Bitcoin Core v22.0 vulns

https://bitcoincore.org/en/security-advisories/

This month, the public learned of two new security vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core v22.0, both of which cause the node to crash.

Immutable democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nnM5_Z90E

https://www.simpleproof.com/

We will watch a documentary about an IRL deployment of document commitments to improve election integrity in Guatemala.

Dark Skippy

https://darkskippy.com/

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6979

Dark Skippy is a demonstration of how to use compromised hardware signer firmware to leak secret key material in bitcoin transactions.

BitVMX

https://bitvmx.org/

BitVMX aims to make refutable computation on bitcoin a bit more practical than the original BitVM design.

Stable Channels

https://stablechannels.com/

With a stable channel client, two users can rapidly settle a contract for difference so that one counterparty maintains a USD-equivalent bitcoin value so long as the other cooperates.

Impact of full RBF on effectiveness of compact blocks

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30493#issuecomment-2260918779

@gmaxwell observes a big increase in the rate at which nodes have all the transactions mentioned in compact blocks when full-RBF is enabled vs. when it is not.

Mutiny Wallet shutting down

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-is-shutting-down/

“tldr: Our company is exploring alternative products, we’ll be shutting down the wallet at the end of the year but you can still self host.”