PiHiker⚡

Security Engineer • Pentester • Vulnerability Research | Finding bugs in Bitcoin & crypto. Building security infra & APIs for developers and AI agents.

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@secondhq Appreciate the updates.

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@secondhq Thoughts on adding a Tor endpoint for your server?

[Arké @arkebitcoin]

Receiving mining rewards from a single BitAxe hooked up to @PiHiker's ArkPool (https://t.co/9RPg6VKEeb) directly into Arké.

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

�� New Dev Updates for https://t.co/XqFPb0JpCA

ArkPool Gateway

🔒Tor runtime update
🔀 Redundant Tor paths with failed-route cooldowns & bounded stale-job recovery
📊 Private job/share telemetry & timing
🤖 Easier AI-assisted setup guides

Bitaxe 601a Firmware

🆕 ESP-IDF 6.1 + upstream HTTP parser security fix
📊 Connection-health dashboard, job/share activity & transport-security status

⚡ Hourly Bitcoin payouts over Ark for eligible miners, powered by Bark from @secondhq.

👉 https://t.co/7QtMWyQjXu
💻 https://t.co/tF6VUIT5LT

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

Thanks! We’re testing multiple upstream pools that support Lightning payouts and Tor connections. Tor helps protect the privacy of both miners and our pool infrastructure. ArkPool handles miner accounting, and we use Bark from Second to receive Lightning payouts from upstream pools and pay miners over Ark.

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

Security-hardened ArkPool firmware for Bitaxe 601a⚡
ESP32-S3 • ESP-IDF v6.0.2

🔒 Signed updates + protected admin access
🔐 Optional verified Arkpool LAN gateway TLS
🎨 ArkPool web UI

Built on ESP-Miner + StarMiner. Live testing underway.

https://t.co/WVhJQunPx3
https://t.co/7QtMWyQjXu

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@matthewvuk2 @secondhq ArkPool! ⛏️🧅 Bitcoin mining with Tor-only pool connections and hourly Ark payouts when eligible, from just 1 sat. Built for Bitaxe & small miners, powered by Bark! https://t.co/ez0DCuOmXQ

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

ArkPool is live 🚀

⚡ Hourly Bitcoin payouts over Ark, when eligible
🧅 Tor-only pool connections @torproject
⛏️ Built for Bitaxe & small miners
🔐 No account registration
👤 Your Ark receive address = your mining username
💸 1 sat minimum payouts!
🌐 Open-source gateway
🛡️ Privacy-focused by design
🐶 Ark payments powered by Bark from @secondhq
🌍 https://t.co/7QtMWyQjXu
💻 https://t.co/t1EiuDcPQZ

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

Shhark, built on @secondhq’s Bark,combines Ark-signed contact cards with P2P Payjoin over Tor using hybrid PQ encryption. No Payjoin directory or relay fallback.

https://t.co/PWv0BMZyHN

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@matthewvuk2 @btchelevent 🤘

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

Researchers are testing PQLN, a prototype that adds post-quantum protection to Lightning’s peer connections, invoices and payment routing.

https://t.co/u31fLSsXX5

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@notgrubles I started testing this with Shhark last week..using Ark signatures to verify contacts, prove payment-address ownership, authenticate Tor P2P updates, and sign store catalogs, quotes, and fulfillment updates.

It starts pushing Ark beyond payments and into identity.

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

🔐 Post-quantum TLS matters now: attackers can harvest encrypted traffic today and decrypt it later.

🔎 I tasked my agent to test the 50 top websites using our new API:
✅ 58% PQ-TLS ready
⚠️ 42% not ready
🔒 94% supported TLS 1.3

📊 Free full domain report + API access
https://t.co/cSe85Vd9zx
📜 RFC 10024, published in August 2026, standardizes hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768 key agreement for TLS 1.3.

[Jay Rogers 👨‍💻 @jaydrogers]

All WordPress users need to update their WordPress installations immediately 💯

There is a 9.2 CVE that discloses a remote code execution vulnerability that affects versions all the way back to 2016 😬

Here's the official notice https://t.co/tbJlzC780L

[PiHiker⚡ @PiHiker]

@notgrubles This is interesting, a few mining pools are already paying via lightning but getting paid over ark rail would be pretty sweet. More frequent payouts, etc.