Block 796741: Important News of the Week
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News
- BTC Prague 2024 To Take Place on June 13-15, Early Bird Tickets Available Now
- Native American Catawba Nation Seeks Help In Growing Their Bitcoin-friendly Jurisdiction
- Damus Almost Got Removed From Apple's App Store
- Riot Platforms Partnership Brings Production of MicroBT's ASICs to America
- Spiral Renews Developer Grant for Thunderbiscuit
- Prime Trust Placed Into Receivership, Lost $82M of Customer Funds
- MicroStrategy Issued and Sold $333M Worth of Shares, Bought Another 12333 BTC
- Bitcoin Savings App Coinbits Caught in Prime Trust Fallout
- Tether & Bitfinex: Signed MOU with Georgia, Launched Bitfinex P2P, Issued $100k Grant to Qubes OS
- Slovakia Lowers Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax Rate From 39% To 7%
- North Carolina To Commission A $50K Treasury Study To Find Out Whether It Should Hold Bitcoin
- Kraken Ordered to Turn Over Its Users Data to IRS
Updates and releases
- Geyser Updates: Added Videos, Project Page Redesign
- Cashu Nutshell v0.12.1: Performance and Stability Improvements
- Gossip v0.7.0: UI and Relay Handling Improvements
- Oak Node v0.3.7: Nostr Wallet Connect Support
- Bitcoin Keeper v1.0.6: Whirlpool for Android Users
- Taproot Assets v0.2.2-alpha Released
- BTCPay Server v1.10.3: Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Damus v1.5 with Removed Note Zaps Approved on App Store
- Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK): A Payjoin SDK
- Blixt Wallet v0.6.8: Speedloader
- Nostr Nests Code Is Now Open Source
- Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) Beta Released
- Tor Browser v12.5: Improved User Experience
- GrapheneOS v2023062800 Introduces Experimental Pixel Fold Support
- Nostur v1.2.0: Viewing of Long Form Articles
- ZBD Launched Time-Based Bitcoin Rewards For Over 100 Android Games
- Bitmain Launched New Antminer S19j XP
- nsecBunker v1.0 Release Opens Up Nostr For Shared Projects and Companies
- SeedHammer v1.0.0: Reproducible Builds
- BitBox App v4.38.0, Firmware v9.14.1: Updates & Security Improvements
- Core Lightning v23.05.2: Bugfix Release
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.94 Released
- Amethyst v0.64.0: New Logo, Cashu Token Support, UI Changes
Research
- Bitcoin Optech #257: Preventing the Pinning of Coinjoin Transactions
- Simplicity: Holes and Side Effects
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted downwards by -3.26%, down to 50.65T.
- The average hashrate (7 day MA) also went down to 362 EH/s.
- The most commonly cited reason for the downwards adjustment are power outages in Southern US.
Lightning stats
- The total Lightning Network capacity has gone up by another 8 BTC, per mempool.space.
- The total visible node count decreased by 16 nodes, along with 87 channels.
