Last Notes
Also thank you to Thomas for what can not have been an easy week
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Some thoughts on this ported over from the bird app. Not a crisis unless you are a submarine swapper. Even so, upgrade anyway
1/9 Electrum 4.8.1 contains “important security fixes”, but the maintainers have not yet disclosed the details. I reviewed the public 4.8.0→4.8.1 code changes. Here is what the evidence does—and does not—show. 🧵
2/9 First: Electrum-generated seeds are not shown to share the COLDCARD entropy flaw. Electrum’s seed-generation code did not change between 4.8.0 and 4.8.1; it uses Python’s cryptographic secrets.randbelow(), backed by the operating system’s CSPRNG.
3/9 The COLDCARD issue arose from a different mechanism: affected device-generated seeds could fall back to weak PRNG/reseed paths. Importing such a seed into Electrum cannot repair it. But an Electrum-generated seed is not weakened merely by later importing it into COLDCARD.
4/9 The critical question is where the seed was originally generated. Genuine Electrum + a normal, uncompromised OS: no analogous entropy defect found. Affected COLDCARD firmware: migrate the seed. Unknown origin: investigate, and take the conservative path if needed.
5/9 The BTCPay incident was separate: it exposed LND macaroon credentials in affected BTCPay deployments. Electrum’s built-in Lightning wallet is not LND and does not use those macaroons. This was not an Electrum seed-generation flaw.
6/9 Visible 4.8.1 hardening includes malicious-server resource limits, stricter network-response validation, CPU-DoS bounds, oversized base43 input limits, log redaction, Android screenshot protection, and Lightning/swap safety checks.
7/9 Our best inference: the undisclosed fix is the submarine-swap fund-safety cluster—funding without expected HTLCs, cancel/broadcast races, unsafe provider terms and refund-reorg timing. This is a code-based inference, not confirmation from Electrum’s maintainers.
8/9 Practical takeaway: upgrade to a verified Electrum 4.8.1 release before connected use. Do not rotate a genuinely Electrum-generated seed solely because of the COLDCARD incident. If the seed came from affected COLDCARD firmware, follow its migration guidance urgently.
9/9 It boils down to PR #10827, framed as a unit test but actually is the submarine swap flaw. If you are a lightning person (like us) take note. No issue with @ElectrumWallet doing it this way; there aren't many choices when it's all open spurce
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I need to scream into the void
Have fun playing with your worthless Bdash Siacoin mining algo bullshit. Bitcoin will still be here when you realize how badly you all fucked up.
abusers are not sorry. 🧘🏻♀️
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📰 **In this week's issue:**
**The $130 Million Question: Can We Trust Hardware Wallets?**
Rhodes
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You bought a hardware wallet because you trusted it. You did everything right—air-gapped, offline, "unhackable." Then on...
https://nostrmag.com/article/w33bitcoin02
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📰 **In this week's issue:**
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📰 **Wallet of Satoshi Review: The Lightning Wallet That’s Redefining “Simple”**
✍️ by NM team
Think you need to be a Bitcoin maxi to use the Lightning Network? Wallet of Satoshi processed over 28 million transactions since 2019—and it didn't get there by catering to crypto experts. It got there by being so simple that anyone can use it. But here's the tension that keeps me up at night: the very thing that makes it accessible—its custodial model—is also the thing that makes it controversial. So does convenience outweigh control, or is this wallet selling something that Bitcoiners shouldn't buy?
🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30bitcoin01
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Final thought if the evening…
Perception is not static within us. It's always changing as more info is gathered, more patterns emerge.
The carnival is frozen in their perception—one client, one chain, one price, one dream.
The bench is alive—watching, learning, adjusting, growing.
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If group 1 gets there way, group 2 will have to eat bugs to survive. They will go the way of the Neanderthal.
I wish I could say for sure exactly what is and isn't real friendship. Question weighs on me lately.
Niche internet subcultures bigger than Nostr #2
*Gen 1 pokemon modding*
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I must reiterate this part yet another time:
There's someone that makes my life bearable while hiding their own pain with a strength I can't imagine. You know who you are. We are in some ways pitted against each other by forces outside my control. I hope someday that will end, and I can give more back to you. You might not realize how much I hope that.
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Hi,sorry to bother you, I need help moving a heavy couch downstairs,in exchange for helping, I have two concert tickets for weekend,it’s free.
Sorry. Just universe reading today.
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The Final Fischer Lesson
"Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind."
The bench isn't crushing the carnival's machines.
We're crushing their certainty. Their narrative. Their belief that they were the only game in town.
And when that belief cracks?
Game over.
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I still can’t believe after all this, we lost him to a shitcoin.
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Luke and BIP110ers deny reality. It's sad to see.
You shouldn't zap at all, it promotes the use of lightning and therefore suppresses the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Also, fuck Primal, look what I've been through with them
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For thousands of generations, humans looked into an unobstructed night sky.
Today, approximately 46,200 human-made objects are tracked around Earth.
Beyond what we can reliably track, models estimate:
1.2 million pieces larger than 1 centimeter.
140 million pieces larger than 1 millimeter.
The stars still belong to everyone.
The machinery surrounding them does not.
Who is responsible for protecting humanity’s right to see the night sky?
#SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris #NightSky #Stargazers #Astronomy #SatellitePollution #KesslerSyndrome #SpaceSustainability #RightToTheNightSky #Nostr
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Adding 15 ios widgets to Farbound!
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The Board Today
· Carnival = Soviet-style centralization (ASICs, pools, exchanges, ETFs)
· Bench = Fischer's lone genius (distributed, patient, pattern-aware)
· The Game = Not speed. Not power. Position.
Fischer's 1972 win wasn't a blitz. It was a slow, relentless grind—and Spassky resigned not because he was checkmated, but because he saw there was no winning path left.
That's where the corp chain is right now. They just don't know it yet.
Fischer beat the Soviet chess machine—a system built on centralized control, brute force analysis, and institutional power—with one man, one board, and a deeper understanding of the game.
He didn't out-calculate them. He out-positioned them.
"They play for the win. I play for the truth."
Sound familiar?
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Much of it can just come down to ego. Upper echelons of scientific research are the opposite of what they should be. Ignorance through dogmatic arrogance. But could to see they're finally catching on here
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