Episode notes
AOB
- We are now a weekly show
- Topics
- Full screen video
- Admin tools
- Envoy 2.3.3
- KeyOS 1.4.0 beta3 (public release this week)
NEWS
- Core Lightning: A Critical Vulnerability, a Binary-Only Patch, and a Docker Pipeline That Broke Because of It -- Stacker News / Blockstream Blog / GitHub Release
- Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Mainnet Transaction (No Fork Required) -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Stacker News Ships Embedded Spark Wallet and Receive Proxy Toggle -- Stacker News
- SeedSigner Fork Adds Miniscript Support with Liana Bridge -- X/@UnruggableGG
- Roman Storm Retrial Pushed to April 2027 -- X/@rstormsf
- Coinbase and Better Mortgage Launch Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages -- Bitcoin Magazine
- HRF Awards 500 Million Sats to 16 Freedom Tech Projects Worldwide -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Kraken Users Locked Out After 12,000 Dust Transfers From Sanctioned HTX Wallets -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b Hardfork Goes Live as a "Mainnet Trial" -- CryptoSlate / GitHub PR #359 / The Bitcoin Manual explainer
- Peach Bitcoin Pauses Escrow Model After Swiss Regulator Reversal -- Peach Blog
RELEASES
Flint v1.0.3 -- 2026-08-28
- Security audit follow-up for Seth's BTCPay Server plugin. Strips macOS payloads from the build, pins the release path, and restores file permissions after dylib stripping. All artifacts are Sigstore-attested with no maintainer key required.
- Also in window: Flint v1.0.2 (2026-08-27) -- 23% smaller package, shared reconciliation scans reducing SDK calls for idle stores, cached Spark network status reads. Follows the v1.0.0 milestone which fixed a payment-hash association security issue.
- Envoy 2.3.3 -- 2026-08-27
- Point release improving Passport Prime pairing reliability with automatic retry and clock-drift tolerance. Also fixes a visual bug where seed verification puzzle words could overflow at high zoom, and removes a hardcoded Stripe test key.
- Sparrow Wallet 2.5.4 -- 2026-08-27
- Significant hardware wallet security hardening: mandatory anti-klepto on BitBox02, Ledger wallet policy re-registration on rejection, and serialised USB device access to prevent enumeration interrupting operations. Also improves BIP129/descriptor import validation and SLIP39 passphrase handling.
- Eclair v0.14.2 -- 2026-08-26
- ACINQ released Eclair v0.14.2 with fixes for bugs that "can be exploited by malicious nodes." The release also documents that bitcoind should run on the same machine as eclair or use a secure tunnel. Upgrade is "highly recommended."
- BTCPay Server v2.4.3 -- 2026-08-24
- Security release recommended for servers shared with many users. Release notes are minimal, stating only that updating is recommended. Published by NicolasDorier with a GPG-verified commit.
- BitBox02 Firmware 9.27.0 -- 2026-08-24
- Displays long transaction and swap amounts in full instead of truncating. Adds message signing for keys in the m/45' namespace and supports timestamp-based absolute locktimes. Stepped upgrade path required from older firmware versions.
- Blockstream Ships Jade 1.0.41 and Reflects on the Coldcard Fallout -- Blockstream Blog
- Published: 2026-08-25
- Blockstream released Jade firmware 1.0.41 alongside a blog post responding to the Coldcard RNG vulnerability. Jade is not affected (no degraded RNG fallback path, mixes multiple entropy sources through SHA512). Release is security hardening: runtime bumped to latest stable, increased stack protection, updated dependencies, audited sensitive-memory clearing. Not urgent but recommended. 1.0.42 on an expedited timeline for less serious reports. The post reveals dozens of AI-automated scans landed on Jade within days of the Coldcard disclosure, plus multiple human reviews. Credit to Spiral's Loupe tool and the Kvazar agentic harness.
- Arkade v0.9.16 -- Aug 2026
- Major security hardening and admin web console for the Ark protocol server.
- BasicSwap DEX v0.18.5 -- Aug 2026
- Bisq 1.10.7 -- Aug 2026
- Hotfix for corrupted DAO datastores. Continues the rapid Bisq 1 patch cycle from last episode (1.10.5 security update, 1.10.6 hotfix).
- Cashu CDK 0.18.0-rc.1 -- Aug 2026
- Release candidate with explicit payment confirmation, batch minting, and BOLT12 fix.
- Cashu TS v5.0.0-rc.8 -- Aug 2026
- Release candidate with crash-safe swap previews.
- Fedimint v0.12.0 "Second Nature" -- Aug 2026
- Named release of the federated ecash protocol.
- JoinMarket-NG 0.38.0 -- Aug 2026
- Quantized fees, zero-fee makers, and security hardening. Continues the rapid development from last episode's 0.37.0/0.37.1 releases.
- LND v0.21.3-beta.rc1 -- Aug 2026
- Release candidate. Also ships v0.20.4 RC for the older branch.
- Nunchuk Android 2.8.4 -- Aug 2026
- Bug fixes for the multisig wallet.
- Vexl 26.8.0 -- Aug 2026
- Update to the P2P no-KYC trading app.
- Wasabi Wallet v2.8.2 -- Aug 2026
- Coinjoin security patches and reorg sync fixes.
EDUCATION
- Deep Dive: Bitcoin's Quantum-Resistant Transaction Explained -- Sylvain Saurel / In Bitcoin We Trust
- Published: 2026-08-27
- Detailed technical explainer breaking down StarkWare's first quantum-resistant Bitcoin mainnet transaction (block 964,199). Covers how hash-based cryptography replaces ECDSA exposure, explains Shor's and Grover's algorithms, the mempool attack surface (public keys are exposed between broadcast and confirmation), and why the broader network remains vulnerable despite this milestone.
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(00:00:00) INTRO
(00:00:58) THANK YOU FOUNDATION
(00:01:45) THANK YOU CAKE WALLET
(00:02:48) Going Weekly & Four Chainsaws
(00:05:13) The New Website & Topic Archive
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