Category Tech

Bitcoin Knots v29.4.knots20260508 with BIP-110

New version of Bitcoin Knots, and I’ve compiled and installed it on my nodes. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is it will connect out to more nodes until more inbound nodes connect. The older code would limit to 10 or…

Bitcoin Core Sybil Attack (Happening Now)

It would seem someone is spinning up a bunch of Bitcoin Core 27 nodes to try and keep the percentage of Bitcoin Knots BIP-110 nodes from gaining a higher percentage. Who fears this and has the resources to do it?…

ColdCard Hack & Seedsigner with Seed

I’m just not on board with anyone that recommends the Seedsigner over other hardened hardware wallets, as it has no secure elements or engineering to harden the physical device you construct from off the shelf components. And since it doesn’t…

What Could Happen This Saturday (BIP-110)

A good overview of what is coming Saturday in the battle for Bitcoin. I’d just sit back and watch, and get your Bitcoin stored safely and close any Lightning channels… If the BIP-110 side decides to hard fork because miners…

Deanonymizing Monero Transactions in Tor Network

An interesting analysis of a paper covering an earlier version of Monero that was a bit too chatty between nodes on Tor, though already corrected in the latest version. And worth noting, compile your own node. I download the source…