Steve @[email protected]

YIKES 😬
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RT @GordonGChang
If #Beijing mishandles #Evergrande, don’t be surprised if #WallStreet tells us we need to rescue #China, to prevent contagion spreading from there to #America and global markets. A rescue would be both a strategic mistake and a moral failure—as well as unlikely to succeed.
https://twitter.com/GordonGChang/status/1434990651503005696

v0.9.0 - Support for Bitcoin Core backends, more sanity checks and bugfixes.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.8.0...v0.9.0

v0.10.0 - Adds AnyBlockchain support for the Bitcoin Core RPC blockchain client, a new ureq based esplora blockchain client feature, and improved wallet drain_to support.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.9.0...v0.10.0

v0.11.0 - Adds the flush function to the Database trait to explicitly flush to disk the latest changes on the db that caches blockchain data.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/compare/v0.10.0...v0.11.0

🚨 We have been remiss in announcing our regularly scheduled (~6 week) BDK releases! here's a catch-up toot thread so you know what you've been missing since our last tweet about 0.6.0:

v0.7.0 - Improved APIs, a more robust signing process and various bugfixes and improvements.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v070---v060

v0.8.0 - New APIs and other minor bugfixes and internal improvements.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v080---v070

PSA - A hacker is selling 30 million social security numbers & driver licenses of T-mobile customers.

Bitcoiners using T-Mobile are at risk of being SIM swapped. Hold your #bitcoin in cold storage. 👏

Vintage Computer Festival West is This Weekend https://hackaday.com/2021/08/05/vintage-computer-festival-west-is-this-weekend/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1423305669592207366

SLP292 @achow101 Output Script Descriptors for #Bitcoin

Andrew and I chat:
- seeds
- sometimes you need more than just keys
- industry approach vs Core approach
- backups
- output descriptors approach
- lightning
- taproot
- miniscript

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/292/

This is really interesting stuff
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RT @lopp
Very interesting research from Rene Pickhardt that concludes the base fees for routing lightning payments add too much complexity to pathfinding and by removing them we can make more effective use of multipath payments.

https://twitter.com/renepickhardt/status/1414895844889960450
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1414936494033313797

"we're going to try bring Arti to a production-quality client implementation over the next year and a half"

"Eventually, once our Rust implementation of Tor is a good replacement for our C implementation, we will stop adding new features to the C implementation, and eventually drop support for it entirely."

https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti

#Tor is being rewritten in #Rust 😀

Or you can donate directly here:
https://freeross.org/donate/

President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele: "Next week I will send to congress a bill that will make #bitcoin a legal tender."

Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/02/stack-overflow-acquired-by-prosus-for-a-reported-1-8-billion/