Here's a gist with the OP_RETURN chat history between Blockstream and the alleged whitehat. Plus scripts if you want to follow along. Someone should emit them as nostr messages.

Gist

Liquid incident: verified on-chain message history

Liquid incident: verified on-chain message history - 00_MESSAGE_HISTORY.md

Moving almost $400 million, as part of a hack, at 1 sat/vbyte, takes steady hands.

Some hard numbers from an investigative journalist, comparing audience funding, sponsorship and just working for a mainstream publication. And as he points out, only the latter can provide you legal protection from those you investigate.

This is one of those woke nonsense things that are perfectly fine, if woke people could simply resist being so obnoxious about it. Classrooms could also just buy a globe. RIP Mercator.

Client Challenge

Silly take of the week: „we shouldn't have autonomous killer drones because terrorists might use them“ /dangerously-skip-permissions Fortunately this was just a silly headline writer. The actual person being interviewed pointed out it's worrying, but inevitable.

Some of these consumer use cases sound really contrived. But we'll see if it can still write code.

If you're a wallet developer and you like backups, in particular descriptor backups, consider reviewing #bip138:

GitHub

BIP138: Compact Encryption Scheme for Non-seed Wallet Data by pythcoiner · Pull Request #1951 · bitcoin/bips

This is a bip for encrypted backup, an encryption scheme for bitcoin wallet related metadata. Mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoi...