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Bitcoin Optech #319: Stratum v2 Extension for Fee Revenue Sharing Newsletter #319 covers a proposal for allowing Stratum v2 pool miners to receive compensation for the transaction fees contained in the block templates they turn into shares, a research fund investigating OP_CAT , and a discussion about mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities with or without a soft fork.
Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App "In this release we introduce a brand new Friends & Family app in the app store! try it out to easily onboard your friends and family with a few clicks. We also added a receive-only PoS app, which you can freely share with employees. Let us know what you think."
☀️Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 GM! It is Wednesday, September 4th, 2024, and if you're looking to get irrationally angry about something trivial and waste a couple of productive hours, you're in the wrong place. Here's your daily No Bullshit GM report.
Older YubiKeys Vulnerable to Sophisticated Cloning Attacks - Report - The attack requires $11,000 in equipment and advanced electrical and cryptographic knowledge, likely limiting it to nation-states or similar entities in targeted scenarios. The risk of widespread attacks is extremely low. - YubiKeys with firmware before version 5.7 (released in May with a custom cryptolibrary) are vulnerable. Firmware updates aren't possible, so affected YubiKeys remain permanently at risk.
Strike Now Supports Sending Payments to BOLT 12 Offers "Whilst we have successfully achieved our goal of enabling BOLT 12 payments from Strike, our initial integration only supports a basic Offer payment flow. However, it paves the way for exciting and more advanced BOLT 12 features over time."
noStrudel v0.40.0: Encrypted NSec, Blossom Uploads, Wasm Relay, Blindspot Feeds & More "After 7 months of work and procrastination I’ve decided to release another version of noStrudel. I fixed a few bugs and its probably got a few new ones, but most importantly its got a ton of new features," announced @hzrd149.
Core Lightning v24.08: 'Steel Backed-up Channels' "We extend our heartfelt thanks to the 21 contributors who made the v24.08 release possible with their 378 commits since the last update. Your commitment to enhancing CLN is invaluable, and we are grateful for your ongoing support."
Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review - Report - "Our goal here is to do an overview of all these proposals, figure out what technical patterns they share, figure out what kinds of new opcodes and other soft fork upgrades they need to function, and create a comparison table of how all the parts fit together." - "Along the way we’ll also define what an L2 protocol actually is, what kind of scaling Lightning is already capable of, and get an understanding of what improvements we need to do to mempools to achieve all this."
⌛Block 859417: Important News of the Week Here goes another week. No Bullshit Bitcoin raised a total of 479,438 sats (~$278) in August, which is below what we've seen in recent months. The project raised 878,991 sats (~$512) in June and 690,106 sats (~$402) in July. These were the best months this year so far. We've seen a notable uptick in our newsletter subscribers since the launch of GM Report, and Nostr has grown to be our biggest social media channel. Our fundraising campaign that we launched in June with a goal of raising 1 BTC to become a fully-fledged news desk seems to have run out of steam, but we're not ready to hang up our sneakers just yet. Remaining a publication operating solely on the Bitcoin standard is of critical importance to our reporting. No-strings-attached donations allow us to remain impartial and focus on serving the reader. Until the end of the year, we'll be looking into additional support for the project, as well as how to involve more people, including contributors. Huge shoutout to our top supporters. Onward 🫡
Bull Bitcoin Announces Launch in France, Mobile Wallet v0.3.0 Released "Our mission is to equip you with the tools to reclaim your freedom and sovereignty. It started more than 10 years ago in Canada, continued in Costa Rica, and now we open a new chapter in our fight against central bankers, alongside the French people."
Judge Orders X Ban in Brazil, Threatens People Accessing X via VPN with $8,874 Daily Fine Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered internet providers and app stores to block X within five days, and the platform will stay blocked until it complies. Users or companies accessing X via virtual private networks (VPNs) will face daily fines of 50,000 reais (~$8,874).