BR077 - BIP85 Drama, Bitcoin Core, secp256k1, DATUM, Jam, Krux, Twelve Cash, NomadNet, Salt Typhoon Hack + MORE ft. Rob & Paul

I'm joined by guests Rob Hamilton & Future Paul to go through the list.

Housekeeping
00:00:59 Nostr Rising dropping soon!
00:02:32 COLDCARD Tutorials
00:02:35 European Coldcard reseller Coldhodl


Major/Urgent Vulnerability Disclosures
 00:02:50 BIP85 Drama
 00:13:35 Delving Bitcoin
 00:14:46 Bitcoin Core


Bitcoin
 • Software Releases & Project Updates
 00:19:57 Bitcoin Core
 00:24:03 secp256k1
 00:33:04 BDK
 00:34:23 Electrs
 00:35:53 Nunchuk
 00:36:26 Mempool
 00:36:42 Blockstream Green
 00:37:15 Krux
 00:38:58 Coinbase
 00:39:17 BoltzExchange
 00:39:22 Jam
 00:42:57 libwally core
 00:43:02 Simple Bitcoin Wallet
 00:43:13 Braiins Toolbox
 00:43:20 LiveWallet
 00:43:30 The RoboSats Federation


• Project Spotlight
 00:43:46 DATUM
 00:47:31 BDK Swift Example Wallet
 00:48:29 Decoding Bitcoin
 00:48:42 Twelve Cash
 00:51:29 Kyoto Bitcoin Light Client
 00:51:48 Bitcoin script editor & visualizer
 00:51:53 WeSatoshis
 00:52:19 UtxoPocket
 00:52:28 Simple Proof


Vulnerability Disclosures
 00:52:43 Supply chain attack
 00:53:29 Backdoored backdoors
 00:56:37 Decade-old Linux vulnerability
 00:58:14 Perfctl
 00:59:05 Google raises privacy concerns
 00:59:34 Americans' personal information leaked


Privacy & Other Related Bitcoin Projects
 • Software Releases & Project Updates
 1:00:19 SimpleX
 1:00:48 Sideband
 1:01:05 reticulum-meshchat
 1:01:16 NomadNet

• Project Spotlight
 1:11:18 Privacy Index
 1:11:25 DarkIRC


Lightning & L2(+)
• Project Spotlight
1:11:46 Diamond Wallet
1:11:53 LNUnit
1:11:58 PLEBNET-Wiki
1:12:03 Matrix-Lightning-Tip-Bot
1:12:14 Predyx
1:12:18 Fedimint Web SDK
1:12:21 Fedimint Observer
1:12:23 NWC Tester

• Software Releases & Project Updates
1:12:38 Ark
1:13:17 Lightning Terminal
1:13:33 LNDg
1:13:43 BTCPay
1:13:45 Shockwallet
1:13:51 minibits
1:13:55 clboss
1:14:01 LNMarket
1:14:12 Star9Labs


Nostr
• Project spotlight
1:14:23 Khatru
1:14:29 Nostr Mixer Relay
1:14:36 Comet
1:14:44 Dart Nostr Development Kit
1:14:48 Nostr-fetch
1:14:49 ONOSENDAI
1:14:56 Nowser
1:15:03 Route96
1:15:06 Ghost relay
1:15:09 Grain
1:15:14 Chronicle
1:15:16 Notestack
1:16:14 Atomstr
1:16:24 Nostr Metadata Updater
1:16:28 Minestr
1:16:36 GM Relay
1:16:44 NostrSMS


Audience Questions
 1:19:25 - "Can you explain why the usage of libsecp256k is one of the most important choices in writing Bitcoin code, for this of us who are not cryptographers and do listen to the end? And answer in as non-engineery a way as possible?" -drianmalcolm


Boosts
1:25:53 Shoutout to top boosters drianmalcolm, Ape Mithrandir, Chris, seedor_io, podconf, vake & btconboard


Tech tip of the day
 1:31:21 Changesets


News & Noteworthy
 • Bitcoin
 1:31:56 Bitkey partners with Robinhood

• Tradfi
 1:32:33 BlackRock

• Security
 1:34:44 NIST

• Government & Political
 1:35:08 Bank of Canada pauses plans


Reads
 1:35:29

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