Next episode of The Bitcoin Cash Podcast will be live tomorrow (Sat) 13th June 15:00 UTC.
#184: BTC Catch Up Drinks feat. @Vladcostea, @SuperTestnet & @robin_linus
Response to Vlad's 8h stream, finding out about BTC projects, drama & view of BCH from the source. Plus alcohol.
San Juan BitDevs just got an upgrade, we’ve got two new organizers, @itsdonnyok & @SuperTestnet! 🥳
They’ll be leading the charge on Socratic Seminar #26 coming soon 🌴⚡
Bip110 is actively malicious software. I encourage devs to encode their opposition by writing a *good* URSF against it. Here is a starting point: github.com/supertestnet/ursf…
I also encourage node runners to review and run *good* URSF software (i.e. not mine)
x.com/i/status/2064392747755…
...might have done that because "well no one has told me they use it and I talk to lots of people" and (2) think that even if they DID use it, it's *their* fault for using it, so it's okay to break their addresses
This is malicious behavior, and the Bitcoin network will stop you
SECOND IS NOW ON MAINNET.
Bark, our implementation of the Ark protocol, is available for anyone to start making bitcoin payments.
Included in the launch are our mainnet Ark server, the Bark SDK, and multiple wallets to try from day one.
.@robin_linus is like this guy except instead of emulating techno music with a hurdy gurdy and a sewing machine, he emulates virtual machines on bitcoin with the find_delete function and boolean logic circuits
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mempool.space/signet/tx/3fd3…
That tx spends money from a Nunchuk wallet I made based on a sample miniscript policy they provide in their wallet. As you can see, it has OP_IF in its input script, and its keypath is disabled. BIP110 would break this address and others like it.
Reminder: Cake Wallet talks a big game about how privacy has to be default, but they gave user info to chain analysts, including a direct mapping of user ip addresses to their transactions: digilol.net/blog/chainanalys…
They *claim* it was an accident. And maybe it was. But maybe not.
No one just opts into privacy. It has to be the default.
Tomorrow on @ValidatedPod:
@Austin_Federa sits down with @SethForPrivacy from @CakeWallet to explore the UX decisions that finally made shielded transactions something normal users actually use.
Turn your notifications on. dropping s00n™️
To clarify: they did not send users to moneroworld *by default.* But they knew that server might be sending user data to spy nodes, and they included it in their server list anyway. Turned out, it *did* send user data to spy nodes if used. x.com/cakewallet/status/1519…
The last one - node.moneroworld.com:18089, will actually point you to a random community node, which could be malicious. You may run into issues using that one. We include it to support decentralization, but it's not the default node.
It's impossible for a minority to introduce new consensus rules because the majority can reject the new rules with an URSF. This is what you'd see if e.g. Peter Todd tried to activate demurrage.
There's no opposition to this SF though. Virtually all nodes are BIP-110 compatible.
"Reuse it forever. Zero privacy loss."
No. If you are a user of an anonymous service and reuse an SP address to receive payouts, that service can correlate your payouts and start building up a profile about you. Even with SP addresses, best privacy practice is not to reuse them.
🥷@craigraw just shipped Silent Payments receiving in Sparrow Wallet!
One Bitcoin address. Reuse it forever. Zero privacy loss.
This is one of the biggest privacy upgrades Bitcoin has had in years. Here's why it matters and what Silent Payments actually are. 🧵
Ocean is now a top 8 mining pool
- more miners are discovering how to make their own block templates
- and that Ocean pays out more than other pools, since it has lower admin fees
- plus they offer LN payouts
- and, for large miners, coinbase payouts
Virtual Private Node v0.4.2 is live.
Every time you create a Lightning invoice, you're revealing your node, your channels, and your UTXOs.
That era is over. Blinded paths now on by default. Your node stays hidden.
Also, payment routes now show node aliases and per-hop fees.
Yesterday after the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville, I found a group of 20 bitcoiners at a bar that doesn't accept bitcoin. I convinced 8 of them to join me in a mutiny and we all went to Steak n Shake. It was awesome. Hey merchants, when bitcoiners unite, we are mighty!
This October @SuperTestnet joins Plan ₿ Forum 2026 in Lugano (Oct 23–24).
Bitcoin open-source dev. Lightning experimenter. BitVM builder. Creator of Hedgehog.
Super Testnet turns wild Bitcoin ideas into working prototypes, from async payments to smarter contracts.
The testnet never sleeps. ⚡