Announcements

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Today’s MC: Leo

bitcoin-dev

• validation: use parallel input prevout fetching in TestBlockValidity
• Bitcoin Core CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash
• Generic signmessage
• TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind home NATs?
• Testnet5 proposed to deal with the issues of testnet4
• Testnet5 discussion
• Silent Payments: a hands-on guide to better Bitcoin privacy
• On the Lack of Replay Protection
• Bitcoin After Block Rewards
• Discussion: Bitcoin After Block Rewards
• The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing

lightning-dev

• Simple Taproot Channels merged into BOLT
• Rusty leaving Core Lightning

Optech

• LND: Zero-Timestamp Gossip DoS disclosure
• Bisq Protocol Exploit
• Bisq Security Incident Post-Mortem
• CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments
• Organised crime groups move billions through crypto, global financial crime watchdog warns

Bitcoinomics

• Michael Saylor’s Strategy sells 32 bitcoin for $2.5 million as total holdings drop to 843,706 BTC
• Bitcoin, Fiat, and Islamic Finance
• Maelstrom Bitcoin Grant Program Report
• Adam Back Lies About SPAC Collapse, Greg Maxwell’s Role in Chris Cook Origins

Network Data

• Zeus Lightning Economics Report
• Bitnodes is shutting down
• Blink Weekly Brief
• Forgotten Satoshi Nakamoto Emails Discovered

Mining

• Adam Back’s Blockstream Borrows Billions, Hides CIO Chris Cook’s Fraud Conviction. NYT Cheerleads while BSTR lists.
• B.C. bitcoin mine plans to transform into AI data centre, regional district says it is already thwarting bylaw

Regulatory

• Ottawa outlines plans to tackle financial crime, ban crypto ATMs
• Canada proposes ban on crypto ATMs as fraud cases mount
• Ottawa urged by industry to hit pause on plan to ban crypto ATMs
• Edmonton-based cryptocurrency company wants to work with feds on proposed ATM crackdown
• Mario Canseco: Many Canadians skeptical of cryptocurrency as support grows for a crypto ATM ban, poll says
• Canadians for Crypto Access
• Tell your MP: regulate crypto ATMs, do not ban them.

New Releases

• Hal Wallet by Adam Soltys
• Toggle between Bitcoin and Card payments at select Square Terminals
• LDK Server launched
• Lexe CLI
• SMS4SATS L402 Skill
• Lightning is live on NDAX
• Bitnodes relaunched
• Bark now on bitcoin mainnet
• Deposit to Polymarket over the Lightning Network
• Announcing Wavelength: Bitcoin on Easy Mode for Agents and Humans

Events and Podcasts

• Rusty Russell: Eleven Years of Lightning at Blockstream

Miscellaneous

• Vancouver’s crypto-anarchist collective is searching for a new home
• How Trump’s crypto venture and Iran’s top exchange tapped into the same industry networks
• Afroman Is Back and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter
• Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t