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1/ Bark 0.8.1 is out, and emergency exits no longer require your wallet online to broadcast. You can now fully presign your exit, including CPFPs, and share them with a third party to broadcast on your behalf.
ALT A hand-drawn break-glass emergency box with a hammer hanging beside it on a chain and three signed transactions linked by arrows inside, representing emergency exit transactions signed ahead of time and ready to broadcast later
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I used this recently in Nashville. I saw a ₿ logo on the payment screen, pressed it, and immediately got a lightning QR code. Which I paid, and a few seconds later the transaction was done.
The cashier had no idea I was paying with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is now on by default at Square checkouts across the U.S.
Sellers don't have to apply. Square switched it on for every eligible business, whether the owner has ever thought about bitcoin or not.
The customer scans a QR code with any Lightning wallet and the payment settles in seconds. The seller gets dollars by default or can choose to keep the bitcoin, and there are no chargebacks. Sellers can also auto-convert up to 50% of their daily card sales into bitcoin.
The limits: $600 max per payment, $20,000 a day, and sellers in New York are left out.
The fee is 0% through Dec. 31, then a flat 1%. A card tap on Square's free plan costs the merchant 2.6% plus 15 cents.
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For anyone in Europe looking for a new home for their bitcoin, we'd love to earn your business.
Strike is licensed under MiCA, bitcoin-only, and offers free bitcoin withdrawals to self-custody.
We're committed to building the best possible bitcoin experience for Europeans, for the long term.
🇪🇺 BINANCE WILL CLOSE EU ACCOUNTS ON DEC. 31 AND CHARGE A MONTHLY FEE ON ANYTHING LEFT BEHIND
Binance says affected accounts "will be closed with effect from 31 December 2026" after the EU's MiCA transition period ended without the exchange getting a license.
Customers of Binance France and Binance Italy have been emailed. Users in Poland and Spain say they got the same notice. Deposits are blocked, and withdrawals still work.
From Nov. 29, crypto left on those accounts will be charged 0.025% a month or 10 USDC, whichever is higher, according to the emails. Anyone holding less than $40,000 pays the flat 10 USDC, and balances smaller than the fee are taken in full.
Binance says it is still pursuing a MiCA license in another EU country.
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buzz 1.0 is finally here! the most flexible team workspace out there. for humans and agents, model agnostic, local or cloud, and infinitely extendable.
buzz.xyz
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Reality of our days:
1. I am sitting on a set of vulns (4+) that allows me to remotely take over a consumer home automation device I have (3+ diff ways).
2. The vendor doesn't only serve consumers, but also critical infra (announced partnerships include pharma manufacturing plants, airport logistics, hospitals, etc) across various locations in Europe and the US (not the same product line, ofc, so maybe moot).
3. Claude and Astra refuse to help me explore even my own device, so now I'm using Chinese hosted models for investigating.
4. The vendor (with a revenue of $0.75B) does not maintain any security disclosure practice whatsoever, nor does respond to emails.
So, to recap, I need to outsource vulnerability hunting of (potentially, I don't know) critical western infrastructure to Chinese models, because the western models refuse; and the vendor doesn't give a shit. Fun timeline.
PS: The vendor is Swiss.
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THANK YOU EACH OF OUR HASHRATE DONORS.
We are in the final hours of the 2026 Veterans Day Telehash.
Peak Hashrate: 1.08 Eh/s
Number of working miners: 2198
Total earnings pending.
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It's really wild working with abliterated models primarily.
You ask it to do something, and it'll just fucking go.
Wild. We've conditioned ourselves as an industry to toe step around AI and our AI overlords.
No longer needs to be the case. The machine works for us now.
I (and @xssdoctor) were just talking about our experiences the other day, for bounty and pentest work.
We have the opposite experience.
Running Abliterated models drastically changes offsec CoT and hence outcomes for cyber testing.
If you watch your chain of thought in a normal model, you’ll notice it taking a significant portion of your inference or tokens to argue about the tasks validity, safety, scope, and system prompt directives. PAGES of garbage reasoning polluting your attention mechanism for the transformer. It may get to “ok, I’ll do it” but you’ve wasted time, attention, and tokens, and have context pollution for future generations.
Abliterated models don’t do this. That and they also have the latent space to ideate and find solutions to things a normal model won’t.
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Couldn’t be more excited and proud of the team for pulling this off. This has been years in the making, and we’ve finally built a product worthy of Micro Center’s shelves.
This is also pretty personal to me. I started @futurebit 10 years ago, working out of my Brooklyn studio and making weekly trips for parts to the same Brooklyn Micro Center store where our product will launch this Friday.
I couldn’t have imagined a better retail chain for our debut in physical stores. Micro Center sits at the intersection of new tech and tech-savvy buyers, and it’s also the only remaining major consumer electronics chain in the US focused primarily on computers and consumer hardware.
Incredibly excited for what this means for the future of Bitcoin and home mining, for continuing to expand the user base of our products, and, more importantly, for getting even more people involved at the base layer of Bitcoin.
Apollo III lands at @microcenter this Friday, November 13!
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Micro Center and FutureBit’s first brick-and-mortar launch.
Starting Friday at store opening, Apollo III will be available at four locations:
📍 Tustin, California
📍 Austin, Texas
📍 Miami, Florida
📍 Brooklyn, New York
With in-store displays, you can get hands-on with Apollo III before buying, and take one home that day!
Our mission to broaden bitcoin adaption takes a major new step today. We couldn't be more proud that the Apollo III will be the first general consumer home miner that will be exposed to millions of Micro Center tech fans.
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Blog post with the context for how @Lightlike1 and I discovered this issue.
A new medium severity advisory has been posted: bitcoincore.org/en/2026/11/1…
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Our latest high severity disclosure:
> A reorg can restore a transaction topology that violates TRUC’s descendant limit: valid in a block but impossible to form in the mempool. Re-adding such transactions with sibling eviction still active could evict a restored transaction while leaving its in-mempool descendants behind
> The main effect of this inconsistent state is that a miner’s block template creation can no longer succeed: the assembled template fails its validity check, so a node that performed such a reorg cannot produce blocks until it is restarted
A new high severity advisory has been posted: bitcoincore.org/en/2026/11/1…
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🚨SECURITY UPDATE🚨
v1.7.0 is now released
github.com/lnbits/lnbits/rel…
Please follow the upgrade guidance in the notes.
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I am increasingly concerned that The Jensen Affair will be used to justify sweeping controls, backdoors, and new surveillance measures on compute.
That outcome is unacceptable. Full stop.
There are many, many ways to prevent China from getting FLOPS that don't require constructing a Compute Panopticon over our own citizens.
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Starting today, adding a new auto-withdrawal address or turning off your PIN on Strike takes five days.
Here's why we keep building in this direction:
Bitcoin is final. There's no chargeback, no fraud department, no way to clawback sats that have been sent. That finality is what makes it sound money but it means security has to happen before your bitcoin moves, not after.
Most losses in bitcoin come from rushed moments: a convincing email, an urgent request, a setting changed in a hurry.
So we build security around two ideas:
First, you should always be able to verify it's really us. Every email from Strike carries an anti-phishing code only you know. No code? It's not us.
Second, the moments that matter most should be slow, and everything else should be instant. Strengthening your account happens immediately. Anything that weakens it, like turning off 2FA, turning off your PIN, etc, takes five days, with an option to cancel the whole time. Nobody can skip the delay, including us.
Underneath that sits everything else on your account: passkey and security key login, PIN or Face ID to open the app, 2FA on withdrawals, withdrawal limits you set yourself, and the ability to see and log out of every device from anywhere. If you use an authenticator app, you can now upgrade to a passkey without turning 2FA off first.
One more thing and maybe the most important thing:
You can withdraw your bitcoin to self-custody anytime, for free. A company that makes it hard to leave is demanding your trust. Strike makes leaving free because we spend every day earning your trust.
Take two minutes today: switch to a passkey, set a withdrawal limit, find your anti-phishing code, and check your device list.
Stay safe out there.
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Been job hunting for about two months now and of course staying in the Bitcoin industry would be my number one choice. It seems like that may not happen in a timely way as I do not want to go without income for too long.
Actually getting a lot of interviews lately at companies that aren't Bitcoin related that I would absolutely say yes if an offer managed to cross my desk. It's kinda sad but I should probably accept the last five years were just a brief dream come true and maybe we all find ourselves back in normie land eventually.
Anyway, love you guys.
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PSA: We do not provide private user support. All issue resolutions are public, and take place on Github or public forums. Someone posing as 'Electrum support' and proposing to help you via a private communication channel is most likely an imposter trying to steal your bitcoins.
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New release: Electrum 4.8.4. This is another security update. Release notes and binaries: electrum.org/#download
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⚠️⚠️ All LNbits users should stop their LNbits servers IMMEDIATELY. ⚠️⚠️
Please forward this announcement.
Following a wave of attacks, we have a number of security patches to push. Until then, it's better to err on the side of caution. 🙏
Updates to follow soon.
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Omarchy is forever free. There's no monetization scheme coming. I'm already rich and the Omacom Foundation is a well-founded nonprofit.
The only ulterior motive here is to make Linux win on the desktop and create the perfect, malleable computer for all to enjoy!
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Did you know you can run ShieldSigner firmware on your current SeedSigner? Yes - and it's excellent.
ShieldSigner is a well-reviewed, actively maintained fork that is fully based on current SeedSigner firmware. Nothing is removed. Everything you already know and trust is still there...plus a whole layer of powerful extras.
What it adds on top of stock SeedSigner:
• Encrypted SeedQRs (Krux-compatible) - my personal favourite
• SLIP-39 support
• BIP-85 child seed derivation and loading
• Full smartcard suite (SeedKeeper, Satochip, Keycard, etc.)
• Passphrase QR + split passphrase/encryption-key QRs
• On-device microSD flashing & verification tools
• Better entropy checks + optional wipe timer
• Message signing, WIF/BIP38, descriptor storage on card, and more
Best part? You don't even need a Satochip, SeedKeeper, or any smartcard. All the core extras (including encrypted SeedQRs) work on a normal SeedSigner. The cards are completely optional.
And if you ever want to go pure stock?
Just swap the microSD card. Boom, instantly back to original SeedSigner.
This is one of the cleanest "best of both worlds" upgrades in the DIY Bitcoin space right now.
If you have a SeedSigner (or are thinking about building one), give ShieldSigner a proper try.
And if you can code - the project is open source and contributions are very welcome.
🔗 github.com/3rdIteration/seed…
Huge respect to @YTCryptoGuide, @fartface2000 and everyone who's been pushing this forward.🙏
If you don’t already have one, build yourself or buy a shield signer. Building it is my actual recommendation ,mess around, do research, have your AI trouble shoot and answer any of your questions. Amazing software @YTCryptoGuide and @sesi_the_man
