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philip retweeted
The fact that @ocean_mining mined a “regular” block is a great thing.
It shows that the miners decide and control the templates and NOT the pool. That’s what it’s about and why I like it.
Decentralized mining, that should be celebrated imo.
philip retweeted
BULL is immediately shifting our priorities to resume the ability of BULL wallet users send receive Bitcoin payments over Lightning, as well as move funds between Liquid and Bitcoin. We are evaluating multiple options and are beginning the work right now.
Ae have been in constant contact with our very good friends at Boltz for years. We have been, and are right now, collaborating closely with their team. They are my brothers in arms and I fully support their decision to suspend their service.
Let me be clear: Bull Bitcoin is a member of the Liquid federation and can convert LBTC to BTC without a 3rs party. No BULL wallet user will have funds "stuck" on Liquid, that I can guarantee.
Our immediate action plans are all targeting the same goal: BULL wallet users will carry on sending and receiving Lightning payments and perform swaps between Liquid and Bitcoin. The only question are implementation details. We will figure it out.
Until a solution is implemented, Lightning payments and Liquid <> Bitcoin swaps in the wallet will be fail without explanation.
I will not let this situation linger. I will fix it, no matter what it takes. I will be buying my grocies with Lightning over the BULL wallet as soon as possible.
I won't lie to you, the situation seems pretty bleak. First, the Coldcard exploit. Now, a critical piece of Lightning infrastructure goes offline. We are undoubtedly on the losing end of the Token War. Attackers have been scoring major victories.
We are going to fight back. We will never surrender. I apologize for not giving more details. I have work to do.
Update: Boltz will stay disabled until further notice.
Our API remains available to process refunds cooperatively. In any case, unilateral refunds will work, as they do not depend on our infrastructure.
Our support team stays reachable.
To be clear: this is not a response to a single incident. Over the past months we have seen a steady rise in automated, AI-assisted probing of our infrastructure, and we have dealt with several exploits. Each was contained, but the pattern is clear: attackers now iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch. In the past few days alone we saw a drastic acceleration, and we do not believe this asymmetry will reverse. After reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.
What we are seeing is a major paradigm shift for Bitcoin services operating on an open source stack, and it needs careful analysis. Do not expect swap services to resume shortly.
To be explicit: no user funds were ever at risk. Boltz is non-custodial by design. And as a fully bootstrapped company, the losses were ours alone.
We don't know yet how things will continue from here, but we'll keep you posted as soon as we have had the time to catch our breath and make a decision 🙏
philip retweeted
Rod if you have people that need help, just let myself and @theBTCmentor know. We've got a team of 9 of us working with anyone that is trying to migrate funds. Everyone's working for free - just trying to get through as many people as possible.
my btc is safe for now, but not in a place where I feel good about. Any recommendations about vendor, setup, way of creating the seed (which kind of dice) etc. @BTCsessions ? Thanks !
it's currently confusing and overwhelming . I think @COLDCARDwallet is out of the question now
philip retweeted
Unless @Apple's decision to terminate @craigraw's Apple Developer account is reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow will fail, and development on macOS will end. If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport
My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity".
Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.
The context: since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on the App Store, as recently as April this year. Users have contacted me after losing their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators.
I'm the developer of the real Sparrow Wallet, a desktop app, and I hold the registered US trademarks for the name and logo. I have publicly warned @Apple and the community about these fake apps from early 2024, but they keep appearing.
The app @Apple flagged was a placeholder that was never published. Its only purpose was to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and that other "Sparrow" apps aren't mine. This approach may have been misguided, but there was nothing dishonest about it.
I'm confident this is an automated misclassification that Apple would reverse on review - but I may be terminated before a human ever looks at my appeal. The cost would fall on @Apple's own users: blocked installs and no updates for a tool people rely on, which opens the door for more fakes.
If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport
philip retweeted
The home of Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen was raided by masked police forces after he published his 'two favourite numbers', a 10 digit and a 8 digit number, spelled out in letters; it were the social security and phone number of Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, who wants to ban encryption (CSA) and introduce mass surveillance.
"Rules for thee, but not for me..."
philip retweeted
On day before my talk @BTCPrague on the Fabians inside the Gates I was asked by Natalie Brunell to do a podcast with her. At the end of it she asked me what I was going to do and say. I told her to come to the talk and hear it live.
During the podcast she asked me was this an existential challenge to Bitcoin. I told her I would answer that in my talk.
I was just informed that after my presentation at @BTCPrague Natalie wants to censor my podcast and not release it. I believe all the Plebs should be made aware of this development.
Bitcoin media should not be in the business of sheltering their wedding guests from criticisms. Sunshine is the best disinfectant for the the node running Plebs around the globe.
So in the first every Bitcoin morbidity & mortality conference in Prague, where I labeled 5 of 6 "Bitcoiners," and I use that term lightly, FRAUDS, Natalie Brunell has decided to censor what I told her 24 hours before that talk. Ironically, her team never reached out to me, she relayed the message to the meeting organizers who contacted me this AM about this.
For those of you who did not go to Prague, from the stage Natalie got a big call out on her question from the stage to me about the "existential Bitcoin Landauer attack" brought about by those "6 Bitcoiners". When the talk goes live you'll hear it and she'll have to explain her reasoning to you. For me, she has lost all face validity as Bitcoin media.
I have a clean copy of the Prague talk, so if it gets edited I will be releasing it, FYI. I was wearing my own mic. I knew this talk would be censored in some way so I was ready for it. 7 of my slides also never got shown. I have been reasured that this was a technical issue, so I will not say more about it. Plebs should be away that the media heads inside of Bitcoin are also working with Fabians attempting to ossify the base chain of Bitcoin with spam.
We all must be aware that we have a Trojan horse loaded with people we should no longer trust at our gates, and I strongly suggest we not open the door before we employ BIP-110 to limit the pathologic cloud surrounding them at the entrance.
The primary purpose of Bitcoin media regarding transparency is to hold power to account, foster an informed citizenry, and maintain public trust through clear disclosures and open communication. The media facilitates transparency in two distinct ways: the media’s transparency toward the public and the media acting as an agent of transparency for society.
To combat misinformation and build trust, media & their associated organizations apply transparency to their own operations by employing the following:
1. Editorial Clarity: Distinguishing facts from opinions and explaining reporting methods.
Funding & Ownership Disclosure: Revealing financial backers, corporate ownership, and potential conflicts of interest so audiences can weigh potential biases.
Radical Transparency: Openly revealing how news is gathered to let audiences independently assess the reliability of a story.
As far as I am concerned, based on those three characteristics, Brunell is now part of the same problem now because of this censorship. I spread missing information that Plebs who run nodes need. I find it more than ironic her first released podcast was with a past wedding guest. Is the ethos in Bitcoin, "Don't Trust, verify, or do certain Bitcoiner's get a pass now? Apparently Bitcoin is not for everyone as Brunell's twitter page says in the header. It is just for those who she protects. @mattkratter @LukeDashjr @hodlonaut @BitcoinWay
philip retweeted
🇪🇺 And to celebrate Europe Day, we’re bringing to you an awesome central bank digital currency.
You’re going to love it.
We just beta tested all the freeze functions with Tether in the US.
It works perfectly with your digital ID and soon it will be integrated into your social credit score.
You will own nothing unless you make the ECB algorithm happy. 💰
philip retweeted
MicroSD 2FA on the COLDCARD adds a physical second factor.
Pair it to a specific microSD card and it won’t unlock without it, even with the correct PIN.
No card or wrong card = seed wiped.
We’re giving away an Mk5.
To enter: Like, repost, and comment why you want to win one.
philip retweeted
Share, if you think President Trump should pardon the Samourai Bitcoin wallet developers
philip retweeted
"What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year."
—Julian Assange
A delayed flight due to a moon mission was not on my bingo card. Didn’t hear anything about it ealier…
philip retweeted
kinda crazy that human beings spend like 5 hours a day on our phones and we think it’s normal
