Citadel Dispatch

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Citadel Dispatch episodes

October 14, 2022 Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022: FATF is a Threat to Bitcoin Privacy with Matt Odell, Patrick Hansen, Kevin Murcko and Sjors Provoost
Conversation on regulations and privacy at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, moderated by Stephan Livera.

Video Version

Other Panelists:
Patrick Hansen
Kevin Murcko
Sjors Provoost

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47 min
September 26, 2022 CD77: Privacy Focused Mobile Phone eSIMs Using Silent Link
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EPISODE: 77
BLOCK: 755816
PRICE: 5230 sats per dollar
TOPICS: using silent link, bitcoin only merchants, sourcing numbers, intentionally limiting the amount of info they have on their users, is it a honeypot?, chinese "great firewall" circumvention, use a VPN, understand the tradeoffs
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(04:23) Introduction to silent.link and its offering
(38:03) Discussion on the importance of using VPNs
(46:08) Appreciation for Specter Wallet and its DIY hardware wallet
48 min
September 22, 2022Bitcoin.Review E6: A Review of Updates to Popular Bitcoin Projects with NVK, Bitstein, and Pierre Rochard
Software Releases and Project Updates
00:01:41 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.7 - Sep 9, 2022 (bit.ly/3BClP0f)
00:05:56 Core Lightning v0.12.0 - Aug 24, 2022 (bit.ly/3S5lr1m)

00:12:43 Blockclock 1.2.0 - Sep 15, 2022 (bit.ly/3BxSILG)

00:13:34 Spectre desktop v1.12.0 - Aug 26, 2022 (bit.ly/3qSWBWK)

00:16:28 Joinmarket v0.9.7 - Aug 28, 2022 (bit.ly/3qWoH3f)

00:17:50 NPM package for SeedXOR. (bit.ly/3C8BOFb)

00:25:56 RoboSats on Umbrel (bit.ly/3fcjDFa)

00:27:19 Ledger adding miniscript (bit.ly/3UmX4xX)

00:29:16 Trezor & Wasabi Join Forces To Make Bitcoin More Private (bit.ly/3BXXJOV)

00:30:03 Fulcrum added to bitcoinbinary (bit.ly/3DK4xBc)

00:37:51 btcd v0.23.1-beta, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3Urjwpv)

00:38:04 Zeus v0.6.6, Aug 26 2022 (bit.ly/3f9vpjD)

00:39:24 Nunchuk implements bip21, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3BZWG14)

00:39:57 BISQ v1.9.5, Aug 22 2022 (bit.ly/3LyPrR5)

00:41:01 Fountain Podcasts v0.4.8 (bit.ly/3f1ZTnH)

01:33:44 ATEC608A NRND (bit.ly/3xGWmBZ)

01:39:26 ETH merge (bit.ly/3SlgfWR)

01:51:21 Spiral - Private info retrieval block explorer (bit.ly/3BDto70)

01:56:03 US Treasury OFAC Releases Clarifications on Tornado Cash Sanctions (bit.ly/3S1PEyl)

01:57:05 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format (bit.ly/3Sj5c17)

02:00:51 STARK - Zero knowledge bitcoin blockchain state prover (bit.ly/3C0oT8b)

02:03:09 Mullvad VPN hardware device (bit.ly/3f9LV3p)
Noteworthy
00:53:47 BIPBounty: Tax Deductible Bitcoin Bug Bounties (bit.ly/3LMxP4l)

00:59:34 Fedimint grant season (bit.ly/3S32zjP)

01:00:00 Tether Holds Firm on Decision Not To Freeze Tornado Cash Addresses (bit.ly/3UwFgAg)

01:01:04 New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project “in Wolf’s Clothing” (bit.ly/3xHo1Ti)

01:01:49 Tadge Dryja joins Lightspark (https://bit.ly/3SoAZNG)

01:11:26 Shoutout, no bullshit bitcoin - (bit.ly/3DEqB05)

01:12:22 LN Explorer (bit.ly/3xIYF7k)

01:16:34 Ledger wallets now available at Best Buy (bit.ly/3BA10mr)
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter:
01:24:13 Bitcoin Core #23202 extends the psbtbumpfee RPC

01:25:08 Eclair #2387 adds support for fee bumping and signet

01:25:27 LDK #1652 updates support for onion messages w/ ability to send reply paths and decode them when received

01:25:36 HWI #627 adds support for P2TR keypath spends using the BitBox02 hardware signing device

01:33:22 BDK begins verifying both ECDSA and schnorr signatures immediately after the wallet creates them
02:18:00 Events:
OsloPlebs

Austin Bitcoin Design Club

BitBlockBoom

Baltic Honeybadger

BTCAzores

Bitcoin Amsterdam

The Bitcoin Collective

Atlanta Bitcoin Conf

Adopting Bitcoin

Unconfiscatable

Africa Bitcoin Conf
2 hr 25 min
September 19, 2022 CD76: DEBATE: Are the tradeoffs of Samourai Wallet's light client mode a benefit to users?
Different format than usual. This is a debate between Zelko and Mechanic with myself as moderator. We will return to our typical format next dispatch.

EPISODE: 76
BLOCK: 754840
PRICE: 5171 sats per dollar
DEBATE: Are the tradeoffs of Samourai Wallet's light client mode a benefit to users?

Zelko on Twitter
Mechanic on Twitter

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2 hr 42 min
September 07, 2022 CD75: Privacy, Speech, and Bitcoin with Adam Back
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EPISODE: 75
BLOCK: 753062
PRICE: 5258 sats per dollar
TOPICS: tornado cash sanctions, crypto wars of the 90s, code is speech, anonymous contributors, liquid, fedimints, confidential transactions, mining

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(00:01:15) Introduction and funding of the podcast
(00:03:01) Ways to support the podcast
(00:04:18) Discussion about the Baltic Honey Badger conference
(00:56:43) Confidential transactions and their implementation
(00:57:51) CT implemented using simplicity and script size
(00:58:46) Fees for using confidential transactions
(01:00:13) Timeline for implementing simplicity and confidential transactions
(01:01:30) Bitcoin's resistance to change and the need for overwhelming support
(01:03:26) Federated Chaumian mint (Fedimint) and its potential
(01:06:44) Interoperability of Fedimint with lightning and liquid
(01:18:58) Blockstream's focus on mining and the acquisition of Spondoolies
(01:22:59) Estimating the percentage of energy consumption dedicated to Bitcoin mining in 50 years
1 hr 33 min
September 02, 2022Bitcoin.Review E5: Bitcoin Hardware Wallets Roundtable
NVK and I are joined by Ledger CTO, Charles Guillemet, independent security researcher, Lazy Ninja, and Sparrow maintainer, Craig Raw to discuss bitcoin wallets.
45:22 Support requests

01:03:12 Noob vs advanced user features

01:06:42 Most common attack vectors

01:11:32 Backup and seeds

01:12:29 Seedless multisig setups

01:21:49 Single sig passphrases

01:26:30 Security tradeoffs and considerations

01:31:41 Air gapped PC vs hardware wallets

01:40:28 SD card vs USB connection

01:48:26 BIPs and standards

01:49:16 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format

01:58:146 The BIP process

02:03:42 TAPSGINER design and security tradeoffs

02:19:25 Squares new hardware wallet

02:40:00 Defending against government attacks
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2 hr 45 min
September 01, 2022 BitBlockBoom 2022: Jack Mallers and Grant Gilliam
I was joined by Jack Mallers of Strike and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 on stage at BitBlockBoom 2022 in Dallas. Apologies for the sound quality, they had some technical issues on their side.

Video: https://youtu.be/qHjgYsZfHDQ

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32 min
August 29, 2022 Bitcoin.Review E4: A Review of Updates to Popular Bitcoin Projects with NVK and Justin Moon
show notes: https://github.com/nvk/bitcoin.review.episodes/blob/main/2022-08-22-Episode-04.md

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1 hr 59 min
August 22, 2022 Bitcoin Magazine Live Interview: "The Optimistic Take on Bitcoin with Odell"
Had the pleasure of joining P & Q from Bitcoin Magazine on their show. We ripped it in person in my studio.

Video Version: https://youtu.be/gpWEyyS7bKo

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2 hr 8 min
August 12, 2022 CD74: Code, Nyms, and Life with @r0ckstardev
EPISODE: 74
BLOCK: 749169
PRICE: 4140 sats per dollar
TOPICS: digital identities, privacy is not secrecy, freedom requires privacy, the end of the rockstardev identity

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1 hr 41 min