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Every account affected by the September 19 incident has been made whole. We restored each account to its exact pre-incident balance. Affected users were notified directly before this post. Thank you to our mission-aligned shareholders who stepped in.

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Blink services are back online. The vulnerability behind the incident has been fixed and verified, and access has been restored for all unaffected accounts. If your account was not affected, you can continue as usual. Accounts of affected users will remain locked temporarily. Non-custodial balances were never affected. A full post-mortem will follow. Thank you for your patience. Questions? Reach us at support@blink.sv.

Update: A few dozen custodial accounts were affected by the incident. Every affected account is identified and will be made whole. If you were affected, there's nothing you need to do. If you have questions, reach out at contact@blink.sv any time. Non-custodial balances are unaffected.

We've paused Blink services while we investigate a security incident. An attacker accessed a limited number of custodial accounts and withdrew funds. The large majority of funds are secure. Non-custodial wallets are not affected.

Look what I just bought with Bitcoin at the SPAR in Arnhem @bitcoinstad today? If you tell you want to pay with bitcoin they will come up with an iPad with Lightning QR for you.

Just the fact they tried to use their (brief) lead to push for CLAUDE.md should tell you everything about what kind of shitty people lead Anthropic

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In August the Core Lightning maintainers told node operators to upgrade or run --offline. There was nothing to upgrade to for another two days, and when v26.06.7 arrived it was binaries only, with the source held back a further two weeks so attackers could not reverse-engineer the fixes. We (me + AI models) used that window. Ten AI models, one public source tree, the same five sentences of prompt, under $100 between them. Every report was hashed into the Bitcoin blockchain with OpenTimestamps as it was finished, nine days before upstream published the source, so none of it can be backdated. Reading source, the models found four of the nine defects the release fixed. Running "strings" on the public download found five more, and one of those is theft that pays for itself: as a forwarding node you refund the sender upstream, and the peer then claims the outgoing HTLC on-chain with the preimage it held the whole time. You pay twice and collect nothing. It was findable because the patched binary carries upstream's own new log line, FUNDS LOSS, which names the function, and the vulnerable code sat in the public v26.06.6 tree throughout. Three models at three price points landed on it within minutes of the download. The embargo hides the patch, but not the mechanism. Write-up: juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2… Full case-study, reports and timestamps: github.com/jooray/CLN-incide…

dearsouthafrica.co.za/crypto… Read the above to educate yourself on how the South African central bank is trying to make it more difficult to own and use private money, and how it wants to suppress business crypto payments. You can also use it to submit comments to SARB before 30 Sept

Quand t'essaies de builder rigolo entre 2 trucs de cybersécu. Ici, @beBOPcommunity , on choisit un PWYW, on paie en CB (test), un be-BOP-IoT ESP32 en wifi en série sur une imprimante thermique imprime le bon, le qr, on scanne, on a des SATs. Soon (2-3 mois) chez n'importe qui.

You can say what you want about Iran but they're definitely pretty unique in their communication: never seen a country threaten another with a math equation before 😅 For those who didn't get it: there is a famous monetary policy formula used by the Fed called the "Taylor rule" that says a central bank's policy rate (i) should equal the neutral real rate (r*) plus target inflation (π*), plus 1.5 times the inflation gap and 0.5 times the output gap (the "i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*)" part of Ghalibaf's formula). Ghalibaf adds α(SOH−SOH*) and β(BEM−BEM*): SOH referring to the Strait Of Hormuz and BEM to Bab El-Mandeb. Both have positive coefficient, meaning the more those chokepoints are choked, the higher the rate the Fed would have to set to fight the resulting inflation. In a nutshell this is Ghalibaf trolling the Fed, telling them that Iran is - in a very real way - setting American monetary policy.

Security Advisory: We are investigating reports of a potential issue affecting experimental features in Core Lightning that may impact user funds. We urge all Core Lightning users running experimental features to disable them immediately while we investigate.

Want to accept bitcoin with @BtcpayServer and a non-custodial @blinkbtc wallet, just like Tax Free Norway, Oslo airport and the vendors at the upcoming @btchelevent conference?⚡ Blink just released this awesome tutorial on YouTube: piped.video/WmDMdjA1toI

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