Block 808000: Important News of the Week

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News

• ERCOT Paid Riot Platforms $7 Million to Shut Down During Heat Wave in August
• Chainalysis Denounces Bitcoin Core Contributor Bryan Bishop as 'Unqualified' to Audit Its Code
• Revolut Added SegWit Wallets After Joining Travel Rule Surveillance Trade Group
• Human Rights in Finance Foundation.EU Initiated Annulment Procedure for Travel Rule
• F2Pool to Return 20 BTC Tx Fee to Owner if It's Claimed Within 3 Days
• Fortress Lost Customer Funds Prior to Acquisition by Ripple
• August 2023 Mining Updates: Marathon, Core Scientific, CleanSpark, Iris & More
• Bull Bitcoin Kicks Off International Expansion in Costa Rica in Partnership with Bitcoin Jungle
• Paxos Identified as Fat Finger Entity in 20 BTC Fee Mistake
• Samara Asset Group Donates $10,000 in BTC for Bitcoin Education for Women in Africa
• F2Pool Returned 19.8 BTC Fee Overpayment Back to Paxos
• Swan Bitcoin Partners with BitGo to Create USA's First Bitcoin-Only Trust Company
• Tor Browser, Tails Issued Patches for WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit Affecting All Major Browsers

Project updates and releases

• eNuts Wallet v0.0.3: First Public Beta Release
• RoboSats v0.5.2-alpha: Updates and Improvements
• CLBOSS v0.13: Bring Back to Life Release
• Nostr Design Initiative Launched
• Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.5.1: RBF/CPFP for Hardware Wallets
• LNbits v0.10.10: Quality & Performance Improvements
• SeedSigner v0.7.0: Reproducible Builds, Faster Startup & More
• Amethyst v0.76.0: GiftWrapped Push Notifications
• Nodeyez v23.08: Bitcoin Fee Estimates, LND Messages
• Current App v0.1.3: Nostr + Bitcoin + AI
• Nunchuk Byzantine: Collaborative Custody Platform-as-a-Service
• Ditto v0.1.0-alpha: Soapbox on Nostr
• Emeralize v0.1.0: Now Open Source
• GrapheneOS and CalyxOS September Security Updates Released
• Core Lightning v23.08.1: Bugfix Release
• Cashu LNURL: LN Address Payments via Cashu & Nostr
• MyCitadel v1.5: UI Improvements, Fixes & More
• GPUtopia: Sell GPU Capacity for Sats
• MyNode v0.3.20: Feature Upgrades, Enhanced Debugging Tools
• Amboss Launched Hydro: Automated Lightning Liquidity Solution
• Torq v1.1.1: Notifications via Workflows, Discord Integration & More
• ZeroSync's Header Chain Verifier: Instant Bitcoin Header Chain Verification
• Parmanode v3.6.2: BTC RPC Explorer, electrs & More

Guides and research

• Bitcoin Optech 268: Specifications for Taproot Assets, LN Messaging Changes for PTLCs

Mining stats

• Bitcoin network hashrate (7 day moving average) has exploded upwards in the last few days and is currently reaching 406 EH/s.
• Next network difficulty adjustment is expected in approximately 3 days or 420 blocks.
• Next Bitcoin network halving is just 32000 blocks away.

Lightning stats

• Lightning network capacity has grown by nearly 80 BTC more this week, along with 240+ new channels.
• The total number of Lightning nodes has gone down by 15 in the last 7 days.

Nostr sats

• There are 3500+ new Nostr users this week, per Primal.net.
• According to stats.nostr.band, Nostr currently has ~9400 daily active users, with over 21000 weekly active users last week.