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GG wanted miniscript on @SeedSigner. Rob Hamilton opened an issue about it three years ago and it sat there. So GG put the clankers to work and built the fork himself, plus a standalone bridge so it talks to the live Liana desktop without patching Liana at all. Twelve months ago that was an insurmountable challenge for most junior developers, let alone someone who is not a developer. Nobody is claiming these forks are safe to hold funds on. But getting 95% of the way there, so an actual engineer can pick it up and review it properly, is completely fucking wild. This is the other side of the AI story, and it does not get the headlines the hacks do.
Between the 17th and the 24th of August, wallets tied to sanctioned exchange HTX sent roughly 12,000 dust transfers into Kraken user addresses. The deposits tripped Kraken's AML controls and froze the accounts. Access has been restored, but Kraken still holds 4.2 million it considers tainted, and restored access is not the same as getting your money back. HTX denies all involvement. Look at the asymmetry. Sending dust from an address you know is sanctioned costs an attacker close to nothing, even at current mempool rates. It can cost the victim their entire account. This is what coin control is for, and it is what leaving coins on an exchange can cost you.
Two Starkware researchers broadcast a quantum resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, in block 964199, using hash based one time signatures built from script opcodes that already exist. No consensus change. No soft fork. Nobody had to ask Bitcoin Core for anything. It is about five times the size of a normal transaction, so at fifty sats a byte it stings. At one sat a byte it is nothing. And if the alternative is being quantum vulnerable, that is a price worth paying. The headline is not the cost. It is that this was possible the whole time.
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