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 Nostr-based P2P marketplace while staying non-custodial. Adds multi-source price aggregation and maker-timeout penalties. • BULL Wallet v6.11.1 - 2026-06-22 CSV export, payment notes, auto swap-claim retries, better Electrum reliability, experimental Linux desktop support. • Peach Bitcoin 0.69.0 - 2026-06-25 Faster funding-flow sync, but ships a new EU-compliance sign-up step. Worth naming the privacy/compliance tradeoff for a no-KYC-leaning audience. On-chain privacy / coinjoin • Ashigaru Desktop 1.0 - 2026-06-24 Ashigaru Desktop 1.0.0 (June 19, 2026) is the inaugural stable release of the Whirlpool coinjoin desktop wallet, shipping Tx0/zeroleak mixing with Premix/Postmix/Badbank account management, built-in Tor, Mix To for routing postmix funds offline, a receive-only attack-surface reduction model, BIP-329 label import/export, and an offline BIP47 message verifier. It also adds a polished dark-theme UI with live coinjoin progress tracking, full cross-platform packaging (Windows/macOS/Linux plus headless server builds), reproducible builds, and BIP47-signed three-step release verification. • JoinMarket NG 0.33.0 - 2026-06-24 Correction/update from earlier 0.32.0 note. 0.33.0 adds forced-address-reuse defences, a config center, TUI send validation, wallet history API work, and fidelity-bond / tumbler fixes. • Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 - 2026-06-28 This release adds P2P sync for compact filters, pay-in-coinjoin, sub-1 sat/vByte fees, payment batching, a Scheme scripting language, Signet support, and Tor forward compatibility. It also broadens platform reach with arm64 Linux, Tails, and Whonix support. • Payjoin Dev Kit payjoin-mailroom 0.1.2 - 2026-06-26 Hardens the combined Payjoin Directory and OHTTP Relay with bounded file-descriptor usage, recovery from transient accept errors, database/per-request metrics, and unified mailbox TTL. General wallet / spend • Stack Wallet 2.6.0 - 2026-06-27 Adds CakePay gift-card support. EDUCATION • The Fed Is Working on a CBDC The Rage reports that despite public denials, the Fed is internally researching CBDC design. A concrete surveillance-money piece that pairs directly with the 702 lapse for a “financial panopticon” segment. Also pair with the new ROAD to Housing Act CBDC-ban item: the ban runs only through 2030, which is the punchline. • BIP 110 Fork Simulator / explainer Interactive explainer of the BIP 110 “Reduced Data Temporary Softfork”: activation mechanics, what gets restricted, and how the data-filtering debate could split consensus. • How-To Guide: Running an Ecash Mint Hands-on Cashu / LNbits + Nutshell mint walkthrough. Ecash is the privacy tech of the moment; a good “run your own mint” counterweight to “just use a wallet.” • Bitcoin Privacy in 2026: A Practical Guide Dated 2026-06-04, outside even the grace cutoff, so use as evergreen rather than news. Good “where do listeners actually start” resource. • Bitcoin Optech #411 Carries the LND zero-timestamp DoS disclosure plus the usual protocol-discussion roundup. Patch reminder for node runners. • Bitcoin Optech #410 Summarises an active dev debate to remove opt-in RBF signaling because it now mainly fingerprints the wallet that created the transaction, plus Sparrow Silent Payments, JoinMarket, and Ark items. KEEP AN EYE ON • EU “Chat Control” final trilogue - Patrick Breyer / fightchatcontrol.eu The fourth and likely final trilogue on the permanent CSAM-scanning regulation is set for Monday 2026-06-29. Member states have reportedly dropped the forced encrypted-message-scanning mandate, but the Council text would still codify “voluntary” scanning and extend the interim derogation, with formal adoption expected in July. Outcome not yet known as of record date. • MiCA enforcement after July 1 - ESMA / Bull Bitcoin Bull Bitcoin is the self-custody-friendly example to watch, while ESMA’s wind-down warning is the enforcement backdrop. After July 1, check which EU-accessible services remain available, which providers stop onboarding, and whether “compliant but non-custodial” survives contact with implementation. TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donate HELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDONSIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools DONATE TO THE FAMILIES ----> https://www.givesendgo.com/billandkeonneSUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you…
