News

Apple iOS Devices Don't Route All Network Traffic Through VPNs

* data leaves the iOS device outside of the VPN tunnel * apple has allegedly been aware of the issue for years https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/ios-vpns-still-leak-traffic-more-than-2-years-later-researcher-claims/ archive: https://archive.ph/yxgDG https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php archive: https://archive.ph/JYlwT

17 Aug 2022

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Releases

Bitcoin Optech #213

* BLS signatures could be used to improve DLCs without consensus changes * Rust Bitcoin v0.29 and Core Lightning v0.12.0rc2 https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/17/ archive: https://archive.ph/MSBPH

17 Aug 2022

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Research

Bitcoin Ekasi: The Township One Year Later

* modeled after Bitcoin Beach, a South African township attests to the opportunities of a bootstrapped bitcoin economy https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-ekasi-township-one-year-later archive: https://archive.ph/WszFL

17 Aug 2022

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News

Bitmain and Antpool Partner with Antalpha to Offer Low Cost Loans for Equipment and Resource Costs

* Bitmain and Antpool will provide proprietary data to the lender in order to evaluate risk https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitmain-antpool-antalpha-offer-bitcoin-mining-industry-lifeline archive: https://archive.ph/uLI7V

15 Aug 2022

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News

CoinCenter: What is and what is not a sanctionable entity in the Tornado Cash case

* by treating autonomous code as a “person” OFAC exceeds its statutory authority https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/ archive: https://archive.ph/mig2M

15 Aug 2022

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News

US Bans Export of Tech Used in 3nm Chip Production

* rule will ban the export of two ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor materials, as well as some types of electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) technology and pressure gain combustion (PGC) technology https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/15/us_bans_3nm_exports/ archive: https://archive.ph/x7ayT

15 Aug 2022

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News

New US Privacy Law May Give Telecoms Free Pass on $200 Million Fines

* wiping out $200 million worth of fines from a major location-data selling scandal https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb9y/new-us-privacy-law-may-give-telecoms-free-pass-on-dollar200-million-fines archive: https://archive.ph/2s4dx

15 Aug 2022

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News

Tornado Cash Developer Arrested in Amsterdam

https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado-cash/ archive: https://archive.ph/u2Sv5

12 Aug 2022

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News

Casa Discloses Data Breach of the Casa Store

* leaked data includes names, emails, phone numbers, shipping and billing addresses, and product(s) ordered https://nitter.net/CasaHODL/status/1558104064717737987 archive: https://archive.ph/TgZPZ

12 Aug 2022

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News

Announcing Vinteum: Supporting Bitcoin Development in Brazil

* will train and fund open source developers to work on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network https://medium.com/vinteum-org/announcing-vinteum-supporting-bitcoin-development-in-brazil-bb74559ef164 archive: https://archive.ph/1jyRb

12 Aug 2022

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News

Tornado Cash Activity: $62 million has been withdrawn post-sanctions, corresponding to around 15% of the value locked in Tornado Cash.

https://nitter.net/TheBlockRes/status/1558093591662280707

12 Aug 2022

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News

BlackRock Launches Bitcoin Private Trust

* offers customers 'direct bitcoin exposure' * blackrock is the largest asset manager in the world with over $10 trillion under management https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/bitcoin-private-trust archive: https://archive.ph/9c08F

11 Aug 2022

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