Block 787537: Important News of the Week

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News

• Tor To Implement Proof Of Work Client Puzzle To Mitigate DoS Attacks
• Gemini Introduces A Non-US Crypto Derivatives Platform
• 700M Users Of Telegram Can Now Buy, Receive, Withdraw and Trade Bitcoin P2P
• UK's Online Safety Bill Takes Aim at End-to-End Encryption
• Every Wallet Generated With Trust Wallet Browser Extension Allowed For Stealing User Funds
• Amboss Raised $4M In Seed Funding Round Led By Stillmark
• Bitcoin Optech #248: Proposed Removal of BIP35 Mempool P2P Message
• Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund Is Backing 13 Bitcoin Developers Fighting CSW
• Bitcoin Whitepaper Removed In The Upcoming MacOS Update
• Brazil Court Bans Telegram (Again) For Not Sharing Information
• Spiral Distributed More Than $7M In Grants To Open Source Projects & Developers
• Bitcoin Policy Summit 2023: Panels, Video, Highlights
• Surveillance Firm Chainalysis Releases Report Identifying Russian Military Bitcoin Activity Then Deletes It
• Twitter Is Complying With More Government Demands Under Musk
• Lightningcon Vietnam 2023 Talks Are Available Online
• U.S. Regulators Rush To Rescue First Republic Bank
• Canada Passes Controversial Online Streaming Bill C-11
• Block's Bitcoin Mining ASIC Program Is Moving Forward

Releases and Updates

• Balance of Satoshis v15.0.0 Released
• Bluewallet v6.4.1: Payment Codes
• Mutiny Node v0.2.6: BDK Core + IndexedDB; Mutiny Node v0.2.8 Released
• LND v0.16.1-beta: Bug Fixes and Optimizations, LND v0.16.2: Fixes For Some Performance Regressions
• LDK v0.0.115: Rebroadcast the Bugfixes
• Current App v0.0.8: Badges, Relay Management, Plebhy
• Coinstr: Bitcoin Collaborative Custody Using Nostr
• Amethyst v0.35.0 (NIP-94 Descriptions), v0.36.0 (Private Relays), v0.37.4 (Zap Forwarding) Released
• Soma: A Spacechain On Signet With Anyprevout + Web App
• Strike's Send Globally Feature Now Available in Guatemala
• Lightning Loop v0.23.0-beta: MuSig2 As Default Swap Protocol
• Lightning Terminal v0.9.1-alpha: Software Updates
• Nunchuk Android v1.9.29 & iOS v1.9.24: Advanced Coin Control
• LiquidOps by bolt.observer: Automated Node Management
• Preturnio: Full-text Bitcoin Blockchain Search Engine
• BTCPay Server v1.9.2: Bug Fixes
• Chantools v0.11.0 Released
• Galoy v0.6.48: Features, Updates and Bug Fixes
• MyCitadel Desktop v1.3.0: More Advanced Miniscripts
• Electrum v4.4.1: Bug Fixes

Guides and Research

• Taproot Channel Transactions: An Overview
• The Emerging Bitcoin-Native Venture Capital Landscape 2022 - Report

Mining Stats

• Following five upward Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustments in a row (since February 13, 2023), Mempool.space currently estimates a downward adjustment of ~5%.
• Mempool has become crowded again in the second half of the week, signaling growing demand for Bitcoin block space and higher fees for high-time preference network users.

Lightning Stats

• The Lightning Network node and channel count have slightly decreased this week, while the total network capacity went up by ~7 BTC, per Mempool.space.