Block 786500: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Bhutan Sovereign Investment Fund Secretly Held Millions of Dollars in Cryptocurrency
- Silk Road Hacker Sentenced For One Year and One Day In Prison For Wire Fraud
- Unchained Raises $60M Series B Round, Rebrands
- Intel Discontinues Bitcoin Mining Chip Series Amid A Cost-Cutting Spree
- Apple's iOS 17 Might Set The Stage For Sideloading Apps on iPhone
- Michael Saylor's Rationale Behind MicroStrategy Lightning Email Addresses
- Former National Security Council Chief of Cybersecurity on Censoring Bitcoin
- Coinbase Threatens To Move Its Base Outside US, Cites Lack of Regulatory Clarity
- Trezor Launches Coinjoin Integration with Wasabi Wallet
- PSA: Upgrade Your LUKS Key Derivation Function
- EU Parliament Passes FATFs Travel Rule & MiCA Licensing Regulations
- Mullvad VPN Was A Subject To A Search Warrant, No Customer Data Found
- Coinbase Gets Bermuda License, Plans To Launch Offshore Derivatives Exchange
- Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Freed Pending Trial
- NIP-94 Merged: File Sharing on Nostr
Releases and updates
- MyCitadel v1.2.0: More Supported Hardware Signers
- BTCPay Server v1.9.1: Bug Fixes
- BitBox App v4.37: Blümlisalp Update
- Blockstream Green Mobile v4.0.0: Redesigned Mobile Experience
- Descriptor Wallet v0.9.2: Improved Command-line Explorer
- n3xB: Naive Nostr No-KYC Exchange for Bitcoin
- BDK v0.28.0 Released
- Nutstash Wallet v0.1.10: Available on Umbrel App Store
- MyNode v0.3.15 Released
- Mutinynet: Custom Signet with 30 Second Blocks
- Muun Wallet v2.7.5: Improved Reliability, Unified QR
- Ananostr: A Craiglist Alternative on Nostr
- Nunchuk Desktop v1.9.18: UI Improvements
- Plebstr v0.3.0: Direct Messages
- Snort v0.1.7: Per Event Zap Targets, Polls, Link Previews
- AgoraDesk Mobile App Is Officially Out of Beta
- Zapworthy: Nostr Highlights
- Electrum v4.4.0: New Android GUI, Privacy Features
- Strom: Lightning/Nostr Enabled OCPP Bridge
- Balance of Satoshis v14.0.0 Released
- RoninDojo v2.0.0: Switched OS from Manjaro to Debian
- Wavman: Open Source Music Player for Nostr
- Tor Browser v12.0.5: Updates & Bug Fixes
- Polar v1.4.1: Latest Node Implementation Versions
- Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.43 Released
- JoininBox v0.7.7: Custom Change Address Option In Send
- LNbits v0.10.4 Released
- Amethyst v0.34.1: Support for NIP-94, Fixes
Guides and Research
- A Technical Overview of Taproot Outputs and MuSig2
- Bitcoin Hardware Wallets Overview (2023)
Mining Stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has adjusted upwards yet again this week and reached a new all-time high of 48.71T.
- Average 7-day simple moving average of Bitcoin hashrate is currently hovering around 352 EH/s.
- The mempool has cleared several times this week, following a prolonged period of higher fees prompted by the Ordinals hype.
Lightning Stats
- The Lightning Network node count has slightly increased this week, while the total network capacity and channel count have both decreased by less than 1%.
