Too Soft To Fork? | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 68

Max and Q cover the latest happenings in the world of Bitcoin, privacy and much more. 

NEWS

• Soft fork proposal
• Alby attack
• Solo Miner wins a block
• BitKey collaborative custoday improvement BIP
• Lugano Stream
• WoS Spark privacy concerns

UPDATES/RELEASES

• Trezor release
• Ledger release
• Arkade beta
• Cake v5.5.0 + v5.5.1
• Bull by Bull Bitcoin
• Bitcoin for Signal
• SatGo integrates Spark 
• Peach BTCPay Plugin
• Stack Duo v1.3.0
• RoninDojo v2.4.0

Education

• Passport guide
  • And another
• Cupcake deep dive
• Seth Ark article
• Ark explainer by Neil

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(00:00:41) Welcome, show format, and brief housekeeping

(00:05:19) UK weather banter and setting the scene

(00:05:22) Events and product updates: Bitfest, Envoy 2.10, Passport audit

(00:08:06) BIT-444 proposal to restrict arbitrary data on Bitcoin

(00:12:03) Critiques: miniscript breakage, Peter Todd demo, and soft vs hard fork risk

(00:18:26) Mining politics, hash power, and potential chain splits

(00:18:33) Security incident: Alby password reset spam and email exposure

(00:20:45) Feel-good story: solo miner finds a block via Public Pool on Umbrel

(00:23:05) New BIP: Chaincode Delegation for private collaborative multisig

(00:28:08) Conference notes and a privacy PSA on Spark implementations

(00:32:28) Boosts and community feedback: swaps, Moon wallet UX, and Boltz reliance

(00:37:09) Q&A: consolidating UTXOs, PayJoin, Whirlpool, and Robosats flows

(00:42:11) Q&A: Running a self-hosted AlbyHub LDK node—backup and privacy

(00:46:12) Hardware wallet releases: Trezor Safe 7 and Ledger Nano Gen 5

(00:52:35) Multisig device choices and inheritance practicality

(00:52:38) ARC in the wild: Arcade.money public beta hands-on

(00:53:55) Cake Wallet 5.5 updates and hardware support

(00:54:22) Bull Bitcoin releases Bull Wallet: features and roadmap

(00:58:12) eCash in Signal fork: UX gains vs custodial trade-offs

(01:02:30) Spark adoption notes: SatGo and Wallet of Satoshi privacy caveats

(01:03:31) Peach plugin for BTCPay and Stack Duo’s Frost multisig progress

(01:05:06) RoninDojo 2.4 and Fulcrum 2.0 stability improvements

(01:06:03) Education picks and closing logistics

(01:07:29) Stats corner addendum by John: RoboSats, Whirlpool, Bisq, and more