Vitalik got sim swapped, don’t use SMS based 2FA!
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1701595754673078743
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-reveals-x-account-hack-was-caused-by-sim-swap-attack
After our Script workshop last month I thought it would be worthwhile to propose a “skinny” soft for to add 64bit math in the Script interpreter. Very much WIP.
https://github.com/Christewart/bips/tree/2023-09-11-64bit-arith
https://github.com/Christewart/bitcoin/commits/64bit-arith
Credit: Chris Stewart
Lighnting labs getting close to shipping 0.17.0 that contains the ability to create taproot channels!
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.17.0.md
This release marks the first release that includes the new musig2-based taproot channel type. As new protocol feature hasn’t yet been finalized, users must enable taproot channels with a new flag: –protocol.simple-taproot-chans. Once enabled, user MUST use the explicit channel type to request the taproot channel type (pending support by the remote peer). For lncli openchannel, –channel_type=taproot should be used.
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/7904
Credit: Lightning Labs
Previously discussed at Socratic Seminar 41.
Tor’s PoW defense is a dynamic and reactive mechanism, remaining dormant under normal use conditions to ensure a seamless user experience, but when an onion service is under stress, the mechanism will prompt incoming client connections to perform a number of successively more complex operations.
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-services/
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-August/021868.html
Credit: Dan Gould
This proposes a method for negotiating a payjoin without the receiver needing to operate an web server. Instead users rely on untrusted relays.
https://github.com/JohnLaw2/ln-factory-optimized
Credit: John Law
This construction provides channel factories with some attractive properties, deployable today: (1) shorter safe HTLC timeouts for payments across several hops and (2) HTLC resolution without closing the channel factory.