Socratic Seminar 36

2026-08-13

Housekeeping 🧹

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Topics

Coldcard vulnerability report

• Coldcard entropy analysis: (nonces vs. seeds)

Red teaming Bitcoin

• The kickoff: "situation is extremely bad"

BTCPay Server critical vulnerability, update to 2.4.2

Boltz shuts down operations

Bitcoin Security Consortium

• Launch announcement: $15M over three years, post-quantum cryptography first

A faster Go (golang) secp256k1 library

libsecp256k1: "silentpayments" module implementing BIP352

rbitcoin: full node in Rust with a UTXO-set-free relational archive and in-process Electrum

Stale tip proposal

Releases

Lightning Labs announces Wavelength

Sparrow 2.5.0 adds silent payment receives

Ledger Bitcoin app 2.5.0. Human readable miniscript descriptors

libshrincs

Misc. / Cultural

BORG: Extendable Distributed Vector Commitments from Reconfigurable Erasure Codes

Entropy Visualization

Trezor data breach