Moving an historically significant train station:
Sjors Provoost
sjors@sprovoost.nl
npub1v25j...exw3
https://github.com/sjors/
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Podcast: https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes
I suppose the best way to watch comedian political activists, if at all, is to have your agent plough through the sources in advance and splice in the missing nuance!
So Nostube by @florian is pretty cool...
Nostube
Video on Nostr: the web app, the self-hosted server and the embed player
Speaking of stealing billions...
> Delay box 3 threatens after 'pitch black advice' Council of State and tax authorities
The maybe-partially-unrealized gains tax might be delayed by another year again, to 2029.
#box3


Ok, now this is actually an interesting move...
#binance

FixupX
Esmaill (@czesmaill)
The Binance hacker might have just pulled off one of the smartest moves I’ve seen in crypto.
First, Tether froze $1.5 billion in USDT.
Then Cir...
> the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop
Unless you still use notepad and email patches, you probably want to have a production deployment process that assumes compromised developer laptops.

X (formerly Twitter)
Binance (@binance) on X
Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker...
> Paolo Ardoino, chief executive of Tether, said his company had in response frozen about $1.547bn of USDT, its $180bn dollar-linked stablecoin.
> Total losses across Binance “might be a bit higher” than $1bn, CZ later warned.
About the amount of BTC stolen?
> Bitcoin fell 3.2 per cent to $78,623.
So the coin that couldn't be frozen and that people now need to buy again, drops in value.
https://www.ft.com/content/c7f5e395-c3a9-430e-b757-5014527b4d49
Bug existed for a decade, then found three times in a row independently over the past few months.

Bitcoin Core
CVE-2026-117346 - Undo file overflow under extreme conditions
CVE-2026-117346 - Undo file overflow under extreme conditions
I had my agent write an anti-exfil BIP for hardware wallets, implement it in libsecp, Bitcoin Core and several firmwares, with HWI device simulator integration tests on top.
That said, I haven't read it :-)
It might even be the wrong design.
I won't have time to work on this anytime soon, so feel free to run with it. They're all pull requests against my forks.

GitHub
Draft BIPXXX: interactive anti-exfiltration for single-signer Taproot by Sjors · Pull Request #2 · Sjors/bips
This draft specifies an interactive anti-exfiltration protocol for single-signer BIP340 signatures and provisional PSBT input fields. A malicious d...
For people listening to Bitcoin, Explained via Apple, Spotify, etc (but not @Fountain and others apps that use the Podcast Index): I redirected the hosting to my self-hosted Castopod instance.
This may cause the last 9 episodes to reappear in your feed. Just listen to them again.
Also, episode 101 now has a transcript!
And episode 102 is coming in two weeks(tm).
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/
Can we rate limit critical bugs to one per day, so that when someone says "todays bug" it's unambiguous?
Or just block port 80 and 443 on all your firewalls.
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Stop Collecting Data (or at least keep archives offline)
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> An internal research model asked to update a cryptocurrency trading application used funds from a wallet that the task had not supplied to pay for a deployment on Sepolia, an Ethereum test network. It derived wallet keys from publicly known developer recovery phrases, found an account with test-network funds, and used that account to pay for the requested contract deployment. The model questioned whether it had permission, then reasoned that a public recovery phrase and valueless test-network tokens made the funds acceptable to use.
Using a funded test cryptocurrency wallet without authorization · OpenAI Alignment
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