The Little Canadian That Could | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 83

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q.

AOB

• Holiday season is over • UK no longer melting • Samourai updates

NEWS

• GitHub permanently bans Rust Lightning (LDK); Corallo moves Bitcoin dev infra to self-hosted Forgejo - Bitcoin Magazine: Corallo urges Bitcoin projects to exit GitHub after Rust Lightning ban

• Sparrow Wallet Apple developer-account scare resolved - Bitcoin Magazine / Craig Raw / Sparrow Wallet

• FISA Section 702 lapses for the first time since 2008 - EFF: Victory, 702 Has Expired

• Canada's surveillance-and-speech week: Lawful Access bill (C-22) rammed to a June 19 deadline, "Combatting Hate" Act (C-9) gets royal assent June 18 - EFF: Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill / Canada.ca: stronger hate crime protections become law

• US CBDC ban through 2030 heads to the President’s desk - House Financial Services Committee

• Developer-protection carve-out (BRCA) being sanded down as CLARITY Act stalls; passage odds cut to 50-50 - Bitcoin Magazine: Galaxy Research cuts CLARITY Act passage odds

• Bull Bitcoin secures MiCA license in France while keeping self-custody/privacy model - Bitcoin Magazine / Bull Bitcoin

• ESMA tells unlicensed crypto providers to wind down as MiCA deadline arrives - ESMA public statement PDF

• LND zero-timestamp DoS vulnerability publicly disclosed - Bitcoin Optech #411

RELEASES

Wallets

• Envoy v2.3.0-beta - 2026-06-22 Redesigned Send flow with inter-account transfers, message signing, Address Explorer, sub-sat fee rates, and custom block-explorer support, plus Passport Prime pairing/Bluetooth reliability fixes. Disclose it is ours.

• Zeus v13.1.0 - 2026-06-17 Feature release: Cashu multi-mint sends, queue-less Nostr Wallet Connect payments on iOS, CLINK noffer support, and Cashu-token detection in URLs. Strong ecash plus Nostr-native payments stack for a self-custodial Lightning wallet.

• Zeus v13.1.1 - 2026-06-26 Patch: fixes TLS cert verification for LND/CLN REST over Tor and a currency-converter input bug.

• Phoenix 2.8.1 - 2026-06-18 Adds an iOS debug screen for signing swap-in transactions and fixes an Android amount-display bug, on updated lightning-kmp.

• Blockstream Green iOS 5.5.0 - 2026-06-15 Adds support for paying LNURL, BOLT12, and BIP-353 payment instructions, improves Lightning invoice handling, and shows funding fees in the receive flow.

• Blockstream Green Desktop 3.4.1 - 2026-06-17 Adds BOLT12 offer descriptions and updates GDK to 0.77.6. Secondary to the iOS release, but it reinforces the same BOLT12/BIP-353 direction.

• Blink Mobile 3.0.1 - 2026-06-26 Pre-release build that continues Blink’s self-custodial wallet implementation, including wallet creation, seed backup/recovery, Blink Lightning address, LNURL pay, and Stable Balance with BTC-USD conversion. Mention only as a prerelease / watch item. Lightning / node ops

• Core Lightning 26.06.2 - 2026-06-29 Point release recommended for minimal OS setups and Docker images lacking root TLS certificates. Late-breaking / record-day item if recording after June 29; not a lead, but useful for node operators. Self-hosting / payments infra

• BTCPay Server v2.4.0 - 2026-06-25 Major release: multisig wallet setup, loginless passkey auth, and granular per-wallet permissions. Breaking: removes the LNBank and Lightning Charge backends. Bitcoin / wallet infrastructure

• Liquid GDK 0.77.6 - 2026-06-16 Adds Python 3.14 wheels and fixes singlesig GDK use over Tor that broke after a ureq dependency update. Developer/infrastructure note rather than listener-facing wallet news. Hardware / multisig / inheritance

• Nunchuk 2.6.0 - 2026-06-17 (Blog Post: https://nunchuk.io/blog/phased-rollout ) Phased rollout of the off-chain inheritance protocol, plus fixes and performance work. Self-custodied estate planning for multisig users. P2P / no-KYC trading

• Mostro v0.17.5 - 2026-06-16 Anti-abuse bonds harden the