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William K⚡Santiago🔑☢️
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CEO, C4 CCSSA at PrivKey LLC, Blockchain strategist, cybersecurity. The Mission: The Separation of Money and State.

Splits lets you split a dollar amount evenly across any number of Bitcoin Lightning invoices. A $100 restaurant bill can be split amongst your five friends, by creating five Bitcoin Lightning invoices for $20 each, which are all payable to your Strike cash balance.

https://www.checksplits.com

Researchers at Ledger's Donjon lab recently used a laser to partially expose one of three chips used to secure master keys in the Coldcard Mk4 hardware wallet.

Donjon Faults SE2 on Mk4

https://blog.coinkite.com/donjon-faults-2023/

There is no reason to be overly concerned in this case. This exploit requires physical access to the device and illustrates why you shouldn't leave hardware wallets just lying around. Keep your devices in access-controlled locations, and use multiple keys for significant amounts.

Spoofed hot wallets are a sneaky threat for your wallet. If you import a seed phrase in one, malicious actors can drain your funds.

Mark Cuban loses nearly $900k on MetaMask fake

Mark Cuban believes he installed a counterfeit MetaMask wallet, potentially exploited by a scammer to pilfer his cryptocurrency

https://blockworks.co/news/mark-cuban-loses-crypto

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

An Introduction to Spiderchain

A review of the latest layer 2 protocol proposed for pegging bitcoin to a sidechain.

https://blog.lopp.net/an-introduction-to-spiderchain/

"Take the idea of proof-of-stake as a base layer consensus mechanism, and throw the idea away for right now. That's not what this is, and the problems that need to be solved to enable proof-of-stake as a second layer system instead of a stand alone base layer are not the same. Proof-of-stake is essentially a federation, but where anyone can join and can't be stopped from doing so, and with a mechanism to punish members for acting malicious. As a base layer that creates all kinds of existential issues, like the objectivity of a slashing penalty. Proof-of-stake as a second layer does not have that problem when the bonds for slashing are on the mainchain, governed by proof-of-work."

SPIDERCHAINS: A PROOF OF STAKE SECOND LAYER FOR BITCOIN

Botanix Labs has designed a mechanism for governing a two-way pegged Bitcoin sidechain system with proof-of-stake collateralized with BTC.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/spiderchains-a-proof-of-stake-second-layer

Umbrel will be getting competition from the FOSS community soon with Citadel https://runcitadel.space

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

Announcing RoboFab, World's First Factory for Humanoid Robots https://youtu.be/514IZJENQ3s?si=3z8TicmXIC-7THMl

GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.

The Truth Behind Cuba's Bitcoin Revolution | What it Really Looks Like https://youtu.be/UPp0Xbk4bFo?si=umAyBt883WQhx6I6

Still using Microsoft Products?

Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked

Other failures along the way included a signing key improperly appearing in a crash dump.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft-corporate-account-led-to-azure-breach-by-chinese-hackers/