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The AI-Pocalypse Continues | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 88
Published 1 week, 3 days ago
Description
A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.
Flint v1.0.3 -- 2026-08-28
AOB
- We are now a weekly show
- Topics
- Full screen video
- Admin tools
- Envoy 2.3.3
- KeyOS 1.4.0 beta3 (public release this week)
NEWS
- Core Lightning: A Critical Vulnerability, a Binary-Only Patch, and a Docker Pipeline That Broke Because of It -- Stacker News / Blockstream Blog / GitHub Release
- Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Mainnet Transaction (No Fork Required) -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Stacker News Ships Embedded Spark Wallet and Receive Proxy Toggle -- Stacker News
- SeedSigner Fork Adds Miniscript Support with Liana Bridge -- X/@UnruggableGG
- Roman Storm Retrial Pushed to April 2027 -- X/@rstormsf
- Coinbase and Better Mortgage Launch Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages -- Bitcoin Magazine
- HRF Awards 500 Million Sats to 16 Freedom Tech Projects Worldwide -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Kraken Users Locked Out After 12,000 Dust Transfers From Sanctioned HTX Wallets -- Bitcoin Magazine
- Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b Hardfork Goes Live as a "Mainnet Trial" -- CryptoSlate / GitHub PR #359 / The Bitcoin Manual explainer
- Peach Bitcoin Pauses Escrow Model After Swiss Regulator Reversal -- Peach Blog
RELEASES
Flint v1.0.3 -- 2026-08-28
- Security audit follow-up for Seth's BTCPay Server plugin. Strips macOS payloads from the build, pins the release path, and restores file permissions after dylib stripping. All artifacts are Sigstore-attested with no maintainer key required.
- Also in window: Flint v1.0.2 (2026-08-27) -- 23% smaller package, shared reconciliation scans reducing SDK calls for idle stores, cached Spark network status reads. Follows the v1.0.0 milestone which fixed a payment-hash association security issue.
- Envoy 2.3.3 -- 2026-08-27