Citadel Dispatch

The podcast discusses personal experiences, launching the pleblab Bitcoin accelerator program, supporting builders and open source culture, the vibrant Bitcoin scene in Austin, and the importance of building in public. They also talk about the role of PlugLab in supporting non-technical individuals, the evolution and growth of Pleb Lab, and the challenges faced by the speakers in building a strong Bitcoin community. Additionally, they explore the target audience for Bitcoin initiatives, the importance of infrastructure companies, and the need to accelerate the growth of builders in the Bitcoin space.

ODELL, NVK, Justin Moon, Pierre Rochard, Stephan Livera Full Show Notes with Links TIMESTAMPS: Software Releases & Project Updates 00:03:33 Fully Noded v0.3.4/v0.3.5 - Sep 29, 2022 00:05:10 Specter Desktop v1.13.0 - Sep 22, 2022 00:07:04 Nunchuk 1.9.14 - Sep 27, 2022 00:13:29 Electrum 4.3.2 - Sep 26, 2022 00:20:02 Fountain 0.5.1 - Sep 30, 2022 00:24:38 Robosats v0.2.1-alpha - Sep 30, 2022 00:25:18 COLDCARD 5.0.7 - Oct 05, 2022 00:26:53 EmbassyOS v0.3.2 - Oct 05, 2022 00:36:12 Blockstream Green QT 1.1.4 - Oct 05, 2022 00:38:59 lnd v0.15.2-beta - Oct 10, 2022 00:49:19 Samurai v0.99.98f Noteworthy 00:50:42 Jam: a modern interface for JoinMarket 00:53:33 BitcoinTreasuries.NET 00:55:50 Stratum V2 reference implementation (SRI) available for pilot testing. 01:01:23 Pleb creates a 2 of 3 multi-sig, air-gapped Vault with COLDCARD, Ledger & TAPSIGNER using Keeper 01:09:12 Peach - P2P Mobile application that connects Bitcoin Buyers & Sellers 01:12:27 Celsius Disclosed Names and Transaction History of All Users During Bankruptcy 01:25:13 Alby - The Bitcoin Lightning App for your Browser 01:31:07 Arrested Tornado Cash developer to stay in jail after appeal rejected 01:38:26 Grayscale unveils bitcoin mining-centered investment entity 01:38:42 European Union Announces New Sanctions Against Russia Including a "Ban" on All Russian Bitcoin Wallets 01:43:07 bitnob launches in Kenya 01:44:45 Swan Acquires Specter Solutions 01:47:49 Block's Decentralized Exchange Protocol Team 'TBD' Partners with Circle 01:48:20 BitGo Unveils Custodial Lightning 01:48:52 River Lightning Services 01:52:06 Bitcoin mining hosting company Compute North files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 01:53:56 Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft forks on signet (#219) Competitions 01:55:14 [Bitcoin Design Community Designathon] 01:56:59 [Legends of Lightning] Events 01:58:31 Adopting Bitcoin 01:58:39 Africa Bitcoin Conference 01:58:49 Unconfiscatable 01:59:15 Plan B Lungano 01:59:22 Pacific Bitcoin 01:59:27 Bitcoin for India support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoA72saVAuQ8hYCnBO0Lymw

Conversation on regulations and privacy at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, moderated by Stephan Livera. Video Version Other Panelists: Patrick Hansen Kevin Murcko Sjors Provoost support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoA72saVAuQ8hYCnBO0Lymw bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos podcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch   telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto

The podcast explores Silent Link, a service offering anonymous eSIMs decoupled from users' official identity. Topics include privacy features, challenges faced by Bitcoin-only merchants, and the benefits of accepting Bitcoin globally. The discussions also touch on EPM services vs self-hosted VPNs and positive experiences with Specter Wallet.

Software Releases and Project Updates 00:01:41 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.7 - Sep 9, 2022 (bit.ly/3BClP0f) 00:05:56 Core Lightning v0.12.0 - Aug 24, 2022 (bit.ly/3S5lr1m) 00:12:43 Blockclock 1.2.0 - Sep 15, 2022 (bit.ly/3BxSILG) 00:13:34 Spectre desktop v1.12.0 - Aug 26, 2022 (bit.ly/3qSWBWK) 00:16:28 Joinmarket v0.9.7 - Aug 28, 2022 (bit.ly/3qWoH3f) 00:17:50 NPM package for SeedXOR. (bit.ly/3C8BOFb) 00:25:56 RoboSats on Umbrel (bit.ly/3fcjDFa) 00:27:19 Ledger adding miniscript (bit.ly/3UmX4xX) 00:29:16 Trezor & Wasabi Join Forces To Make Bitcoin More Private (bit.ly/3BXXJOV) 00:30:03 Fulcrum added to bitcoinbinary (bit.ly/3DK4xBc) 00:37:51 btcd v0.23.1-beta, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3Urjwpv) 00:38:04 Zeus v0.6.6, Aug 26 2022 (bit.ly/3f9vpjD) 00:39:24 Nunchuk implements bip21, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3BZWG14) 00:39:57 BISQ v1.9.5, Aug 22 2022 (bit.ly/3LyPrR5) 00:41:01 Fountain Podcasts v0.4.8 (bit.ly/3f1ZTnH) 01:33:44 ATEC608A NRND (bit.ly/3xGWmBZ) 01:39:26 ETH merge (bit.ly/3SlgfWR) 01:51:21 Spiral - Private info retrieval block explorer (bit.ly/3BDto70) 01:56:03 US Treasury OFAC Releases Clarifications on Tornado Cash Sanctions (bit.ly/3S1PEyl) 01:57:05 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format (bit.ly/3Sj5c17) 02:00:51 STARK - Zero knowledge bitcoin blockchain state prover (bit.ly/3C0oT8b) 02:03:09 Mullvad VPN hardware device (bit.ly/3f9LV3p) Noteworthy 00:53:47 BIPBounty: Tax Deductible Bitcoin Bug Bounties  (bit.ly/3LMxP4l) 00:59:34 Fedimint grant season (bit.ly/3S32zjP) 01:00:00 Tether Holds Firm on Decision Not To Freeze Tornado Cash Addresses (bit.ly/3UwFgAg) 01:01:04 New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project “in Wolf’s Clothing” (bit.ly/3xHo1Ti) 01:01:49 Tadge Dryja joins Lightspark (https://bit.ly/3SoAZNG) 01:11:26 Shoutout, no bullshit bitcoin - (bit.ly/3DEqB05) 01:12:22 LN Explorer (bit.ly/3xIYF7k) 01:16:34 Ledger wallets now available at Best Buy (bit.ly/3BA10mr) Bitcoin Optech Newsletter: 01:24:13 Bitcoin Core #23202 extends the psbtbumpfee RPC 01:25:08 Eclair #2387 adds support for fee bumping and signet 01:25:27 LDK #1652 updates support for onion messages w/ ability to send reply paths and decode them when received 01:25:36 HWI #627 adds support for P2TR keypath spends using the BitBox02 hardware signing device 01:33:22 BDK begins verifying both ECDSA and schnorr signatures immediately after the wallet creates them 02:18:00 Events: OsloPlebs Austin Bitcoin Design Club BitBlockBoom Baltic Honeybadger BTCAzores Bitcoin Amsterdam The Bitcoin Collective Atlanta Bitcoin Conf Adopting Bitcoin Unconfiscatable Africa Bitcoin Conf

Different format than usual. This is a debate between Zelko and Mechanic with myself as moderator. We will return to our typical format next dispatch. EPISODE: 76 BLOCK: 754840 PRICE: 5171 sats per dollar DEBATE: Are the tradeoffs of Samourai Wallet's light client mode a benefit to users? Zelko on Twitter Mechanic on Twitter support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoA72saVAuQ8hYCnBO0Lymw bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos podcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch   telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto

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NVK and I are joined by Ledger CTO, Charles Guillemet, independent security researcher, Lazy Ninja, and Sparrow maintainer, Craig Raw to discuss bitcoin wallets. 45:22 Support requests 01:03:12 Noob vs advanced user features 01:06:42 Most common attack vectors 01:11:32 Backup and seeds 01:12:29 Seedless multisig setups 01:21:49 Single sig passphrases 01:26:30 Security tradeoffs and considerations 01:31:41 Air gapped PC vs hardware wallets 01:40:28 SD card vs USB connection 01:48:26 BIPs and standards 01:49:16 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format 01:58:146 The BIP process 02:03:42 TAPSGINER design and security tradeoffs 02:19:25 Squares new hardware wallet 02:40:00 Defending against government attacks ------ support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoA72saVAuQ8hYCnBO0Lymw bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos podcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch   telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto

I was joined by Jack Mallers of Strike and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 on stage at BitBlockBoom 2022 in Dallas. Apologies for the sound quality, they had some technical issues on their side. Video: https://youtu.be/qHjgYsZfHDQ ------ support the show: https://citadeldispatch.com/contribute twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoA72saVAuQ8hYCnBO0Lymw bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos podcast: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch   telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ join the chat: https://matrix.to/#/#citadel:bitcoin.kyoto

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