BR004 - JoininBox, Tornado Cash, Swan & Casa data leaks, Square HWW & MORE ft. Justin Moon & Odell

BR004 - JoininBox, Tornado Cash, Swan & Casa data leaks, Square HWW & MORE ft. Justin Moon & Odell

Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests

I'm joined again by guests Justin Moon and Matt Odell to help me read the list.

Software Releases and Project Updates

  • 00:02:35 Sparrow 1.6.6, Aug 4 2022 (https://bit.ly/3dTsiMm)
  • 00:03:20 JoininBox v0.7.0, Aug 7 2022 (https://bit.ly/3CyCfct)
  • 00:08:27 Electrum 4.3.0, August 5, 2022 (https://bit.ly/3CtJF0w)
  • 00:20:30 Nunchuck iOS 1.9.12 / Android 1.9.18
  • 00:21:50 Blockstream Green 3.8.6 00:36:14
  • Embassy OS 0.3.1.1, July 27 2022 (https://bit.ly/3wyOPoh)
  • 00:39:21 Raspiblitz 1.8.0, July 29 2022 (https://bit.ly/2No2V3W)
  • 00:40:38 BDK #645 adds a way to specify which taproot spend paths to sign for. (https://bit.ly/3PQ5rOS)
  • 00:44:42 Kotlin Multiplatform Tor (a.k.a. kmp-tor) 0.4.7.8+1.3.0


Noteworthy

  • 00:45:04 New self custody redundancy service (http://www.s33dbank.com)
  • 00:51:15 Foundry provides Grant to Open Source Stratum V2 Developer
  • 00:55:33 Nix-Bitcoin 0.0.74 released (https://bit.ly/3AjiGSG).
  • 00:59:59 SigningDevices.com
  • 01:01:39 Tornado Cash Github Repo Taken Down, Lead Dev's Account Frozen.
  • 01:10:59 Swan email provider data leak & Casa discloses data breach
  • 01:21:19 ETH vs BTC differences in capturable attack surface
  • 01:25:08 Open Sats launches legal defence fund, which aims to defend open-source Bitcoin contributors from lawsuits (https://defendingbtc.com)
  • 01:32:30 Replicant: Reproducing a Fault Injection Attack on the Trezor One. (https://bit.ly/3ThLbsG)
  • 01:39:11 Square Hardware Wallet. (https://bit.ly/3wsHN4i)
  • 01:42:38 A new way to do DLCs - Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments. (https://bit.ly/3Auh5t8)
  • 01:47:08 BIP Proposal: Receiving and Change Derivation Paths in a Single Descriptor. (https://bit.ly/3QPAvQ6)
  • 01:48:08 Taproot Adoption (https://bit.ly/3Td8SCf)


Tech Tip of the Day

  • 01:49:04 Have Tor always running on the mac using brew
  • 01:51:45 MacOS key repeat
  • 01:52:43 Hosted VPN Using Lightning with Mullvad (https://bit.ly/3PHOmXj)
  • 01:53:33 Matt's suggestions for throwaway phone providers. (textverified.com, silent.link, mysudo.com, hushed.com)


Links & Contacts

  • Website: https://bitcoin.review/Podcast
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinreviewhq
  • NVK Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
  • Telegram: https://t.me/BitcoinReviewPod
  • Email: producer@coinkite.com
  • Nostr & LN:⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)

Full show notes: https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-04/

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