Announcements

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Liquid Hacked for 4k BTC

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

CLN Critical Vulnerability

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

Coinbase Announces Crypto-backed Mortgages

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-powers-the-first-crypto-backed-conforming-mortgages-by-better

Call for stale block data

https://github.com/bitcoin-data/stale-blocks

Bitcoin Core HWI Announces Intention to be Archived

HWI project was intended to enable Bitcoin Core to support hardware wallets.

https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/issues/850

Silent Payments for Miner Coinbase Payouts

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

RadarChat - Signal fork that uses bitcoin

Use Bitcoin in Signal. Your Signal contacts come with you.

https://x.com/RadarChat/status/2075606872917217710

BIP332: Stale Tip Relay

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

BIP452: P2P UTXO Set Sharing

This BIP draft describes the sharing of a full UTXO set via the p2p network.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2137

The RY3T Nova: The First Product Built on Mujina

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

Iceberg: Nested Threshold Signatures for Lightning

A threshold custody Lightning Network channel.

https://nkohen.github.io/blog/iceberg/

Glass Coins Preliminary Protocol Spec Announced (formerly known as ShieldedCSV)

https://x.com/robin_linus/status/2093022213096251704
https://hackmd.io/H7BO61ART0CazAh752K2eQ

Quantum Safe Bitcoin Tx on Mainnet

https://x.com/avihu28/status/2092742315995480266

BitMEX Shutting Down

https://x.com/BitMEX/status/2080201602456301580

Digital Panopticon News

Dark Web Selling 153M+ American’s Drivers Licenses

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/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

Flock goes much further than tracking license plates

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/