Block 791661: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- tbdxxx Named as Ark: Privacy Preserving Layer 2 Bitcoin Scaling Solution
- Bitcoin 2024 Will Take Place In Nashville on July 25-27 Next Year
- Bottlepay App Is Closing Down Again
- Bitwage Integrates with 23 Payroll Providers to Cover 'Almost Any Employer in The United States'
- BitMEX Renews Sjors Provoost's Bitcoin Developer Grant
- Amboss Privacy Policy Raises Concerns About Sharing User Information with Third-Parties
- Hong Kong To Open Bitcoin Trading For Retail From June 1st
- Ledger Pauses The Launch of Recover Service, Accelerates Open Source Roadmap
- BIT Mining and Chain Reaction to Develop 'Next-Generation Systems for Bitcoin Mining'
- Azteco Bitcoin Vouchers Now Available at 3000+ Vendors in Costa Rica
- bolt.observer To Open Source Its LiquidOps Solution
- WalletScrutiny.com Is Down Due to DMCA Takedown Notice By a Custodial Exchange
- Tornado Cash Developer Challenges Chainalysis Data Alleging Criminal Links
- The Power of Lightning Summit To Take Place on July 13-14 in Nashville
- Brink Receives $50K From BitMEX, Fundraiser with Marathon Nears $800K
- Bitcoin 2023 Open Source Stage Day 1 and Day 2 Talks
- IRS To Send Agents Abroad To Fight P2P, Mixing, DeFi and Crypto Crimes
- Indonesia Bitcoin Conference Will Take Place on October 26-27
Updates and releases
- Fedi Alpha Is Now Available For Testing
- SeedHammer v0.11.1: Constant Time Engraving
- EmbassyOS Renamed to StartOS, v0.3.4.2 Released
- Voltage Partners with Google Cloud to Expand Hosting and Locations
- Mercury Wallet v0.8.13: Required Upgrade
- Torq v0.22.1: Core Lightning
- Nostr Zap: Zap Any Nostr Npub From Anywhere
- LNDK: External Bolt 12 Support for LND
- Nutstash Wallet v0.1.12 Released
- RaspiBlitz v1.9.0: Updates & New Apps
- Neutronpay Launches Enterprise API, Partners with Bitnob, Pouch.ph
- Mutiny Releases Signet Version of Its Web Wallet
- Trezor Suite v23.5.2: May Update
- Polar v2.0.0: Taproot Assets Protocol Daemon Support
- LNbits v0.10.8 Released
- ZapGate: Paywalls on Nostr
- Lava: Bitcoin-Native Lending & Borrowing Protocol
- Liquid Swaps by Boltz: Lightning-Liquid Atomic Swaps
- Start9 Labs Introduces Server Lite and 2023 Server One
- Nunchuk Android v1.9.31: Batched Transactions
- Payjoin v0.8.0 Released
- Primal Adds Saved Searches, Curated Hashtags
- Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released
- Bitrefill Integrates Login with Lightning
- Nostream v1.25.2: Recommended Bug Fix
- BitBanana v0.6.2: Advanced Channel Details
Guides and research
- RoboSats Guide: Simple & Private Lightning-based P2P Exchange
- Bitcoin Optech #252: Zero-Knowledge Validity Proofs
- Ark: Layer 2 Protocol For Cheap, Anonymous Off-chain Payments
- Darkpool (Tarpit): Privacy Preserving Cooperative Self-Custody Pool on Bitcoin
Mining stats
- Bitcoin 7-day moving average hashrate is currently hovering around its all time high at ~362 EH/s.
- The Bitcoin network fees have remained relatively stable throughout the week. It would take ~34 -40 sat/vB to get into the next few blocks, per mempool.space.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning Network capacity has gone up by approximately 33 BTC during the last week. The total node count has gone up by nearly 1%, up 145 from the week before, while the total channel count has gone down by nearly 200 channels.
