Block 793717: Important News of the Week

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News

• Atomic Wallet Hack: At Least 1% of Users Affected, $35M+ Stolen, Surveillance Firm Elliptic Says North Korea's Lazarus Group Responsible For The Hack
• Pete Rizzo's Twitter Account Has Been Compromised
• Bcademy, Boltz, Equitas, JAN3, Maven and Mifiel Joined The Liquid Federation
• EU Study Calls for Additional Invasive Regulation via 'Euro Wallet,' Still Calls Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work Outdated Tech
• SEC Sued Binance and CZ For 'Blatant Disregard of the Federal Securities Laws,' Named Coins It Deemed As Securities
• Operation Triangulation: iOS Devices Targeted with Previously Unknown Malware
• El Salvador's Volcano Energy Secures $1B in Commitments for 241 MW Bitcoin Mine
• SEC Sues Coinbase For Running Unregistered Securities Exchange, Brokerage and Clearing Agency
• SEC Moves to Freeze Binance.US Assets
• Chrome Update Addresses New Zero-Day Exploit
• Stakwork Pledged $180K For Bitcoin Development
• Riot Platforms Awarded Research Grant to Tobin C. Harding
• May 2023 Mining Ops Updates: Riot, Marathon, Core Scientific, Cipher, Stronghold, CleanSpark & More
• Amboss Launched LINER Index For Measuring Cost and Yield on The Lightning Network
• Bitcoin-Denominated Life Insurer Sets Up Shop with $19M Funding From Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI & Google's VC Fund
• Rumor: Prime Trust Was On The Verge of Bankruptcy, Users Urged To Withdraw Funds From Exchanges
• BitGo Signed Letter of Intent to Acquire Prime Trust
• Vexl Foundation and Financial Tyranny Index Launched by SatoshiLabs
• Binance.US To Be Cut Off From The Banking System, Crypto.com Stops US Institutional Exchange
• DOJ Charges Two Russians For Attempt To Launder 647000 BTC Stolen From Mt Gox

Releases and Updates

• Seed Tool v2.1.0: Updated Styling and Bug Fixes
• TBD Launched Tech Preview of Web5 Verifiable Credentials Toolkit
• Parmanode v3.3.7: Electrum Desktop Wallet
• Satellite CDN: Scalable Media Hosting For The Nostr Ecosystem
• Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.51: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
• eNuts (Alpha): Mobile Cashu Wallet with Lightning Support
• Blockstream's Greenlight - Scalable, Non-Custodial Lightning Infrastructure Is Now Open to Developers
• LND v0.16.3-beta: Mempool Optimizations & Bug Fixes
• Onyx: A Censorship-Free Fork of Amethyst
• Cashcrab: Cashu Wallet with Flutter UI
• BTCPay Server v1.10.2: Bug Fixes
• Lightning Terminal v0.10.1-alpha: Updates and Bug Fixes
• Musig Playground: Send BTC With Multiple People While Looking Like One Person
• Tor Browser v12.0.7 Released
• ZEBEDEE Integrated ZBD App with Nostr
• Lnprotest: Lightning BOLT Protocol Test Framework
• Fedi Launched First Ever Pop-Up Federation For BTC Prague Event
• GrapheneOS v2023060700 Released
• Strike Moved To Its Own Infrastructure, Rolls Out New Features and Capabilities
• MercuryLayer: A New Mercury Statechain Protocol
• Amethyst v56.4: NIP-89 Notes, Compressed Uploads & More
• Coracle v0.2.30: Mostly Maintenance
• Nunchuk iOS v1.9.26: Batched Transactions
• Electrs v0.9.14: Fixes and Updates

Guides and Research

• Miner Fee Gathering Capability: Out of Band Fees
• nsecBunker: How To Set Up Your Nostr Keys Management Fortress
• Bitcoin Optech #254: Using MATT to Replicate CTV & Manage Joinpools
• BIP for Silent Payments Is Out For Review
• A New Class of ECDSA Signature Vulnerability Observed in the Wild on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Mining stats

• Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is expected to happen in 580 blocks or approximately 4 days.
• Bitcoin hashrate (simple 7-day moving average) is reaching new highs at ~375 EH/s.

Lightning stats

• Total Lightning Network capacity has gone up by nearly 40 BTC despite the total notal node and channel count going down by approximately 1% this week, per mempool.space.