“Herd immunity” in #Bitcoin node security 🛡️ Even if you don’t upgrade to patch vulnerabilities (like recent CVE-2024-52919), you are afforded protection when other nodes do. @craigraw , @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 , @Rob Hamilton and Odell discuss node vulnerabilities and attacker incentives in BR096.

Should Sparrow bring indexing in-house? 🛠️ @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 and @craigraw discuss trade-offs of relying on Bitcoin Core vs. building local indexers. Electrum server rewrites are notoriously hard (and often abandoned). Full context in BR096.