Dan Gould

@bitgould

Dedicated to the bitcoin privacy problem、Lead Maintainer @payjoindevkit

Taiwan、New England

bitgould.com

Joined June 2011

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Dan Gould
@bitgould
Aug 12
We shipped stable Payjoin Dev Kit 1.0 Thank you to all of the contributors and supporters for helping the team get here. Real world payjoin is ready.
Payjoin Dev Kit
@payjoindevkit
Aug 12
Payjoin Dev Kit 1.0 is here. The Rust implementation of BIP 77 and BIP 78 payjoin is stable on crates.io, with foreign language bindings for wallets that aren't written in Rust available in Dart, C#, JavaScript, Python & more payjoin.org/blog/2026/08/1…
Dan Gould
@bitgould
Aug 14
Privacy is essential for physical security. These leaks will persist.
Jameson Lopp
@lopp
Aug 14
More bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks. The French tax authority has been hacked and 678K records leaked. 26,805 people with income over 100K€ 386 people with income over 1M€ 8 people with income over 10M€ frenchbreaches.com/alertes/direct…
Dan Gould
@bitgould
Aug 13
payjoin-1.0 shipped this week 3 years after it was named @payjoindevkit. 29 people wrote the code that went into it from 0.24, a majority of them being volunteers. Here's what they shipped. Full list in the release notes:
Release Release payjoin-1.0.0 · payjoin/rust-payjoin
From github.com
Dan Gould
@bitgould
Aug 13
Lots of cyberattacks and scams come from compounds of enslaved people working on warlord territory in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. This is for them.
Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime
From whitehouse.gov
Dan Gould
@bitgould
Aug 12
Bitcoin privacy wins have empirically come from interactive protocols like coinjoin, lightning, and ecash. Payjoin is the base case interaction that works in a normal payment flow. 2 parties, 1 interaction. That's why I bet it's got the highest odds to evolve into a lasting fix.