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.

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