Learn how to send encrypted messages over the #BlockstreamSatellite network with Lightning in our latest #Deciphered explainer. Find out more about:

🛰 Why satellite matters

📡 Transmitting public & private messages

📝 How encryption works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9siQkBS34

Read the latest from #BlockstreamResearch on the development of open-source e-cash protocol Fedimint.

💾 Rebranding MiniMint to Fedimint

🧙‍♂️ Gaining developer traction

⚡️ Integrating Lightning

🌐 Signet coming soon

https://blog.blockstream.com/fedimint-update/

The Core Lightning team has just released v0.12.0 "Web-8 init."

The release includes new bookkeeper and commando plugins, emergency channel backups, zeroconf channels, Apple M1 support, various bug fixes, and more. 🔌⚡️🌐

https://blog.blockstream.com/core-lightning-v0-12-0/

In honor of Layer-2 Day at Baltic Honeybadger 2022, we’ve released a special edition of #LAYER2ROUNDUP, where we explore an underutilized function of the Blockstream Satellite: broadcasting public and private messages over the network using Lightning payments. 🛰️⚡️🌎

https://blog.blockstream.com/broadcasting-messages-in-space-with-lightning/

Learn more about the famous RSA encryption tshirt featuring code that was once designated as a munition, illegal to export from the US or show to a foreign national.

Get your own RSA encryption in Perl t-shirt in the #BlockstreamStore today!
https://store.blockstream.com/product/rsatshirt/

Catch the whole conversation on Citadel Dispatch with Dr. Adam Back and Matt Odell where they discuss privacy, speech, and #Bitcoin.
https://youtu.be/HL3iLnZSpJU

At Baltic Honeybadger 2022, we announced our collaboration on XDEX Finance, the world's first decentralized security token exchange. Today, we revisit XDEX with additional details on the soon-to-be-released mobile app.

https://blog.blockstream.com/xdex/

Using new opcodes on Liquid, we've implemented advanced smart contracts that illustrate Liquid's ability to serve as the financial layer for Bitcoin, including non-custodial limit orders (w/ partial fills) and options contracts. Learn more and read the full whitepaper 👇

https://blog.blockstream.com/use-smart-contracts-on-liquid-to-deploy-financial-products/

Learn more about the many privacy features in Blockstream Green in our latest video. We walk you through how to connect your Green wallet to Tor and a personal Electrum server, discuss how some 2FA methods are more private than others, how in-app transaction notes, account names, and other client data are auto-encrypted, as well as breakdown concepts like IP addresses and chainanalysis.

Be sure to like and subscribe to keep tabs on more Green tutorials coming soon. Also, comment below on any other features you'd like us to cover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqer3iKXyO0

Building on Bitcoin's second layer just got better.

Elements, the FOSS platform that Liquid is built on, just released v22.0.2 with improvements to:

✍️ PSET specs
🤝 DynaFed parameters
🧙 Brings Elements up to date with Bitcoin Core v22.0

Read more and upgrade below:

https://blog.blockstream.com/elements-v22-0-2-pset-spec-and-dynafed-updates/

The wait is over!

The much-anticipated Blockstream Jade camera has been activated for a fully air-gapped workflow when signing Bitcoin transactions.

Upgrade Jade to 0.1.41 and start signing air-gapped transactions with Blue, Nunchuk, Sparrow & Specter wallets.

https://blog.blockstream.com/blockstream-jade-qr-scan/

🔴PREMIERING NOW🔴

Watch as Blockstream CEO Dr. Adam Back joins Blockstream Talk to review the ongoing meltdown of FTX and Alameda research.

Live 🔽

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Izz1eB5eec

We are joining forces with Bitcoin companies and leaders in the space to spearhead a new initiative centered around building on Bitcoin's second layer.

Read the manifesto and get early access by signing up below.

https://blog.blockstream.com/build-on-l2/

Answer the call.

buildonl2.com/manifesto

In our latest Deciphered episode, we discuss the free and open-source Blockstream Explorer, which aggregates and indexes public data from the Bitcoin and Liquid blockchains and displays the information in an easy-to-read format. With the proper information, the Blockstream Explorer can look up any transaction, block, hash, or address on either network.

Join us as we do a full overview, explore the dashboard, and learn how to read a Bitcoin transaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7Jfu4bm94

Tree-shaped programs like Mininoscript (a subset of Bitcoin Script) are easy to read and analyze. Next-gen smart contracting language Simplicity follows in these footsteps, enabling arbitrary computation using a tree, which could bring covenants, delegation, zero-knowledge proofs, and much more to Bitcoin.

Read the latest from Blockstream Research:

https://blog.blockstream.com/from-mininoscript-to-simplicity/

Blockstream Engineer Leonardo Comandini gives an update on LiquidDEX, a working protocol that performs 2-step atomic swaps on Liquid. LiquidDEX can be used to implement more complex financial markets and systems such as automated OTC desks, auctions, and DEXs.

https://blog.blockstream.com/liquidex-v1-solving-the-rangeproof-issue/

Wield #Bitcoin

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Lawrence Nahum, Blockstream’s Chief Architect, discusses the use of secure elements in hardware wallets and how Blockstream Jade instead uses a blind oracle-enforced PIN to achieve similar security with greater simplicity and transparency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad3titeu9uY

Join us for the premiere of Blockstream Talk #18 featuring Rusty Russell, Lead Core Lightning Engineer, at 6:00pm EST today! Rusty shares his journey from Linux dev to Bitcoin, his favorite Lightning wallets, and discusses BOLT12 spec. Get notified below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwdgpoMgaJ0

The new Core Lightning v22.11 release is now out, codenamed "Alameda Yield Generator," a few highlights:

⚡️ reckless, a new manager that installs/uninstalls plugins with a single command
🧹 autoclean update, optimizes node performance and speed

Further details of new features and bug fixes ⬇️

https://blog.blockstream.com/core-lightning-v22-11-alameda-yield-generator/

Learn the tools, use the tools.

www.buildonl2.com