Pete Rizzo's Twitter Account Appears To Have Been Compromised
The Twitter account of Pete Rizzo, Chief Content Officer at Bitcoin Magazine and Editor-at-Large for Kraken, has been shilling JRNL token for the past 4 hours.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/pete-rizzo-twitter-blue-check-hacked/
Atomic Wallet Hack: At Least 1% of Users Affected, $35M+ Stolen
"Security investigation is ongoing. We report victim addresses to major exchanges & blockchain analytics to trace and block the stolen funds."
Block 792688: Important News of the Week
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Zaps Are Now Live on Primal
Snort v0.1.9: Trending Posts, New DM Styles & More
Gitern: A SSH-based Multitenant Git Host by nostr:npub1qkfnmpuz692azr8c5phn0930x2v92xyqvwgr6ve8znaa3qd6c3hq09ertp Has Been Open Sourced
"Maybe it'll inspire (indirectly) someone to work on the nostr github everyone is waiting for."
Blixt Wallet and Testnet App Reinstated to Google Play Store
"The suspension was due to app similarities, but we've clarified that Blixt Testnet is for testing only."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blixt-wallet-and-blixt-wallet-testnet-reinstated-to-googles-play-store/
EU’s Proposed Cyber Resilience Act Raises Concerns for Open Source and Cybersecurity
The EU is in the middle of the amendments process for its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a law intended to bolster Europe’s defenses against cyber-attacks and improve product security. Without adopting changes to the proposed text, the act will have the opposite effect.
Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released
"It's Bitcoin Core v25.0, with Antoine Riard's full-rbf peering code, and some additional minor updates to it."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-core-v25-0-full-rbf-peering/
Arti v1.1.5: Onion Services, RPC, and a Security Patch
Nix Bitcoin v0.0.92: Removed Spark Wallet, Deprecated CLBOSS
Nix Bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Scaling & Anonymizing Bitcoin at Layer 1 with Client-side Validation
- "In the paper, we propose a way to upgrade Bitcoin layer 1 (blockchain/timechain) without a required softfork."
- "The upgrade leverages properties of client-side validation, can be gradual, has a permissionless deployment option (i.e. not requiring majority support or miner cooperation) and will have the scalability of the order O(logN) (no zk-proofs) or O(1) (with zk proofs), where N is a global number of transactions."
- "It also offers higher privacy (absence of publicly available ledger, transaction graphs, addresses, keys, signatures) and bounded Turing-complete programmability with a rich state provided by RGB or another client-side-validated smart contract system."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/scaling-anonymizing-bitcoin-at-layer-1-with-client-side-validation/
Mutiny Node v0.3.6: NWC, Performance Fixes
Walletano: Easy To Use Lightning Web Wallet
Walletano is a web-based app (PWA) that provides an easy way to manage your Bitcoin/Lightning wallets for custodial users, LND node runners seeking self-custodial options, and companies looking to transform corporate email addresses into Lightning addresses.
BTC Warp: Light Node Syncing with zkSNARKs
- BTC Warp is a proof-of-concept on how to solve the light node syncing problem for Bitcoin. It suggests verifying zkSNARKs attesting to the longest valid PoW chain instead of syncing a light node with Bitcoin history.
Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant, Rules US Federal Judge in a Historic Decision
"The cell phone likely contains huge quantities of highly sensitive information—including copies of that person’s past communications, records of their physical movements, potential transaction histories, Internet browsing histories, medical details, and more … No traveler would reasonably expect to forfeit privacy interests in all this simply by carrying a cell phone when returning home from an international trip," writes the EFF.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/border-searches-of-cell-phones-require-a-warrant-us-federal-judge/
Tor v0.4.8.1-alpha: Onion Service Proof-of-Work
- When onion service proof-of-work is widely implemented amongst nodes, the Denial of Service (DoS or DDoS) attacks that have plagued the network for years could be considerably lessened.
- For now, the feature is disabled by default.
BTCPay Server v1.10.0: New Features & Improvements
nsecBunker: Nostr Keys Delegation
nsecBunker allows one to import your Nostr private keys to a secure, trusted environment (e.g. HSM, self-hosted in your basement, etc) and enforce various signing policies.
The Bitcoin Legacy Project: Explore Bitcoin History
"Through an interactive timeline, take a deep dive into the complete history of the only cryptocurrency worth owning, Bitcoin."