CD179: SETH FOR PRIVACY QUARTERLY UPDATE

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,…