Block 795727: Important News of the Week

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News

• Binance Confirms It Is Working on Lightning Network Integration
• Fake Trezor Wallet App Tops Search Results For Trezor in Apple's App Store
• A Non-Custodial Exchange Backed By Citadel, Fidelity and Schwab Launched
• Brink Renews Sebastian Falbesoner's Grant For His Work on BIP-324
• Riga Bitcoin Week 2023 Agenda, Cypherpunk Stage At Baltic Honeybadger 2023 Announced
• Ledger Recover Technical Whitepaper Released
• BitGo Terminates Agreement to Acquire Prime Trust, Client Deposits and Withdrawals Frozen
• IMF Confirms It Is Working on A Global Platform For CBDCs
• New Spiral Grantee: Matthew Ramsden, Pavlenex Grant Renewed
• Millions of GitHub Repos Likely Vulnerable to RepoJacking

Releases and Updates

• Eclair v0.9.0: Dual Funding, Splicing Prototype, Bolt 12 & More
• NDK v0.5.4 Released + Video Tutorials
• SimpleX Server Now Available for StartOS
• Appothica - App Store for Progressive Web Apps Is Now Open Source
• Direct Messages, Custom Notifications Are Now Live on Primal, Mobile Apps May Be Coming Soon
• Voltage Launched Surge Node Monitoring Tool
• Electrum v4.4.5 Released: Bug Fixes
• Nostur v1.1.0: Performance Improvements, Fixes & More
• CivKit Node v0.0.1 Released: Basic NIP-01 Support
• 10101 v1.0.20: Beta Testing Back on Mainnet
• Mutiny Wallet and Node Updates: Smoother and Safer Experience
• umbrelOS v0.5.4: Reimagined App Store
• BitBox App v4.37.1 Released, Shift Crypto Rebranded To BitBox
• Boltz Web App: Liquid, Bitcoin and Lightning Under One Roof
• Peach Bitcoin v0.2.9: Fund Escrow from Peach Wallet, Increased Performance
• Highlighter v0.7.0: Encrypted Long-form Events & Notes
• Sparrow v1.7.7: High Fee Environment Improvements & More
• Trezor Suite v23.6.1: Smoother Coinjoin Process
• StartOS v0.3.4.3: Improved Tor Reliability
• LDK Node v0.1.0: A Ready-To-Go Lightning Node Library
• Stacker.News App v1.0.5: Layout Improvements, Bug Fixes & More
• GrapheneOS Now Available on Pixel Tablet
• Blockstream Green Mobile v4.0.9 and Desktop v1.2.2 Updates
• Live.Snort.Social: Streaming on Nostr
• Amethyst v0.62.0 & Onyx v0.61.4: Live Streams & Live-Streaming Chats
• Ministry of Nodes Nodebox: Plug and Play Bitcoin Node

Research

• Bitcoin Optech #256: Extending BOLT11 Invoices to Request Two Payments
• Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship

Mining stats

• The next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is estimated to occur in slightly less than 600 blocks or approximately 4 days.
• The average 7-day simple moving average hashrate has went down to ~372 EH/s, according to mempool.space.

Lightning stats

• The total Lightning Network capacity has increased by more than 53 BTC last week. This was followed by increases in total nodes (+0.5%) and channels (+0.3%) on the network.