megaptera

bitcoin

Meanwhile in the Mempool...

028559d218

devs

Codeberg.org - github alternative

Bitcoin in the bush - crypto mining brings power to rural areas

security

pwn.college - learn to hack

charts_and_numbers

Largest group of foreigners in each Latin American country

bief57

Crazy how many colombians went to Venezuela.

Politics_And_Law

IMF Approves $1.4b for El Salvador and "confines" Bukele's Bitcoin purchases

k00b

> [...] ensured that tax payments are made only in U.S. dollar [...]

This is the only thing you need to know about the whole text... 

econ

“Dead Horse Theory”

Not? I saw lot of "riding the dead horse" projects... 

This is quite sophisticated.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkuSHeEbcAAx8tk.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkuSHeDaQAAK8lv.jpg

Bybit Hack Forensics Report

Cryptocurrency APT Intelligence: Unveiling Lazarus Group’s Intrusion Techniques

lightning

According to different people the last release was quite an important one regarding some security issues.

Update asap.

PSA: LND Node runners: Update to 0.18.5 asap

mempool

EMPTY MEMPOOL? WHATS HAPPENING?

Longtermwizard

news

Tether Investments Announces Strategic Minority Stake in Juventus Football Club

🚀 LNbits v1.0 – Final Testing Phase!

I think because its the final testing phase before 1.0 release.

Message from Ben Arch

>5 years and 8.5k commits later and we are almost out of beta!
As we enter this final phase, we’ve set up a community testing server at v1.lnbits.com, where you can try out extensions and explore the latest updates, and help us identify and squish last few bugs.
If you’d like to run your own test instance so you can access all the amazing admin features, use the dev branch and share any feedback. Spin up a fresh instance for this, don't use your current installs.

Some small bugfixes. [Releasenotes](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/0-18-5-branch/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.18.5.md)

Release lnd v0.18.5-beta · lightningnetwork/lnd

privacy

Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party VPN service that uses our WireGuard VPN servers as its “exit hop”.

This partnership starts on 11th Feburary 2025, with apps for macOS being available from this date on Obscura VPNs website.

While connected through Obscura, your traffic first passes through Obscura’s servers before exiting to the Internet via Mullvad’s WireGuard servers. This two-party architecture ensures that neither Obscura nor Mullvad can see both your identity and your Internet traffic.

Obscura users can verify that their traffic is sent encrypted to a Mullvad server by comparing their server’s WireGuard public key (shown on the Obscura App’s “Location” page) against those published on our server page.

Obscura also features a custom obfuscation protocol based on QUIC that mimics HTTP/3 traffic to bypass firewalls and censorship.

This service is separate from Mullvad VPN.

Read more on [Obscura VPN’s website](https://obscura.net/).

Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN | Mullvad VPN

Exposing seed phrase question

aliceandthewonderland

> You are better off using a passphrase instead.

exactly

It can but its not secure and it could lead to loss of funds because your self not remembering your setup. And if you write it down somewhere the "hacker" can find it and exploit it.

I think there are better ways to secure a wallet. (passphrase or multisig)