Show Notes
A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.
AOB Envoy 2.3.0Full 2.3.0 out of beta: redesigned Send flow with inter-account transfers, message signing, Address Explorer, sub-satoshi fee rates, QR-density adjustment for Passport signing.
Passport Prime 1.3.0-betaVault imports, BIP85 passwords, mass 2FA imports, universal QR scanner and loads of bug fixes
Visual improvements to the docs site App showcase is now live NEWS EU "Chat Control" — scanning derogation survives Parliament, permanent client-side-scanning law stalls again - TFTC: EU Chat Control, private message scanning, and Bitcoin's open protocols / Patrick Breyer: Chat Control
Radar Chat launches: a Signal fork with self-custodial Lightning payments built in - Decrypt: Radar Chat wants to make sending Bitcoin as easy as firing off a text / Atlas21
Bull Bitcoin sues the French Finance Ministry over DAC8/CARF crypto surveillance reporting - The Rage: French Finance Ministry sued over global surveillance database
MiCA deadline forces a self-custody exodus: ~70% of departing Binance EU users chose self-custody over a licensed exchange - Blockonomi: Binance reveals 70% of EU users chose self-custody after MiCA / CoinDesk: Binance to stop EU services after failing to secure MiCA licence
CLARITY Act developer safe-harbor (BRCA / Section 604) goes to the wire as Wyden fights to keep it intact - TFTC: Wyden, CLARITY Act, Section 604 developer safe harbor / Coin Center: The BRCA survived CLARITY's markup, do not give it up now
BIP-110 data-filtering soft fork heads for its deadline with miner signaling near zero - CoinDesk: Bitcoin's BIP-110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero / Bitcoin Optech #412
RELEASES
Bitcoin core / protocol Bitcoin Core 30.3 - 2026-07-10Point release on the current 30.x line. Grab binaries from bitcoincore.org (deterministic + signed), not GitHub attachments.
Bitcoin Core 29.4 - 2026-07-10Maintenance release keeping the older stable branch patched for sovereign self-hosters.
Hardware / signing SeedSigner 0.8.7 "Summer of SeedSigner" - 2026-07-0880 PRs from 20 contributors: localization to 22 languages (first RTL language, Persian), BBQr PSBT decoding, and a big codebase professionalization pass. Airgapped DIY signing for a much wider audience.
BitBox02 Firmware 9.26.4 - 2026-07-09Small fix following the 9.26.3 security batch (out-of-bounds write fix, silent-payments and EIP-712 validation hardening). Paired with BitBoxApp 4.51.3.
Lightning Core Lightning 26.06.3 - 2026-07-09Latest in-window CLN (a coincurve dep bump in pyln-proto superseded 26.06.2 from 06-30).
lnd 0.20.2-beta - 2026-07-10Maintenance release on the 0.20 branch, no migrations, built with go1.25.5. Follows the zero-timestamp DoS fix discussed last episode.
LNbits 1.5.5 - 2026-07-08Revolut + Square payment options, better payment reliability across backends, faster theming, cached rates, improved CSV exports and OIDC/SSO fixes. (A same-day 1.5.6 followed.)
Zeus 13.1.2 - 2026-07-02Bug fixes and UX polish: pasteable amount input, copy Lightning address, UTXO-picker label and LND address-generation fixes.
Ecash Cashu TS 4.7.0 - 2026-07-09LTS release for the JS/TS Cashu library: NUT-29 batch quote checks plus fixes for malformed tokens and NUT-28 locking slots. Foundation layer for ecash wallets/mints.
Cashu CDK 0.17.2 - 2026-06-29Exposes NUT-27 mint backup through the wallet bindings; Android 16KB page-size and Swift compatibility. (A 0.17.3 with NIP-47/NWC support shipped 07-13.)
On-chain privacy / coinjoin Ashigaru Desktop 1.1.0 - 2026-07-11Major redesign: dedicated Whirlpool mixing experience, private Electrum server discovery over Tor, card-based UTXO views with PayNym support, and a Whirlpool Stats tool. Post-Samourai sovereign coinjoin keeps shipping (this is a 1.0 -> 1.1 jump from last episode's launch).
Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 - 2026-06-27 [borderline, grace window]P2P sync of
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In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how he helped raise over 10,000,000 sats through a provably fair lottery to support the Samourai developers. They got into the cypherpunk roots of Bitcoin, the dangers of KYC, paper Bitcoin, and the creeping surveillance state, as well as why privacy tools are essential if Bitcoin is ever going to be genuinely useful as freedom money. Rick also shared his perspective on why so many people in Bitcoin have lost sight of the bigger picture, and why supporting people like Keonne and Bill matters far beyond just one legal case.
A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.
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A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.
A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth.