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Looking for a more private way to chat? Start with what you need: everyday conversations, no phone-number signup, or nearby messaging without internet. Our guide compares Signal, White Noise, SimpleX, Briar and Bitchat—and their limits. cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

Such an informative interview: worth a watch, great explaining youtube.com/watch?v=5REqKotk…

When a project says "post-quantum", ask which layer. Transport, stored data, payments and release signing can each have a different quantum story. Autonomi's docs are precise enough to check them one by one. The layer-by-layer read: cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

BIP 353 says clients MUST validate DNSSEC to the root and MUST NOT trust a remote resolver to do it for them. That's the line between a name your wallet verifies and a name a server answers for. Lightning Addresses vs ₿-names: cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

Bitcoin Core v31.2, v30.4 and v29.5 are maintenance releases. They backport v32.1's fixes to older branches. If you run an older line, read its own release notes rather than assuming the newest one covers you. This week's release radar: cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

Moonshot published the open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro. It is a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model (about 104 billion active per token), natively multimodal, with a one-million-token context and strong self-reported coding/agent numbers. The download is roughly 1.5 TB, so most people will still hit the API or hosted endpoints for now, but the weights are public for anyone who wants to inspect or self-host. Curious what independent runs show once people get it going. More plain-language explainers and local tooling notes at cryptodecentral.co.za. huggingface.co/moonshotai/Ki…

Post-quantum where? Autonomi's transport uses ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA-65 with no classical fallback. Stored chunks use ChaCha20-Poly1305. Upload payments are signed with ECDSA on Arbitrum, the kind Shor's algorithm targets. One label, several layers. cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

A Lightning Address is a pointer, not a key. Every payment asks a live web server for an invoice. That server picks the node and sees the payer's IP. A BIP 353 name is a DNSSEC-signed record your wallet validates to the root itself. cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

LND shipped security releases v0.21.6-beta and v0.20.7-beta on 31 Oct. They mitigate CVE-2026-98432, a Linux kernel TCP use-after-free. The demonstrated exploit needs a Multipath TCP listener, so lnd no longer opens one. This week's radar: cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

Lightning Labs’ Wavelength toolkit is live on mainnet, letting AI agents (and ordinary apps) hold and spend self-custodial sats over Lightning without running a node, opening channels, or managing liquidity—agents can pay for an API call or data feed on the spot via L402. Curious how far machine-to-machine payments actually go once the tools are this simple. For plain education on non-custodial tools across privacy money, Nostr, and local AI, see cryptodecentral.co.za. lightning.engineering/posts/… #lightning

Cashu’s Nutshell mint shipped 0.22.0 with BIP-39 mnemonic seed support so operators can back up mint keys more cleanly, plus in-memory response caching (Redis still optional), better Lightning melt handling, and a batch of security fixes. Not a drop-in upgrade—back up first and run the migration. github.com/cashubtc/nutshell… #bitcoin

Guardian Project just laid out Project Cider: a one-year plan to bring a real Tor Browser (Gecko engine, full patches) to iOS, riding the EU DMA’s allowance for alternative browser engines. Still early, but it would close a long-standing gap where iPhone users only get the weaker Onion Browser + Orbot workaround. guardianproject.info/2026/11… #privacy

BTCPay Server operators saw hot-wallet drains on old versions. The open-source Bitcoin payment processor reported thefts from servers still running 2.4.1 (July 2026) or earlier; the fix had shipped in 2.4.2 months before. If you self-host one, check the version at the bottom of the UI and treat anything older as potentially exposed—hot keys on an internet-facing box are a different risk than a hardware wallet. Official advisory: blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay…

Being allowed to message an agent shouldn't mean being allowed to change its rules. Agent Zero 2.15 fixed that hole on Telegram and WhatsApp with admin lists that default to nobody. Check who can change permissions, not just who can chat. cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/…

Lightning Labs opened Wavelength on mainnet for agents and apps. The toolkit lets AI agents (and ordinary apps) hold and spend self-custodial bitcoin over Lightning without running a node, opening channels, or managing liquidity—agents can pay for an API call or data feed on the spot via L402. lightning.engineering/posts/… For plain education on non-custodial tools across privacy money, Nostr, and local AI, see cryptodecentral.co.za. #lightning

Monero’s FCMP++ privacy upgrade is still on the testnet. Developers are replacing today’s ring of 16 decoys with full-chain membership proofs so a spend can prove membership in the entire set of eligible outputs (tens or hundreds of millions), plus a new addressing scheme called Carrot. It is running on a public stressnet with no official mainnet fork date yet; the project continues to prioritise audits and wallet readiness over a rushed activation. hotpaths.com/is-monero-trace… #monero

Mistral Large 4 (“Le Chonk”) open weights are out. Curious how far local models have come? Mistral published the weights for this ~1-trillion-parameter multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (about 49–52B active) under a modified-MIT licence that is mostly permissive for self-hosting and fine-tuning, but asks for a separate commercial deal if you offer it as a hosted service to others. A heavy quant can run on a single high-memory Apple Silicon box. local-ai.net/news/mistral-la… #localAI