Block 794754: Important News of the Week

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News

• Julian Assange Loses US Extradition Challenge, Will Reappeal
• RoboSats Admin Banned From Telegram, Communications Moved to Matrix, SimpleX & Nostr
• Hackers Stole $3 Million By Impersonating Crypto Journalists
• Build On L2 Supports VLS Integration into Greenlight with $150K Grant
• Oslo Freedom Forum 2023 Day 1, Day 2 and Financial Freedom Track Streams
• Damus To Be Removed From Apple's App Store in 14 Days Due To Zaps
• Atomic Wallet Heist Tops $100 Million, Method Still Unknown, Says Surveillance Firm Elliptic
• Zapping Notes Is Not Allowed, Says Apple, As The Battle For Zaps on App Store Continues
• Zeus v0.7.6 Update Rejection By Apple Highlights A Need For Open Alternatives
• Blockstream's ASIC Miner To Launch in Q3 of 2024
• Jack Dorsey's #startsmall Pledges $5M Over 5 Years To Support Bitcoin Developers
• Strike's 'Send Globally' Now Available in Mexico Thanks To Partnership with Relampago
• Block Opens Public Beta of Bitkey, Partners with Cash App and Coinbase
• U.S. Government Is Buying Intimate Data About Americans - Government Report
• Binance Pool Launches BTC Transaction Accelerator
• BlackRock's iShares Files For a Spot Bitcoin ETF
• MicroStrategy Lightning Platform To Debut In Q3 2023
• Nostr Protocol Surpasses 1 Million Zaps Milestone
• Leaked EU CBDC Bill Outlaws Interest, Programmability & Large Holdings

Releases and Updates

• NostrMesh: Self-Healing ESP32 Nostr-Arduino Based Mesh-Network
• BlueWallet v6.4.5 Released
• Nostore Signing Extension for MacOS Now Available on Apple App Store
• Arcade v0.1.0-beta: Nostr Chat MVP
• Postr: Payjoin Using Nostr
• Core Lightning v23.05.1: Bugfix Release
• Mnemonikey: Human-Readable PGP Key Backups
• BitMask v0.6.0 Beta: Mainnet Support, Taproot, RGB, Carbonado
• MyNode v0.3.18: Enabled mempoolfullrbf, App Upgrades
• Stacker.news Improvements: Tech Sub, Markdown Shortcuts & More
• Tails v5.14: LUKS2 with Argoin2id, Backups, Captive Portal Detection, Electrum Donations
• Bitcoin Satellite v0.2.4 on Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released
• Bitcoin Volunteer Opportunity Board for FOSS Projects Launched
• Citadel v0.2.3 and Citadel Nirvati Technical Preview Are Available to Download As Alpha Software
• Zeus v0.7.6 Released: Notes, Fiat Exchange Rates and POS Improvements
• BTC RPC Explorer v3.4.0: New Widgets, Tools, Bug Fixes & Polish
• Amethyst v0.58.2: Post Animations, Custom Reactions and Bug Fixes
• Torq v0.23.0: Open Telemetry Instrumentation, Jaeger Tracing & More
• GrapheneOS v2023061402: June Security Patch & Bug Fixes
• Bitcoin Keeper v1.0.5: Subscription Plans
• Nostr Sites: Turn Your Nostr Note Into A Webpage
• Snort v0.1.10: Gossip Model, NPM Package
• Floresta v0.4.0: New Features and Bug Fixes
• Alby v2.1.0: Maintenance & New APIs
• RGB Core v0.10.4 Released
• JoinInBox v0.8.0: Standalone Updates

Research

• Bitcoin Optech #255: Taproot Annex
• Report: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry
• Tracing ASIC Fingerprints to Reshape Our Understanding of Bitcoin Mining - Report
• SearchEngine.Party: Search Engines Classified by Privacy and Security

Mining stats

• Bitcoin mining difficulty increased once again, this time by 2.18% to 52.35T - a new network all-time high.
• Bitcoin hashrate (simple 7-day moving average) is also at its highs at ~380 EH/s, per mempool.space.

Lightning stats

• The total Lighting network capacity has gone up by slightly more than 10 BTC despite slightly reduced node count (-0.5% or 123 nodes fewer since last Saturday). The channel count also dropped below 70,000, from 70025 last week to 69082 today, per mempool.space estimations.