The Big Freeze

Bitcoin is close to becoming worthless.

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Welcome back to the Bitcoin Brief, the show where me and q and a catch up every two weeks to talk about Bitcoin, privacy, open source, keeping your Bitcoin secure, and the news and software updates that matter.

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And we're live. We're live. We're back. We're back at HQ, ready to ready to grind again. Oh, yeah. How was the trip, mate? Truly, truly incredible. Euro trip, nine days, nine different countries, three almost 3,000 miles traveled in the car.

Four of my pals. Yeah. It was very, very good. A lot of work, a lot of driving. We have this, like, eight hours a day in the car, but I got to see some beautiful, beautiful places. Did France, Monaco, Italy, Austria, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland,

Belgium,

England, obviously. Yeah. It was a lot, but yeah. Two my highlights would be going over a mountain pass called the Stelvio Pass, which if you used to watch Top Gear back in the day. Italy?

It's that road. Yeah. Well, it's it's on the border between Italy and sorry. Yeah. It's in Northern Italy, not far from Austria. Right. That road is like, basically, just dug into the side of a massive mountain and it just hairpins itself all the way up or down, obviously, depending which way you're going.

Yeah. That was probably some of the most fun I've ever had in the car. Weirdly, even though the weather was great and it was a weekend that we got there, there was basically no traffic. So Oh. We can open the taps up a little bit. It was good fun.

Nice. And my other highlight was Lake Como in in Northern Italy. That was also one of the most beautiful and most scenic place I've ever had the joy of visiting as well. So all around great trip and, yeah, definitely, you know, trip of a lifetime, to be honest.

Very nice. How's the back? Because eight hours a day driving and anything is not normally great on the back, but in the sort of cars you'd be driving, I'd imagine. Might it might have a sore pullback.

Well, luckily for me, my car's got adjustable suspension, I can put it in granddad mode, and it softens it up a little bit. So that did take the edge off. On some of the longer days, like, I was very, very stiff getting out of the car after, like, ten hours. So it it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, to be honest.

Yeah. Good. Very nice and very and that's By the way, holy shit. I think we've got it bad. Jesus Christ. Worse? Yeah. Like, some of the some of the mount and I know it's in remote places, but, like, some of the mountain passes where we went and we dipped into Switzerland.

I think I filled up and, obviously, I'm I'm putting super leaded in my car because it's more on the performance end, obviously, with it being, you know, a a 500,000 pound Lamborghini. Yeah.

It's not, by the way. I'm sure I put some one of them was, like, €2.80 a liter. What's €2.80? It's like 250, is it? Something like that these days. Fucking hell. Okay. Wow. 50 expensive. Wow. That's really expensive.

Mhmm. It's been a long time since I've put super in anything. I'm always diesel, generally. But wow. I I I think, like, from my memory, maybe it was, like, one pound 50 or 80 or something like that a liter.

Not too big. Remember when I passed just after I passed my test, it was uproar because it went from, like, 99 p to a pound. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Fuelflation. Yeah. It'll get you, especially when you do 3,000 miles in a week.

How's things for you, mate? Yeah. Good, mate. Very good. Loads going on. Starting to try and spend some more time on ungovernable stuff now. Has, like, the most mental stuff is, at least for now, out the way. At least for, like, a few weeks, I should have a bit more time. So I'm starting to play around,

which we're gonna do later after recording as well, but starting to play around with ways to automate some of the stuff we gotta do for ungovernable, but without going, like, super gay and just, like, engagement farming bullshit stuff.

Yeah. I don't wanna, like, don't wanna go full slop. Never go full slop. I want to just automate the the first bits and create and clips and stuff and then so that I can review things and adjust things where needed. But

just trying to I sent this to Jordan the other day. Was like, we put the best content out in the whole world. Like, no one does it better than us. We're the best in the world. Big pat on the back. And I just want it to be seen more. So that's what I'm now focusing on is, like, how do we tweak, play around, and play the game without being

complete pricks about it. So that's the game. So if anyone has any ideas, you can let us know, but I'm I'm on that train at the moment. Okay. Interesting. Looking forward to it. Looking

forward to helping out. I know we're gonna have a bit of a chat about some things coming down the pipe very soon. Yeah. I'm looking forward to sharing that, actually. Mhmm. Getting out in the wild.

I believe oh, I haven't had a chance to catch up with free inside Friday. Well, both free inside Fridays while I was off. So I'm looking forward to to catching up on the the Zach one, I believe. Seth binged you both off, did he?

Absolutely ridiculous guy. I mean, just, you know, better things to do. Just flying around the world. To be fair, he was probably on stage talking about freedom, so we can let him off for that one. We can. We can indeed.

Yeah. I think he would have been I think it isn't at the Oslo Freedom Forum or was. I think he was I think he was going to the Oslo Freedom Forum, and I'm pretty sure he was speaking there.

And so we can forgive him that one. But it was nice, actually. It was it was nice just to go through things on the health side, on stuff that, like, I actually wanna implement anyway. Mhmm. And, I mean, you know, Zaki sort of goes pretty crazy into things.

Oh, yes. So

we talked about like, the main thing was about how in your you can make changes to your home that can massively help you with your health. So, like, air, water, light were, like, the main themes there.

And and then we also got into, like, DNA tests and blood tests and, like, how to use that information in a way that doesn't completely kill your privacy, but can massively help you.

Because you sort of, like, then you're not shooting in the dark. Because otherwise, it's like, yeah, you should probably maybe take these sort of supplements. The average person sort of takes these, and they're kind of good. It's like Mhmm. You can look at it and go, no. I exactly need this in this quantity,

and I definitely don't want that. And, like, you can fine tune things. So, yeah, definitely to work from that one with some ideas. Did did you mention incandescent bulbs? I know he's a bit of a a maximalist over in that camp. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with him, though. I'm I I really am with him on that one. I

fucking hate the bright white lights. Any anytime I'm around them, I get extremely stressed. I fucking hate it. So I'm with him on that. Very good. Well, while we're talking Zach slash foundation, have you seen the new website?

I'm gonna say yes because foundation sponsor me, and therefore, I feel that I should say yes. But just for everyone, it's actually a lie. I've not seen it. Go go and load it. Have a look. I wanna hear your life thoughts. Same same URL.

Take command of your life. Nice. Oh, and then I move my mouse around and this loads. Okay. Very nice. Very nice. Oh, you scroll it's very like Apple sort of scroll down. Yeah. All the things change. Oh, in the right fanboy, can't you? Apple fanboy.

Oh, that's very nice. That's very nice. The the only the only little problem I have is the glitchiness at the beginning, and that's probably my end to that. But when it first loads, the actual phone movement is glitchy. So that's the only negative phone. You know what I mean? The the the the hardware

device that you sell likely your Northwell connection. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's that, but, yeah, it's fucking really, really smart. Can I go out on a limb here and say that some AI has been involved in making this? Oh, heavily. Yeah. Yeah. We did most of it internally.

Wow. And can I go out on another limb here and say that you were heavily involved? Not really. No. I've done little bits behind the scenes, but most of this has been other members of the team. I can't take much credit for this.

Or do you know what I like? Whichever member of the team did this thing where you go choose authority,

and then it has the foundation logo, and then you scroll a little bit further, and it just starts to spread across the page, and then you start to see the image within it as you scroll down. That's really nice. Whoever's done that, well done. You can keep your job.

Yeah. Do you know the the vid when it loads that video after you zoom into the triangle, do you think that guy looks like Chris Hemsworth? I can't unsee it now. Hold on. Let me load it again.

Yeah. He does a bit, actually. Yeah. It could be. He's the secret investor. Yeah.

Very nice. I I was gonna say, though, you only did a new website, like, a year ago or something, wasn't it? Yeah. It was more than that, but it it was to coincide with, like, the the kind of in stock Passport Prime sort of launch and us being more kind of single product focused with obviously Passport Court now no longer being being

with us. Rest may it rest in peace. Well, the website and the phone look very nice. So well done, team. You're gonna be getting a knock on the door from Zach if he caught it. So

what else have we got going on? Any any Bitcoin stuff happening? I've I've heard some rumblings that there are some interesting things happening in the Bitcoin world. It's been obviously, I've been completely out the loop for the best part of the whole of the two weeks since we last recorded, really.

So I'm I'm not I haven't had my finger on the pulse, so I have to do a bit more than usual research for this one. Mhmm. For reference, we are recording a day later than usual because of some cross wires between Max and I. So it's Tuesday, June 2, 1PM UK time.

It's actually the Canadians fault. It's actually the Canadians fault because Oh, really? I figured we might be able find a way to blame him.

Yeah. Well, I thought, oh, I can't remember if we'd said we're doing it or not. I don't think we are. I I feel like he's off, like, on holiday for the next, like, three to six months. So I'm not sure. And then I was speaking to that Canadian. He was like, yeah. Yeah. I don't think you were gonna be recording on the Monday.

And then I was like, oh, yeah. Well, I probably it, like, sort of, like, gave an extra little convince where I probably would have messaged you and say, just check them or not on or whatever. But I was like, no. I mean, if the Canadian says it, then it's definitely it's def it's, yeah, it's definitely right. So

and then I said said to everyone, oh, I'm not recording tomorrow because we got a billion guests at my house fucking just crawling all over the place. I was like, you don't actually have to fuck off early in the morning. You can just, like, you can just lurk around.

And then I saw the message from you, and I was like, oh, for fuck. So there's no way I can record now either. So, yeah, a day late, live again, which we've we've had some feedback on that saying that keep doing it live was the feedback. So Oh, really? Oh, good. Who was that from?

Can't remember. I'm too I'm too old and fucked to remember anything these days, but there was a few messages that came through. I think it was on Nostril or or on Twitter saying keep doing actually, it might be in the boost. It might even be in the boost. Can't remember. But someone said it. So I I kinda like the the raw

nature of it. It does make us kind of it does expose us as as the the drongos that we truly are, I guess, because we can't hide behind your eighteen hours of editing. You know, we're We we have some m's. We have some ah's.

We fumble a bit. We say stupid stuff, and it's just, you know, welcome to reality. Yeah. Alright. So let let's keep it to a tight tight hour if we can. First on the list, the US treasury has seized nearly 1,000,000,000 in Iran linked crypto as Tether freezes 344,000,000

USDT on Tron. Now riddle me this, how does that work? They've seized nearly 1,000,000,000 of Iran's crypto, but Tesla's frozen 344,000,000. I think one is, I guess, is total and the other is not maybe.

But You are. Yeah. One one will be the one will be the total and then the $3.44 will be part of that total. But Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Where's the where's the rest? Because, like, USDT and all these type of things, like, we know we say it all the time, like, yeah, it can be it can be frozen.

And that's, like, an obvious thing and, like, tap tap around, like, do better, guys. But if if it's on actual cryptocurrency where someone actually controls it, then it's a different thing. So I'm just wondering where the rest has been seized.

Yeah. So treasury secretary Scott Besant revealed that The US has seized roughly 1,000,000,000 in Iran linked cryptocurrency as part of a broader campaign to choke off Tehran's financial networks.

Yeah. So the the the largest single action came in late April when Tether confirmed that it froze 344,000,000 in USDT across two Tron blockchain addresses linked to the IRGC. After blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, who identified on chain patents consistent with known Iranian military wallets.

One held roughly 213,000,000, the other 131,000,000. It does beg a few questions this, doesn't it? Like, number one, why if you've got that much, why are you keeping it in one wallet? Number two, if you are a known enemy of most of the world governments, whether you agree with that or not, it's true.

Yeah. Why are you using a, let's be honest, a US controlled monetary system that is centralized and, you know, has clearly got history of freezing funds? Like, it just doesn't make any Yeah. Sense to me whatsoever.

It's like, okay. Yes. You're savvy enough to think, okay. Well, I'm at war with The US. I won't use the US dollar. Let me use a US controlled substitute of the US dollar that's also centrally controlled. Like, come on. There are two there are two options here.

And one is that the Iranian and every government is just fucking retarded, and they can't even just have a word with, like, their smart cousin or someone who, like, knows how to use a computer in some way

and just say, do you wanna just, like, make sure I don't lose this billion dollars? And they go, yeah. Just give me an afternoon. I could just, like, do some swaps and do some stuff and, like, it's fine. We'll we'll we'll, like, we'll buy one of these nice phones from foundation and, like, we'll we'll be cool.

They could either do that. It's either that, so it's retardation of government, or it's lies from government to make it look like a win, and it's actually completely fabricated bullshit. Yeah.

Yeah. I I think it's probably somewhere in the middle of retaliation, though. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's lies on yes. They are liars. I mean, that's not exactly a a stretch, is it? No. No. It is not. But that is such a huge amount of money. It's just like, oh, someone's in trouble.

Yeah. I mean, there are tangential to this, there is also reports that whoever's in control of the the Strait Of Hormones Hamus. Hamus? Yeah. Whatever it's called. That's right. I can never say it. Is that Iran? Mhmm. Is that Iran? Are they in control of that?

I think so. I I'll be honest and just say my knowledge of geography and my knowledge of the goings on in the world are zero. I do not open a paper or turn on the news or, like, I literally actively avoid any, on purpose, any of this shit, anything to do with war, anything like that because

I've got other things that I can focus on and try and, like, actually have control over. So I will just turn away. So I'm very ill informed. Yeah. Whoever it is that's in control, I'm pretty sure it's around. But I I'm the same as you, by the way. Don't kinda foolish.

They have advertising Bitcoin payments for safe passage, which I thought was was interesting. I did hear that. Yeah. Maybe this was maybe this was part of the the reason that they switched. They were like, actually, you know, we do need on central money. And it looks like they made the right decision. So, good job, guys.

That's that's very true. Yeah. Maybe it is. Well, yeah, let's see if they manage to seize anymore. Next on the list is an article from the guys over at The Rage. Oh, interesting. This one's by Shinobi. I didn't know he was working at The Rage now.

I just can't either. Article by Shinobi for The Rage, again, in the show notes, pointing fingers at the Mind in America Act and how it would potentially put the Bitcoin network at risk. And this is the first time I've heard of the the Mind in America Act of 2026.

Introduced by senators Cassidy and miss miss Loomis. It's the first US federal legislation to address bitcoin mining from a national security angle. And critics like Shinobi say that it comes with serious strings attached because let's be honest, what bill doesn't?

At its core, the bill creates a certification program for miners and mining pools. To get certified, operators must phase out hardware from foreign adversaries, primarily China, by 2030. Fucking good luck. They must all like, where are they gonna go? A block, I guess?

I can't think anywhere. Block, I think, is made in The US, I think. I think. I could John will John will tell me I'm wrong. It's been a long time since we've done the mining stuff, but pretty much, if you want to have mining equipment, it comes from China.

Yeah. Like, it it it just there's no real competition there whatsoever. Right. They must also disclose full ownership details and meet cybersecurity standards set by the secretary of commerce.

Importantly, the certification isn't required to mine in The US. But without it, miners lose access to government grants, loans, and significant and a significant perk, capital gains exemptions for selling Bitcoin directly to this US strategic Bitcoin reserve.

Wow. Right. Talk about carrot and stick. Wow. So this is where some of the concerns start, obviously. Shinobi's arguing that the financials incentives that I've just mentioned create basically a two tier mining ecosystem, which, let's be honest, we've kind of already got now, haven't we?

Yeah. We do, but this is this is like a a big step up from that. Like It's gonna further drive the divide, isn't it? Well, yeah, it's it it basically makes it impossible to keep up if you're if you're a, like, home miner or, like, a smaller miner because you don't have access to the cheap the cheap money. You don't have

the write offs that they're gonna have, and that is significant. I don't know I don't know what their cap gains percentage is there, but it's not gonna be small. It's gonna be, like, 20 or 25 or something percent, hasn't it? And so, like, you're you're at significant disadvantage.

Your rates are gonna be worse on electricity, all that stuff, and this just pushes it further. And so, you know, mining centralization is there's a lot of things that are talked about in Bitcoin that are posed as risks and that people flap around about on Twitter, which is just silly.

But mining centralization really is not that. Like, it really is a fucking problem. So I'm totally with Shanobi on this one. Like, that is a fucking terrible idea. Yeah. Yeah. Completely agree.

Yeah. We'll we'll see how that one unfolds. First one I've first time I've heard of actually was when I was doing the research for this this show. Yeah. Next on the list, we've got a core lightning denial of service disclosure that came out while I picked it up through Bitcoin, Optech.

Chandra Protap posted to Delvin Bitcoin disclosing a denial of service vulnerability discovered during a summer of Bitcoin twenty twenty five internship. The vulnerability affected Core Lightning nodes that accept incoming channels.

During the channel opening handshake, a remote peer sends a message containing the transaction ID of the proposed funding transaction. Core Lightning performed an assertion check requiring a non zero TXID.

When a peer sent an all zero TXID instead, the assertion failed that it was able to crash the node. Since any pair can initiate channel opening sorry, initiate a channel opening handshake and send the malicious message, this allowed a remote attacker to reliably crash any vulnerable node that accepted inbound channels.

This vulnerability was responsibly disclosed and discovered through fuzzing. And at this time, Rusty Russell has independently been working on a separate crash bug, and his fix incidentally resolved this vulnerability as well, And was fixed in version 26 o four, which is quite old, I believe. So if you're

on the latest, you're already protected. Has normally the way with these vulnerabilities. They kind of sit on them, wait for a couple of releases to go to go by so that the majority are already updated to to not give any attackers any ideas.

And oh, Max is saying that I've lost him. Hello?

Alright. Well, I'm just gonna crack on, and hopefully, Max is gonna join us again. Oh, here he is. Let me add him back in. Hello again. You're back. I don't know what happened there, mate.

No worries. Well, I think we got to the end of the the the the Optech disclosure vulnerability disclosure. Basically, if you're running Core Lightning, just make sure you're on twenty six point o four or later, which I'm sure you will be anyway.

Okay. Alright. Burak of Arc fame, the the guy who came in with the the Arc Pro protocol proposal. Yeah. As who seem to form of years and then it's just popped back out six days ago with a blog post on medium as always linked in the show notes called Introducing Cube.

So very complex, very technical as you would expect from somebody like Burak. It's another scaling solution. Basically, they bolt more stuff onto Bitcoin. I'll try and kind of summarize it as best that I can. But his using his own words, Cube is a Bitcoin native layer two that brings fully trustless,

during complete smart contract execution to Bitcoin without bridges, federations, trusted committees, or any changes to the existing Bitcoin protocol. It achieves this by fusing fusing two existing Bitcoin primitives, arc style timeout trees for virtualized ownership and unilateral exit, like you get an arc. And bitvm style disprovable

computation. This is for enforcing computation correctness on chain, basically doing complex shit and having it built into a transaction. It's basically doing complex shit and stuffs. So Yes. And think

yeah. Yeah. The result is a is a is a new primitive called a zero knowledge time locked contract, a zed k t l c, because that's what we need is more acronyms. An off chain virtual output that carries both redemption claim and the cryptographically challengeable computation assertion.

The engine that coordinates the transaction is never a custodian, it's purely an ordering layer. If it cheats, participants can prove it on Bitcoin and punish it. It also introduces KubeVM, a custom virtual machine built as an extended fork of Bitcoin script and the novel mechanism called shadowing

that bridges the gap between logic controlled smart contract balances and Bitcoin's key native ownership model. Now, I could go on and on because the blog post is like twenty five minutes long, which obviously I'm not gonna do. My my read of this is it's combining existing technologies.

Some of them more mature than others, like BitVM and ARC, to basically try and achieve Ethereum like functionality on Bitcoin. Again, very high level, but potentially without all of the drawbacks that comes with Ethereum.

Ultimately, are never gonna know if this is gonna work or if it's even gonna, you know, move off of a medium post and into the real world. Yeah. So early, like, it's literally six days old. So most good brains have not had chance to

kind of critique it or anything yet, but I thought it was, you know, it's an interesting proposal at best. And, you know, if it which I'm sure it won't do fully because most of these things always have some holes or some drawbacks or have to have little bits of them chopped off to make them actually function.

But, yeah, I thought it was interesting. I just want to watch for the for the future. Yeah. As I as I always say, we'll come back in ten years and see where it is.

Next on the list, news item from Bitcoin Magazine. An anonymous plaintiff seek legal title to 293,000,000,000 in dormant Bitcoin without holding any private keys. What a wrong A pseudonymous claimant called Noah Doe alongside two Wyoming LLCs has filed a lawsuit Doe?

Has filed a lawsuit. Be no Doe? Yeah. I've got no Doe, so I'm going after all the Bitcoin. So they filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court seeking recognition as the rightful owner of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses containing roughly 3,800,000 Bitcoin valued at about $293,000,000,000.

Interesting. So the case which we filed back in March, but it's only just come out oh, sorry. It was amended on May 1. Is believed to be the first attempt in US history to claim title under a, sorry, title to Bitcoin under a lost and found property statute.

The legal vehicle for this is, I believe, unique to me, which is obviously why they there. Basically, it's designed for tangible lost objects like a wallet found on the street or jewelry that's been left in a cab.

The law says that a finder who reports the lost property to police makes reasonable efforts to locate the owner and receives no response within a set period can eventually take legal title to the item.

Now, Max, what's the obvious comments I have here about this this article? There's gonna be like two main ones. One, I would say is like this is such a classic, like, fake Toshi two point o retardation.

And two would be if they did grant him access to the funds by some miracle and said, yeah. Alright. You can have it. It would be how how? Yes. Exactly.

Yeah. You can have them. Okay. Now what? Good luck. Yeah. Now there there has been I've seen some speculation on this one around the fact that this could potentially be somebody who's ahead of the game with Quantum.

That's a good point. And basically, the the assumption being that given enough time, everything's gonna get broken by Quantum.

If they've already state the claim and then there is functionality or or technology strong enough to regain access to these funds, then the law now says that they are their funds despite them not having any private keys.

That's actually a

massive, like, outsider, like, crazy accumulator type bet, but it's not a zero chance, is it? So whoever's rolling those dice, like like, they're they're rolling them big. They're just placing a fucking huge bet, which probably doesn't pay off. But Yeah. Yeah. It's not it's not zero, is it?

It's not zero. No. But it it could be a very crude play. Like, obviously, I don't agree with this because, you know, let's be honest, it's clearly not theirs because they haven't filed to say Yeah. Yeah. I had the private keys and I've lost them. They're just saying that I found them and

here is me trying to do what I you know, to to to stake a claim essentially. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, it's cunty, but, like, you gotta, in some way, respect the hustle of, like, that is a big play.

It's it's like It is. It's not a very nice one. It probably won't happen. Blah blah blah. But, like, it's that is some out the box thinking of, I really wanna be a fucking, like, billionaire.

Like, how the fuck am I gonna do this? Well, maybe.

Yeah. Next on the list, someone has just inscribed The US constitution onto the blockchain. An unknown actor has etched the full text of The US constitution onto the Bitcoin blockchain in an $83 transaction, permanently embedding it within the network.

Have no idea what the motives are here as to why you would wanna do this. I do. It's not like there's a singular copy of the the constitution. God, the Americans are gonna be shouting down at their phones. Yes. It is. It lives here. Like, I'm sure that's full copies or albeit there might be an official one.

But having one on the big firm blockchain in an up return, like, why? I get it. No. I get it. I get it. Well, someone might be concerned that history gets changed. And as things get digitized, it gets easier to change in a lot of ways. Like, you know, history can be rewritten.

Things can be banned. Books can get lost. Libraries can burn down. And there are parts of the constitution that are things that you and I would agree with and most listeners would agree with. And there's a lot of, like, freedom focused sovereign stuff in there, and a lot of that's been eroded over the years.

But if you were to think of, like, the place that if you really care about people seeing that in the future, where's one place where you cannot guarantee, but, like, almost guarantee that it would still be seen and accessible to anyone on the planet?

It's Bitcoin. And then for the sake of, like, $83, if that's something you really care about, there's not many things you can do with $83 to, like, make any change in the world. Like, that it's not the most stupid thing.

Yeah. Fair. I mean, people are inscribing fucking pictures of monkeys. So Exactly. Like, stupid shit. Like, that's not a stupid you know, the the The US constitution is actually an important thing. Like, it it actually like, I think it's pretty good most of it. And, you know, certainly certainly, like, was freedom focused and

sovereignty focused, wasn't it? It was. It was indeed. I think it's been infringed on. Oh, completely. But a lot recently. But Yeah. It's better than nothing, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's not a bad, like it's not a bad if if, like, things restarted and you have that document, It's not a terrible start.

It's like, it's a better start than most people would come up with. It's pretty pretty solid. Definitely. Definitely. Alright. So it was quite news week. Let's hit the boost, shall we? I'll kick this off.

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Not to my knowledge. Should we have? Well, I don't know. Like, I went on their website the other day because, obviously, they send in boost and they do lots of cool stuff. And I was like, oh, just have a little look. And so their website says, control your online privacy, prevent cyber attacks and doxing,

recover lost funds. Web web wipe removes your data from the web and helps secure your digital life. Auditing of your online presence, performing search destroy of vulnerabilities develop like, it's all stuff that I think, especially with AI,

is, like, important stuff and Yeah. Actually probably quite a good Freedom Tech Friday thing. Because it's something I think about a lot. I'm like, how much shit is there of mine just Oh, yeah. All over the place that's been leaked, whether it's a phone number or an email or an address or, you know, whatever it is. And then,

like, an old social profile or something, and it's like,

can someone tie, like, oh, you've said this over here. That's now illegal to say, and we've we have this number. But, you know, like, piecing all that together that would normally take, a team of investigators would never be done, so you're not worrying about it. Like Right. It's it's nothing for an AI.

So with this kind of stuff, I feel it's more and more important, especially for people like us who say things that are probably, like, not allowed to say that freedom is definitely gonna be a bad word, isn't it? So Mhmm.

Like, anyway, I just thought I'd mention it. Like, I've I don't know whether it's good or whatever, but they support the show, and I just thought I'd mention it. Well, Webbype, this is your open invitation to join us on Freedom Tech Friday if you want to. I know you're obviously a nim, but the the offer is there.

Yeah. Freedom Tech Friday or or any show, really. If if the live stuff isn't your bag, then, you know, we can always do a a confag or something like that. Sounds good. Yep. Over to you, mate.

Oh, yeah. Let me go back. I'm on the on the WebPoint website. Late stage Huddl, 6006 sats. Similar to Satoshi and Hal, we now know Max and Silas Thornbrook.

Good on you, Silas. Glad we both got to read one. Maybe we'll get to do it again if mine didn't suck too bad. He's, he's caught me out there. He's caught us out.

There's more. Is that? Ah, yeah. Okay. Q pronouncing the Appolite Court as Apple 8 Court K, gave me a good laugh during an otherwise black pill moment about how the long arm of the law doesn't care about you.

But you Brits crack me up. Keep up the good work, gents. Thank you, late stage, huddle. Yeah. Thank you, late stage, huddle. Do you say it? Apple app Apple app app Court. Apple Yeah. Okay.

Welder Ian, February said, Q's road trip sounds awesome. I can confirm it was epic. It does sound incredible. Bon says he sends 2,121 sats, and he says, looks like I waited too long to get my last boost in on time. So sending this one as soon as I finished the episode.

Max, don't forget New Zealand. Yeah. Small country, but also super gay. The no edits is fine. Ah, that's okay. That's whether that's fine comes from. I I skim read that earlier when I was prepping, and I didn't get the reference, but now I do.

Yeah. The new the new edits is fine. Yeah. New Zealand is extremely gay. It's a it's like a really cool place, nice people, amazing landscape, but their government is extremely gay, much like Australia.

Checking as anybody in New Zealand that listens to this show. Yeah. There definitely is. Yeah. I can. I've got a map of all the places that people listen. There's there's almost nowhere that people don't listen.

Really? It's like I'd like to listen to what to look at that map. Yeah. I can dig it out for you. I think, like, there's there's a few countries in Africa where people haven't listened, and there's a few Asian countries where people haven't listened.

But pretty much every country in the world listens. Okay. But then, actually, you have to question, is it every country in the world? Because are people using VPNs in obscure countries? And then so that actually, like, our audience is only America and The UK, and they're just everyone's running VPNs from, like, random places like Kenya.

Yeah. I'm gonna set my VPN to, like, Western Sahara and just see if it passes.

Yeah. And I think that all come I have to when we're doing our stuff, I'll dig it out. But it's pretty much because it, like, it maps up in colors of of where and then how many listeners. It's definitely US heavy.

Mhmm. Most listeners is US, and then we've got quite a lot in The UK. And then it spreads across, like, Australia or Australasia, Europe, and those areas. A lot in South America, actually, as well.

Nice. Big up the Spanish. Know why. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably gonna offend them, actually, calling them Spaniards, isn't it? Sorry, guys.

What'd you say then? South Americans? Is yeah. Is there a slang term for South Americans? I don't know. They speak Spanish, though. Most of them. Big up to you, Spanish speaking human beings.

We love you. That's very interesting. Freedom focused mindset. And the Portuguese ones. Because, obviously, that makes up, like, half of Yeah. South America. Yeah. That's true. Anyway, we digress. Open mic streamed 1,659 stats. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Shadowy super badger with 475 stats streamed. Thank you. Eric p p streamed 373 sats. Thank you. Mad Hatter with a 121 sats says sock puppet account for dot dot dot always ungovernable, Stay free.

Yeah. I think the stay free and the the middle finger is a bit of a giveaway there. You just outed yourself.

Finally a naughty. And finally, Nasty Gang streamed a 110 sats. Thank you, madam. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much. Do you know who's by the way. They they said it publicly on one of the NOSTA streams once. Okay.

My I think my favorite

name name at the moment is shadowy super badger. Every time that I see it, I always think, I really like that one. Shadowy super badger. So well done. You win this this week's Max's favorite name. Do you remember Smurfette?

Oh god. Who doesn't? Who doesn't? That was a title. It's very oh, god. Yeah. What was her name? Thought it was a smurf at. No. It was hash sluttet. No. There was a I'm sure there was an oh, yeah. Maybe a She was a little sexy smurf, and it was it was hash sluttet.

She was naughty. She was naughty. That was when home mining was really a thing, and and she was probably living life and enjoying it. And it made her a bit horny. And now with things as they are in the home mining world, she's she's dropped off the map, unfortunately. But you're out there and you're still listening. Hashtag.

Come back. Come back. Also, she was a big booster, and it it is a bear market. So Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Anyway, we we still we still dream of you, so come back. Thank you to everybody streaming and boosting in. We appreciate you as always. We do.

Right. After some online and offline feedback and the chat we had about releases, I didn't get any strong push backs and not reading all of the boring releases. They are very much still in the show notes verbatim. So if you wanna scroll through

Yeah. And see all of the latest and greatest, you know, bug fixes and somebody changes some text latest and greatest bug fix is. Yeah. Feel free to scroll through. But what I'm gonna do moving forward, unless I get any hard pushback from the young governables, is just go through it myself.

Highlight the ones that I think are cool or are worth talking about and just talk about those. So we have four to talk about this time around. The first one comes from the Eclair team. Eclair is the lightning implementation by Async, who are the team behind the Phoenix mobile wallet.

Well, many other things, but that's what they're most known for. So Eclair version zero point one four point zero has now been released a couple of weeks ago. This release contains the final version of channel splicing, Taproot channels, and zero fee commitments.

They've removed support for channels that don't use anchor outputs and to see the release notes for other instructions on how to properly close those out if needed. So the cool one here basically is it's just further cementing the the the kind of channel splicing into a big proportion of the lightning network.

Phoenix, the mobile the team was famous this one's to to implement splicing, which basically means that you can shrink or enlarge, for lack of a better term, your lightning channel or channels in a kind of very slick and easy way.

You know, if if you opened a that channel and then you then decided, oh, shit. I now need 2,000,000 sats worth of capacity. Instead of having to I've a new one. Yeah. Instead of having to I've having to close one and open a bigger one or add a second channel of a million sats in that example so that you don't have 2,000,000 sats total.

Splicing just lets you basically just do one transaction. It either shrinks it or makes it big based on what you do. And everything stays active. There's no channel downtime or anything like that. And obviously, it's better for privacy.

It's better for costs, and it's better for the Lightning Network as a whole. Mhmm. So this is containing basically the final spec version into the Eclair. So into the Eclair kind of implementation.

So you won't actually see any usability changes because it's been live. But they as I say, we're first to put rubber on the ground with this one. But it's good to see that it's finally kind of in a final or considered final, which is good.

Right. On the list, mister mister Rawls back at it. Spyro Wallet two point five point zero has been released. Loads of stuff in there as you would expect. They've removed the BISC broadcast source.

They have improved Tresor error handling, improved various other stuff, added additional fee rate sources so that you can choose from different ones. They've added different bit 32 derivation fallbacks when receiving signing node. But the headline part of the release is that they've added full support for silent payments

receiving wallets, including support for air gapped hardware wallet signers that support silent payments. Mhmm. Alongside that, obviously, because there is an additional scanning requirement for silent payments, they have also added in frigate.2140.dev as a silent payment capable public Electrum server,

and it is auto selected as it is required if obviously you start to use silent payments. Mhmm. Very cool. Nice to see mister Raw at the the forefront, and nice to see another wallet supporting silent payments, which takes us to a grand total of well, we're probably still less than five, but Sparrow What is it? Cake, Sparrow.

Cake, Sparrow that support sent receiving and sending. I think it's just Cake and Sparrow. Mhmm. Maybe bull Bitcoin, potentially. I might be speaking out of turn there, but it's not a lot. So the more the merrier, especially when you get a big heavy hit to like Sparrow Wallet, which let's be honest, probably,

you know, it's gotta be at least 20% of the wallet market if I was to just pluck a figure out my ass. What mean the wallet market just generally In terms of, like, if you if you split the amount of noncustodial wallets, like Bitcoin focused noncustodial wallets,

I'd be willing to make a safe bet that Spyro constitutes at least 20% of users. Yeah. I would say that's probably fair. So it's a big proportion of the user base. So, yeah, it's gonna open up silent payments receiving and sending for a lot of people, which is great. Mhmm. Very nice. And alongside that version 1.53,

also from Craig Craig Sparrow, from Craig Raw, is the frigate server, which is that exact server that is required for the scanning proportion of silent payments. Built by Craig initially as a proof of concept. Nobody picked up the mantle, he said, fuck you all. I'm gonna do it myself. And version 1.53 has now been released.

These added privacy preserving hourly aggregates of historical scan stats. You can recover locally generated server responses and other Electrum based fixes and improvements.

I don't think you can run this yet on anything like a start nine or an Umbrella. I'm Governables. If you know otherwise, please do let me know because I will be running one on either of those machines if and when it's ready.

Yep. Okay. Last one on the list, and this is a shameless self shill. C tool is back from the dead. Oh, nice. When I say back from the dead, it's been online this whole time. It just hasn't had any love. And with my my newfound AI powers, before I went away, I I thought, you know what? This deserves a bit of love. I went in

initially planning to just make it look a bit better and that turned into four or five evenings on and adding in, like, nine new features as well as a complete UI overhaul. So it's now much more approachable.

It hasn't got the stupid accordion layouts that it used to have, so you can actually see what's available. Like, you can see everything from basically first page load. I guess before I go into the features, I should set the scene for those of people that don't know what seed tool is. It's

basically, as the name suggests, a bit of a bitcoin seed slash wallet playground for you to basically just play around with different tools, standards. You can generate seeds. You can do pass phrases. You can do all that sort of stuff. It's not designed to be your wallet. It's designed to be an educational tool for you to

learn about the different Bitcoin wallet standards, how they interact with one another, play around, generate, throw away seeds very quickly with one click. Like, don't put your passport seed into this thing. It's not for that. Yeah. Yeah.

Can I I publish it as a static HTML file, you can go on to GitHub, which will be linked in the show notes? And you can download it onto Tails, and then you can run it on a an offline laptop if you want to and you wanna do real stuff. But I always do that if you're advanced and you know what you're doing.

But if you just wanna play around and learn, just go to my website bitcoiner.guide/seed, and you can see a a live version. Obviously, that's on my website. It's on a VPS. Don't put any real seeds that control any real funds in there. That's just an online kind of tool to play around with.

Yeah. Yes. Exactly. So it already had loads of stuff like you could generate bit 47 payment codes, you could play around with rolling dice to generate seeds and see how that works, that sort of stuff. And then all of the new features that have been added alongside the UI overhaul, Seed phrase recovery.

So you can have it fix typos, fill in missing words, unscramble the order of your seed words, convert hex binary indexes back to valid bit 39 words. Basically, you have like a part seed, can seed and you know one of your addresses,

you can give it give the tool what you have and it will do its best to kind of figure out what's missing until it finds a valid seed. That's extremely useful. Yes. Yeah. Now, obviously, for somebody to wanna use this, there probably needs to be money at stake. So again, I'll reiterate,

if you are using this to try and recover real funds, unless you're in a real panic, make sure you download the offline version and do it somewhere offline. Don't use the one on my website.

But if you wanna just play around, like, by all means, like, throw a curveball and give it a broken word and see if it can fix it for you just so you can see how it works. Yeah. And if you're really stuck and you're retarded like me and you worry about this sort of stuff and over worry and over panic on things,

maybe just speak to Q before you do anything. If it's like serious funds and it's like the the you know, your kids depend on you not fucking this up Right. Maybe reach out. Yeah. Definitely.

Next tool that was added is BIP three twenty nine wallet labels. So if you have a BIP three twenty nine wallet label file, like a JSON file that comes from, well, thankfully, most good wallets these days, Sparrow, Envoy, Nunchuck, all of the good ones, they allow you to export those in a standard format

so that you can then, you know, let's say you're moving from Nunchuk into Sparrow, you don't lose all of your years worth of labels and you can do that. You can kind of take them with you so that you're not kind of starting fresh with, you know, a 100 GTXOs and you've got no clue where they came from. Great standard.

I've just added it in here so that you can load like a demo file or you can load a real file and just see what all your labels are against which address, that sort of stuff. Next one is a lightning invoice decoder.

Works in the same way as all the existing ones does. You just paste in a lightning invoice and it will decode it for you or give you all the information when it was created, the amount, all that sort of stuff. Again, just an educational tool.

Next one is a very cool one, is a mini script lab. You can import or use, again, demo mini script policies to have them analyzed, to enumerate all of the different spend paths, the time locks that are in involved so that you can see, okay, with any given manuscript policy, what keys are involved,

which ones are active, which ones have gotta wait for x amount of blocks, that sort of stuff. So it really puts a visual layer on top of manuscript to try and bring it to life for people so that they can see, okay,

This key is green. That means I can use it now. This one's orange and there's a there's a label that says this one doesn't activate for another 2,000 blocks or something like that, which I thought is very cool because Miniscript is, again, I'm pretty bullish on Miniscript.

Me too. I just wanted to add that in there as well to kind of give a more visual layer to something that's, let's be honest, quite complex. Next one is a PSBT inspector. It does exactly what it says in the tin. You can just

throw a transaction file in there, and it will decode it in there and give you all of the information within that transaction, like your version, the network, the amounts, the outputs, the addresses, yada yada yada, all that sort of stuff.

Next one is BIP three five three DNS payment helper. So you can build a, you know, max at ungovernablemisfits.com style payment endpoint, and let's have it assembled to the the kind of bit three five three standard.

So you can you can pop it to your domain registrar. The idea here is that you can give it a silent payments address. You can give it your Bitcoin address, a a a Lightning address, so that anybody with a BIP three five three compatible wallet can type in, I want to pay max at ungovernable misfits dot com.

That resolves via the DNS layer through your domain, and then they can choose to pay via whatever you got available. Silent payments, fixed address, bit 47 payment code. I don't know if that's actually supported with bit three five three, but don't see why it wouldn't be.

Lightning invoice, that sort of stuff. So it's kind of like paying to an email address essentially, and you can with

Eccom as well. Yeah. Obviously, the the checking side of it needs you to be online. So there is certain aspects of this that you do need to be online. But obviously, with this aspect here, you're not dealing with private key, so there's less of an importance there.

But again, if you don't want it to be online, it doesn't need to be online. That's all. You just won't have that functionality that specific functionality, should I say. Yeah. Next one is sign sign and verify messages.

Again, Bitcoin standard, you can read signed messages, you can verify them just like you can in Sparrow. Next one is silent payment addresses. You can generate them from any given seed. You can compare them to a bit 47 pay name. You can generate send addresses given any other silent payment address.

And then I know I'm going on. So the last one is Shamir secret sharing. So you can take any given seed that you generate or import and have it split via the different Shimmer secret sharing schemes. So the Trezza one, the blockchain commons one that that we use at Foundation

so that you can kind of play around with splitting your seed into like m of n shares just again to see how that works. Do not I repeat, do not do it with real funds real seeds with real funds unless you're very advanced and you're you know how to take this tool offline.

Yeah. Tread carefully. Very cool though, mate. I'm glad to see you've built this out more, and the new UI looks really good. So well done, you and your little AI robot mate. The robot has now got its own robot or multiple robots, and the things they're doing are quite impressive.

Absolutely. I think that's the end of the list, mate. You got anything else to share? I don't think so. We said we're gonna keep this to a tight hour. We just literally hit the one hour mark.

So I think we can wrap it up. We did break our Freedom Tech Friday one hour rule, though, because you and Seth weren't there to tell me off. So me and Zach just went, fuck it. We're ungovernable, mate. We're not sticking to an hour. We did, an hour and a half. Oh, wow. Okay. Well does that feel?

Well, yeah, it makes sense because, obviously, the main reason that I jump off with a hard stop is to do work for foundation. Yeah. And the the the ramifications of not doing that fall with Zach. So if I wasn't around and Zach can't tell Zach off, so we can try to do what he wants.

Yeah. So we went we rambled for an hour. Actually, I don't think we rambled. I think it was a good show. An hour and a half was that one. So, yeah, we went over on that, but we don't have to on this. We can keep it to a tight hour.

Nothing else to report, I don't think. Awesome. Well, let's wrap it, and we'll see you again in two weeks, guys. Thank you for the boost. Thank you for the comments. Make sure to to share this with your friends and family and help us spread the word. Definitely do that. Alright. Speak to you soon. Peace.

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