cover of episode BR016 - BTC Pay Server, Wasabi, Umbrel, Damus, Lastpass Hack +MORE ft. Livera, Michael Folkson & Wiz

BR016 - BTC Pay Server, Wasabi, Umbrel, Damus, Lastpass Hack +MORE ft. Livera, Michael Folkson & Wiz

2022/12/29
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I'm joined by guests Stephan Livera), Michael Folkson) & Wiz) to go through the list.

Housekeeping

  • 00:00:30 Breez SATSCARD Integration Bounty

Software Releases & Project Updates

  • 00:01:16 Tor Browser 12.0

  • 00:02:44 BTC Pay Server v1.7.1

  • 00:10:03 Wasabi v2.0.2.1

  • 00:16:16 Alby v1.21.0

  • 00:29:24 Zeus v0.7.0

  • 00:31:11 Fountain 0.5.8

  • 00:34:03 Umbrel Update 24.0.1-2

  • 00:40:07 OBW v0.2.0

  • 00:40:31 Liana 0.1: first beta release

  • 00:42:28 Ledger + Miniscript

  • 00:48:00 Damus

  • 01:01:49 Samurai - The Stealth Mode Update

Project spotlight

  • 01:06:09 SMS4Sats

  • 01:06:48 LNVPN

  • 01:06:54 Heatbit

  • 01:07:16 Zaprite

Boosts

  • 01:07:23 Thanks to everyone who streamed sats, and shoutout to our top boosters: @rot13maxi, @apemithrandir, @user4811802839281498, @hightraverse, @vake, @user1628071985352022, @raduza, @nachobitcoin, @erik99, @ca_dannerrrrr

News & Noteworthy

  • 01:09:31 The Block has been secretly funded for over a year with money from SBFs cryptocurrency trading firm

  • 01:10:00 EU to Make Crypto Companies Report Tax Details to Authorities

  • 01:10:34 Coinbase Received 12320 Government Demands for Customer Info

  • 01:10:56 Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act introduced

  • 01:11:08 Core Scientific filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

  • 01:12:37 Over 100 bitcoins tied to QuadrigaCX moved

  • 01:16:49 HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Awards $325K In Grants

  • 01:17:01 Paul Sztorc Launches 'Layer 2 Labs'

  • 01:18:28 Lastpass Hack

  • 01:27:48 BLIP Bitcoin-based encrypted chat platform announced

  • 01:28:43 Lightning Privacy Research

  • 01:31:00 At least 17% of Bitcoin Core 24.x listening nodes running full-rbf

  • 01:31:14 Breez raised $4.5M round to accelerate Lightning as a Service

  • 01:32:05 CashuBTC is now available for everyone via @LNbits

  • 01:36:42 Paxful Delists ETH

  • 01:36:47 Portion of Bitcoin Supply Held by Retail Investors Reaches All-Time High

  • 01:36:54 NVK.org: How to setup NIP5 verification using Github Pages

  • 01:37:10 André Neves: Set up your very own #nostr relay server in <5 mins

  • 01:39:12 WASI cryptography APIs (proposal)

  • 01:40:23 MicroStrategy increases #Bitcoin Holdings by 2500 BTC

Nostr Corner

  • 01:40:46 Jack Dorsey Provides 14 Bitcoin Grant to Open Source Distributed Communication Protocol 'Nostr'

  • 01:40:59 Twitter Announces Policy Banning Promotion of Other Social

Audience Questions

  • 01:41:20 "Is it possible (or advisable) to use the lightning network for coin mixing?

Events

  • 01:46:32 Upcoming Events

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Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-16/