Please join us for our next Socratic Seminar! A special thanks to Strike for the event space.
Doors open at 6pm with discussion starting shortly after!
https://www.chicagobitcoincollective.com/
Announcement: https://x.com/Liquid_BTC/status/2096696272447218108
Negotiation: https://x.com/mononautical/status/2096805707245081017
Summary of exploit: https://x.com/mononautical/status/2096799973098799192
Breakdown of exploit: https://x.com/mononautical/status/2096928595432374706
Explicit sidestep of Liquid PAK address whitelist: https://x.com/OrangeSurfBTC/status/2096871214882972138
Commit introducing exploit: https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/commit/4e5ca94f6b6ce0eecb7dc1fa65780d9a724f67bb
Blockchain communication: https://mempool.space/address/bc1ql4mfu6aundtkksxklfajs2h3t9nzcd6gyqjlte
UPGRADE TO VERSION 26.06.7 NOW!!!
Announcement: https://x.com/Core_LN/status/2093429095690358820
Summary of one DOS vulnerability: https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/09/04/#responsible-disclosure-of-a-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-cln
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-powers-the-first-crypto-backed-conforming-mortgages-by-better
https://github.com/bitcoin-data/stale-blocks
HWI project was intended to enable Bitcoin Core to support hardware wallets.
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/issues/850
How a mining pool could pay its miners directly in the block reward without publishing who got paid — and the two changes to BIP 352 that make it possible.
https://average-gary.github.io/sp-coinbase-vectors/
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/silent-payments-coinbase/2833
Use Bitcoin in Signal. Your Signal contacts come with you.
https://x.com/RadarChat/status/2075606872917217710
BIP draft describes opt-in P2P message called staletip whose goal is to announce recent stale chain tips to peers.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2241
This BIP draft describes the sharing of a full UTXO set via the p2p network.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2137
The 256F is excited to highlight the first Bitcoin mining product built on Mujina, the open-source mining firmware we fund. RY3T’s Nova turns surplus solar into hashrate, tracks PV curves in seconds, supports hashboard mixing, all via stock control boards.
https://www.256foundation.org/newsroom/ry3t-nova
A threshold custody Lightning Network channel.
https://nkohen.github.io/blog/iceberg/
https://x.com/robin_linus/status/2093022213096251704
https://hackmd.io/H7BO61ART0CazAh752K2eQ
https://x.com/avihu28/status/2092742315995480266
https://x.com/BitMEX/status/2080201602456301580
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/