Today I’m heading home to spend a few days with my family.
It’s such a simple thing, yet something @keonne and @SamouraiDev have been deprived of for far too long.
#Privacyisahumanfight
Never forget.
#FreeSamourai
During this afternoon's remarks, while rattling off their "accomplishments", any mention of pardoning Ross Ulbricht was avoided.
While pointing out how the Biden administration went after "developers", Trump motioned toward the c-suite executives standing around him, not the brilliant minds locked behind bars.
While patting themselves on the back for "ending the war on crypto", Bill & Keonne waste away in prison cells, Roman Storm is actively fighting a retrial with the DOJ, and many others like Ian Freeman & Roman Sterlingov have been silenced & locked away for years.
Everyone at this meeting is a complete clown, including Trump. I'm sick of pretending that being uncritical of this administration is going to somehow get my friends pardoned. These guys are all snakes and they deserve the criticism, they'll only ever serve themselves and will never set right the damages inflicted by the Biden administration.
Our Ungovernable crew member @sethforprivacy went from 2 → 4 NVIDIA DGX boxes on his desk.
Open-weight models now running private, on-prem, matching the big labs. Nothing leaves his room.
We’re diving into the full setup this Friday.
#FreedomTechFriday LIVE 9am EST / 2pm UK
Last week’s teaser attached
https://t.co/n7R8PzzF8E
You’ve heard of Chainalysis suing the US over an ICE surveillance contract. What you haven’t heard is what the task force that set out the contract is actually about.
The US used to dismantle drug networks by prosecuting them. For 40 years that was OCDETF, a Justice Department program that put federal prosecutors at the center of every major transnational crime investigation.
It was shut down last year.
30 permanent Homeland Security Task Forces replaced it, created by executive order, with the governing role delegated to Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, and the second largest investigative agency in the US.
The new model, in the words of OCDETF's former director Thomas Padden, "eliminates the role of prosecutors.”
Its termination, Padden wrote, "comes as the Trump Administration ceases the United States' lawful maritime drug interdiction mission in favor of its questionable use of military strikes against alleged drug smuggling vessels."
Padden warned Congress in March that with prosecutors out of the loop, information sharing between law enforcement, the intelligence community and the military is "unclear."
Now the task forces that inherited the OCDETF’s casework are buying blockchain surveillance tools at a record level.
The ICE contract Chainalysis is suing over is the largest such contract in US history and roughly three-quarters of everything the US government has ever spent on blockchain tracing with a single contractor.
According to ICE’s statement of need, the tools are meant to help the task forces Cybercrime Disruption Center (CDC) to combat cybercrime.
But the CDC doesn’t even seem to have a website, nor are cybercrime disruptions listed as a core responsibility of the HSTF.
In effect, it seems that the CDC does not exist at all in public view apart from its procurement records.
For context, ICE’s HSI is the same agency Senator Ron Wyden asked the DOJ to investigate in 2023 after it obtained millions of Americans' money transfer records, which he described as “mass surveillance.”
The same agency documented monitoring lawful protests, pulling demonstrators into unmarked vans, accused of unproportionately targeting people of color, and painting immigrant youth as gang members with questionable evidence.
Whoever wins the contract battle, an HSI cybercrime center without a website now has close to $100M in blockchain surveillance capabilities.
Today we launch the new and improved RoninDojo v3.0.0 bitcoin node. 🥳
Now more than ever, we need open source node software that enables anyone be their own bank, have the electronic cash experience, and avoid trusting a 3rd party.
Get started: https://t.co/rBnuoMohOa
1/3 🧵
We just released the Dixence security update.
During our internal audits, we were able to discover and fix multiple security issues in the BitBox firmware.
We recommend our users to update their BitBoxApp and device firmware through the BitBoxApp settings.
https://t.co/bcHaeVU641
For months now I've been asking 'WHAT WILL YOU BUILD'. Well today, in the beta firmware, that becomes a true reality.
Using the SDK you can now load ANY APP you like onto your device. No more simulator-only testing.
Got an idea? Build it.
Like someone else's idea? Run it.
The power is in your hands 🔥
Here's a few ideas for you https://t.co/UNDD0wXwRd
🚨 Bonehead Nevada cops accidentally publicly published a guy’s entire crypto recovery phrase.
Not long after the footage went public, more than $1.1 million vanished from his wallet.
Should the cops be held liable?
SAFEPAL CUSTOMER DATA BREACH AFFECTS NEARLY 40,000
SafePal disclosed a security flaw in an order-tracking plug-in that exposed personal information belonging to approximately 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026.
Exposed data included names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers and purchase details.
SafePal says seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords and payment information were not compromised.
SafePal disclosed the incident roughly four months after the last affected orders were placed, but has not said when it first discovered the unauthorized access.
The company has fixed the flaw and says it has already taken down more than 30 fraudulent websites and phishing links tied to scam activity.
Affected customers are being warned to expect potentially sophisticated phishing and impersonation attempts using the leaked order information.
RBITCOIN LAUNCHES NEW BITCOIN NODE IMPLEMENTATION
After more than eight years of thinking about the project, @reardencode prompted @grok to help build rbitcoin, a new Bitcoin node implementation written in Rust.
https://t.co/5F38E2KIVs
It supports Electrum, Esplora and Bitcoin Core RPC interfaces.
The fully synced node takes up roughly 850GB, including transaction and Electrum indexes, and synced to mainnet in under 30 hours on a laptop.
The project uses minimal dependencies, modest RAM and a compact storage architecture, with no UTXO set.
reardencode says it is ready for use as a wallet backend.
GALAXY MAPS THE LARGEST COLDCARD HACKERS
Analysis from @glxyresearch has identified distinct fingerprints among the groups that exploited weak COLDCARD seeds.
The 10 largest groups alone swept roughly 1,700 BTC, with the largest taking more than 1,080 BTC.
Researchers separated the attackers by patterns including fee policies, transaction timing, sweep methods and where the stolen bitcoin was sent.
Several of the largest groups still appear to be holding nearly all of the stolen BTC.
If you are a victim of the COLDCARD hack, be sure to reach out to @intangiblecoins to help gather evidence and contact the proper authorities.
Today, we are releasing BTCPay Server v2.4.3-rc4, a security update addressing vulnerabilities reported by the Bitcoin Red Team, @ProjectLoupe, @MagicGrants, @Premai_io, and independent researchers.
This release follows several days of nonstop work, review, and testing. It was built from our temporary private security repository, but to make these security fixes available as quickly as possible, we are releasing the Docker image publicly now.
This is a release candidate, so bugs may still be present. NFC is now opt-in, and the Phoenixd plugin is temporarily incompatible with this release. Please report any issues to the team. We will document behavioral changes within the main release.
Despite its RC status, we strongly recommend upgrading now using the standard process:
Server Settings > Maintenance > Update
or run or run btcpay-update(.)sh from the command line, removing the parentheses
If no significant issues are reported, the release candidate will be tagged as v2.4.3 and fully open-sourced within the next 48 hours.