Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.19
This week Mart and Matt discuss:
– two LND vulnerabilities disclosed
– v0.9 and below [https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-October/002858.html]
– v0.10 and below [https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-October/002857.html]
– Paypal adds “bitcoin [https://www.reuters.com/article/paypal-cryptocurrency/paypal-to-allow-cryptocurrency-buying-selling-and-shopping-on-its-network-idUSL1N2HB14U]”
– Our boy Paul shills the corn again [https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1319264687733821441]
– coinbase transparency report [https://blog.coinbase.com/transparency-at-coinbase-c8edf6dce4d6]
– FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M [https://www.coindesk.com/fincen-fines-bitcoin-mixing-ceo-60m-in-landmark-crackdown-on-helix-coin-ninja]
– Travel rule white paper [https://www.gdf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/USTRWG-Travel-Rule-Solution-V1.pdf] & participants [https://www.gdf.io/members-directory/]
– BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8 [https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.0.5.8]
– Bisq v1.4.2 [https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.4.2]
– Phoenix v1.4.0 [https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/releases/tag/v1.4.0]
– Breez RC1 [https://medium.com/breez-technology/the-breez-release-candidate-getting-lightning-ready-for-the-global-takeover-b5d1f9756229]
– Tails v4.12 [https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.12/]
– Tor browser v10.0.2 [https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1002]
– Raspiblitz v1.6.1 [https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz#downloading-the-software]
– Sparrow v0.9.6 [https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/0.9.6]
– Voltage cloud lightning node service launched [https://getvoltage.io/blog/voltage-is-here.html]
– Hodl Hodl adds P2P bitcoin lending support [https://medium.com/hodl-hodl/lend-at-hodl-hodl-true-p2p-bitcoin-lending-is-here-114eaae534ac]
– BitMEX speeding up KYC process [https://blog.bitmex.com/accelerating-the-bitmex-user-verification-programme/]
– Bitcoin hit piece by CNAS [https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/financial-attacks-on-democracy]
– Thai authorities attempting to block access to telegram [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54598956]
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