Smart Vaults (ex-Coinstr) Launches Testnet Beta, Offers 100k Sats for Testers "We've released the BETA version of Smart Vaults for testnet. We are looking for a handful of people to test the vault creation and spending process."

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Smart Vaults (ex-Coinstr) Launches Testnet Beta, Offers 100k Sats for Testers

Smart Vaults is a bitcoin multi-custody protocol for spending policies and proposal execution. It uses Nostr relays and clients for discovering sig...

Current App's Team Says Apple Allowed Them To Keep Zaps on Posts The Current app shared an update saying it found a way to keep Nostr note zaps on their app. More details are expected this weekend.

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Current App's Team Says Apple Allowed Them To Keep Zaps on Posts

Current App for iOS and Android is an open source react-native client on top of the Nostr protocol that comes with a built-in Lightning wallet.

$37M CoinsPaid Hack Was Triggered By A Fake Job Interview "The fake interview and subsequent hack were the culmination of an elaborate six-month operation in which hackers launched numerous denial-of-service and brute-force attacks, which probe networks for technical vulnerabilities that can then be exploited."

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$37M CoinsPaid Hack Was Triggered By A Fake Job Interview

"The fake interview and subsequent hack were the culmination of an elaborate six-month operation in which hackers launched numerous denial-of-servi...

Primal Android v0.14.3 Released, Web Client Added Relay Management Primal Android Beta 3 was released with content and user search and working follow/unfollow mechanism while web client added relay management.

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Primal Android v0.14.3 Released, Web Client Added Relay Management

Primal Android Beta 3 was released with content and user search and working follow/unfollow mechanism while web client added relay management.

Vault: Free and Open Source Nostr Password Manager Vault is a decentralized password manager where your passwords are encrypted by your keys and stored on relays.

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Vault: Free and Open Source Nostr Password Manager

Vault is a decentralized password manager where your passwords are encrypted by your keys and stored on relays.

Magic Webstore Added Store Metadata, Nostr Auth, Notifications & More Magic Webstore is a free and open source bitcoin bitcoin and nostr webstore with whisper addresses for enhanced privacy.

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Magic Webstore Added Store Metadata, Nostr Auth, Notifications & More

Magic Webstore is a free and open source bitcoin bitcoin and nostr webstore with whisper addresses for enhanced privacy.

BitForge: Fireblocks Researchers Uncovered Vulnerabilities in Over 15 Major MPC Wallets "The Fireblocks cryptography research team has uncovered BitForge – a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in some of the most widely adopted implementations of multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, including GG-18, GG-20, and Lindell17. "

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BitForge: Fireblocks Uncovered Vulnerabilities in Over 15 Major MPC Wallets

"The Fireblocks cryptography research team has uncovered BitForge – a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in some of the most widely adopted imple...

Banks Hit with $549 Million in Fines For Use of Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage "U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wells Fargo and a raft of smaller or non-U.S. firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications," CNBC reported.

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Banks Hit with $549 Million in Fines For Use of Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage

"U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wells Fargo and a raft of smaller or non-U.S. firms that failed ...

Core Scientific Restructuring Plan Includes Equity Stake For Bitmain and Anchorage The world's largest mining machine maker is set to take a $54 million stake in Core Scientific in exchange for 27,000 S19j XP Miners and $23 million in cash as the miner emerges out of Chapter 11 proceedings.

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Core Scientific Restructuring Plan Includes Equity Stake For Bitmain and Anchorage

The world's largest mining machine maker is set to take a $54 million stake in Core Scientific in exchange for 27,000 S19j XP Miners and $23 millio...

Bitrefill Partners with eSIM Go to Offer eSIMs in Over 160 Countries “You can just get an e-SIM from the airplane wifi, install it in a minute, and be online from the moment your plane touches down on the tarmac, without worrying about getting a massive surprise bill from your telco," Bitrefill CEO Sergej Kotliar said.

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Bitrefill Partners with eSIM Go to Offer eSIMs in Over 160 Countries

"Bitrefill, a popular platform that sells gift cards for bitcoin, has announced its partnership with eSIM Go, enabling travelers in over 160 countr...

Binance Becomes 'The First Fully Licensed Exchange' in El Salvador "These licenses allow Binance to expand the products and services offered, including options tailored to the needs of our customers in El Salvador. It is also a great opportunity to collaborate closely with government authorities to support the adoption of crypto assets in the country, foster financial inclusion and innovation, and ensure customer protection," Daniel Acosta, Binance General Manager for Colombia, Central America, and the Caribbean, was quoted as saying.

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Binance Becomes 'The First Fully Licensed Exchange' in El Salvador

The exchange acquired both a Bitcoin Services Provider license (BSP) by the Central Reserve Bank (Banco Central de Reserva) and a non-provisional D...

Core Lightning v23.08rc1 Comes with Experimental Anchors, Splicing and Renepay Core Lightning open-source development community is inviting individuals to test new and experimental features before before its next major release.

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Core Lightning v23.08rc1 Comes with Experimental Anchors, Splicing and Renepay

Core Lightning open-source development community is inviting individuals to test new and experimental features before before its next major release.

Bitcoin Optech #263: DoS Protection Design Philosophy

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Bitcoin Optech #263: DoS Protection Design Philosophy

This issue discusses severe vulnerability in uses of Libbitcoin’s Bitcoin Explorer (bx) tool, summarizes a discussion about the design of DoS pro...

Stacker.News Adds Nostr Login, Zap Metadata & More

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Stacker.News Adds Nostr Login, Zap Metadata & More

Stacker.news is like hacker.news but pays you in sats.

Milk Sad: Wallet Theft Enabled By Bad Cryptography "We discovered a cryptographic weakness in the widely utilized Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) cryptocurrency wallet tool while following up on mysterious wallet thefts. The bx seed subcommand for generation of new wallet private key entropy is flawed and produces insecure output."

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Milk Sad: Wallet Theft Enabled By Weak Entropy

"This is the story of a wallet theft enabled by bad cryptography. It covers our research on problems with Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x (CVE-2023-39910),...

Iraq Blocks Telegram Access In The Country Citing 'Privacy Concerns' The ministry said in a statement it had asked the app to close down "platforms that leak the data of the official state institutions and the personal data of citizens... but the company did not respond and did not interact with any of these requests."

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Iraq Blocks Telegram Access In The Country Citing 'Privacy Concerns'

Iraqis now need a VPN to continue using the Telegram app.

Snort v0.1.12: nsecBunker Support

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Snort v0.1.12: nsecBunker Support

Snort is a nostr web UI built with React aiming for speed and efficiency.

RoninDojo v2.0.1 Released - Removed an obsolete permissions check that unnecessarily caused a redundant dojo stop during a RoninDojo update; - Added exposing Fulcrum indexer to the LAN by default; - Added connection info to Fulcrum credentials menu for the local connection.

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RoninDojo v2.0.1 Released

RoninDojo is an Installation Assistant and Administration Tool for Samourai Wallet's Dojo, Whirlpool, Indexer, and more.

StartOS v0.3.4.4: UI Improvements & Bug Fixes This release includes: - Https over Tor for faster UI loading times - Change password through UI - Use IP address for Network Folder backups - Multiple bug fixes, performance enhancements, and other small features

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StartOS v0.3.4.4: UI Improvements & Bug Fixes

StartOS is an open-source, browser-based graphical operating system for a personal server.

Iris Received Half of HRF's Secret Nostr Group Chats Bounty - "It's a quick & dirty solution, but works. A shared nostr account is created for the secret chat / group. Its nsec can be shared via link, qr code or invite message from a single-use anonymous account," Martti Malmi explained. - "Martti's submission with Iris did not qualify for the full bounty asonly Iris users can initiate a group chat," was clarified in the announcement.

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Iris Received Half of HRF's Secret Nostr Group Chats Bounty

Iris introduced support for secret Nostr group chats that don't leak metadata.