Seth is VP of Cake Wallet, a self custody bitcoin wallet available on ios, android, and desktop. We discuss their new offline companion app, Cupcake, and variety of other privacy related topics.

Seth on Nostr: https://primal.net/sethforprivacy
Seth on X: https://x.com/sethforprivacy
Cake Wallet: https://cakewallet.com/

EPISODE: 179
BLOCK: 916494
PRICE: 909 sats per dollar

(00:00:01 ) UK Digital ID Dystopia

(00:01:02 ) Happy Bitcoin Friday

(00:03:01 ) Samourai arrests fallout and Ashigaru vs Wasabi vs JoinMarket

(00:06:49 ) Coordinator trust, liquidity, and taint/frozen funds

(00:12:10 ) Cake Wallet updates and unveiling Cupcake signer

(00:15:36 ) How Cupcake works: air-gapped signer, BCUR/BBQR, threat models

(00:19:01 ) Travel, opsec, and device choices for Cupcake

(00:21:30 ) Cupcake’s scope vs hardware wallets

(00:25:21 ) Multisig discussions, open standards, and future features

(00:29:43 ) Single sig and practical custody advice

(00:30:29 ) Recent Monero Attack

(00:36:21 ) ASIC resistance debate and Monero reorg analysis

(00:41:02 ) Wild idea: switch Monero to Litecoin’s Scrypt ASICs

(00:43:19 ) Lightning in Cake Wallet: evaluating Ark vs Spark

(00:49:37 ) Spark’s pragmatism, privacy concerns, and operators

(00:56:40 ) Strike/Primal, Cashu, and custodial vs self-custodial tradeoffs

(00:58:56 ) Hands-on with Spark in Wallet of Satoshi beta

(01:05:02 ) Bitcoin privacy outlook: Silent Payments, PayJoin, Lightning

(01:06:14 ) Silent Payments UX: Frigate server model and performance

(01:09:17 ) Run your own node for privacy and practical setups

(01:09:51 ) Closing reflections: builders vs discourse, optimism

Video: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqmytsgrtq3s8zeqt6cgfsw4vlemyfrz5z02ylhkp7tm08ztuc2ysryw55x

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