner

• Project Spotlight
 (00:45:18) Satoshi
 (00:45:28) Joinstr
 (00:45:33) miningpool-observer
 (00:46:51) Dojo Bay
 (00:46:56) Nightly Bitcoin Core Tests
 (00:47:04) Nigiri
 (00:47:15) Run Litd
 (00:47:28) bllsh
 (00:48:05) Btceed
 (00:48:12) Zero Fee Playground
 (00:49:17) P2PK Playground
 (00:50:51) Bitcoin Testnet4 Faucet
 (00:50:58) Hashteroids
 (00:51:07) Community Hub by My First Bitcoin


Major/Urgent Vulnerability Disclosures
(00:51:39) Oasis discovers a critical flaw in Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication system
(00:51:53) Five dollar wrench attacks
(00:52:40) Two men fall victim to phishing scams, in May 2024
(00:55:28) Apache MINA's CVE-2024-52046 flaw
(00:55:37) WPA3 vulnerability
(00:56:07) Hackers compromise 16 Chrome extensions
(00:56:54) Symlink exploit

Audience Questions
(00:57:32) Can you explain how signatures work for spending Bitcoin?
(01:01:04) When people say "there's not enough UTXOs for everyone to have one". How do you quantify that?
(01:06:20) I have a legacy address that starts with 1 wirh some BTC Should I be worried about CC?
(01:07:16) Why should anyone, except maybe millionaires, self custody?
(01:10:20) If BTC must be essentially be held in custody, then why use BTC over gold?

Boosts
(01:13:47) Shoutout to top boosters @Ape Mithrandir, @shadowysuperbadger, @user40113771, @btconboard, @Leurico8 & @Juan.

News & Noteworthy
• Encryption
(01:16:45) NIST proposes to standardize wider variant of AES

• Funding
 (01:17:40) OpenSats Ninth Wave of Nostr Grants
 (01:17:47) Spiral renews its grant to BTCPayServer
 (01:17:49) HFR donates 7 bitcoin to fund Bitcoin development and projects
 (01:17:53) Btrust its Q4 2024 Btrust grant recipients

• Mining
 (01:18:12) GreenpeaceUSA's campaign to modify Bitcoin's proof-of-work likely ended

• Privacy
 (01:18:29) Samourai Wallet pretrial hearing postponed to March 12, 2025
 (01:19:59) Russian government directs ISPs to identify users accessing blocked content via VPNs

• Government & Political
 (01:20:14) Craig Wright is handed a one-year suspended sentence in the UK


Links & Contacts:
Website: https://bitcoin.review/
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-90

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