Block 797797: Important News of the Week
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News
- Belarus Wants to Ban Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Transactions
- Huobi Data Breach 'Almost' Leaked KYC Information of 4960 'Whale' Users
- Bitwage Disables USDC Payouts For US Residents Due To 'Strict Regulatory Climate'
- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Bitcoin, Regulation and ESG
- Potential Vulnerability in Lightning Backends: BOLT-11 'Payment Hash' Does Not Commit to Payment
- France Passes A Bill Allowing Police to Spy on Suspects Remotely
- FBI Searched Home of Kraken Founder Jesse Powell
- US Homeland Security Returns $314K of $3.6B Stolen in 2016 Bitfinex Hack
- Nostur Becomes Next Nostr App Heading to Apple's Zap Jail For 'Selling Digital Content'
- Bitcoin Startup Lab's Fall 2023 Cohort Is Open For Applications
- OpenSats Announced Long-Term Support Program For Bitcoin Developers & First Wave of Nostr Grants
- Brazilian Bitcoin Startup Bipa Raised $1.4M In Seed Round
Updates and Releases
- Bitcoin Script Project: Sharing Resources On The State of Bitcoin Development
- Bitpac: Publicly Auditable Cooperatives on Bitcoin
- Highlighter Chrome Extension v0.1.0 Released
- BlueWallet 6.4.6: New Languages, SeedQR Scanning
- Nostr.Kiwi: Communities on Nostr
- Arcade v0.2.0-beta: Blinded DMs
- Nodeyez v23.06: New Panels & Enhancements
- Lightning Prism PHP Library To Split Payments Using Lightning Addresses
- Bolt Card Point of Sale App for Apple Devices Released
- BitGo Added Support for Taproot MuSig2 on Bitcoin Hot Wallets
- LNbits v0.10.9: New Security Features
- Zap.Stream: Nostr Native Streaming with Sats
- Fully Noded - Bitcoin Core v1.0.0 Released
- ESP Miner Firmware v1.0 for Bitaxe v2 Open Source Miner Released
- Mutiny Node v0.3.16: NWC Profiles, BDK Core Alpha1 & More
- Lightning Orb v0.21.16 Released
- Wasabi Coinjoin v1.0 To Be Discontinued In Next Release
- Nostrcheck.me API Open Source Code Released
- LND v0.16.4-beta: Memory Leak Fix
- P-38: Using Lightning Network to Send Satellite Messages with Blockstream
- Zapple Pay: Zaps From Any Nostr Client
- Lightning Labs Releases Developer Tools for Powering APIs and Large Language Models
- Unchained Launches Signature For Premium Private Client Experience
- LNDg v1.7.0: Faster Dashboard Loads, Updated AutoFee Logic & More
- Amethyst v0.66.1: Communities, Live Streaming Browser & More
- CivKit Roadmap: BOLT12 Offers, Staking Credentials, Mainstay & More
- GrapheneOS and CalyxOS July Security Updates Released
- Primal Open Sources Its Web App Under MIT License
- Stack Duo v1.0.10 Released
- Peach Bitcoin v0.2.10: RBF Support
- Wallby Wallet Launched For Beta Testing
Research and Guides
- Pseudonymity: An FAQ for Bitcoiners
- A Technical Walkthrough of Hash Time Locked Contracts and Lightning Channel Operations
- Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker Shows 130 Countries Are Diving Into CBDCs
- Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #258
- Bitcoin Mining Around the World: United Arab Emirates
Mining stats
- Bitcoin transaction fees went back to single digits this week.
- The network hashrate (7 day MA) is starting to pick up again and is currently at ~369 EH/s.
- The next difficulty adjustment is estimated to occur in the next four days.
Lightning stats
- The total Lightning network capacity reached a new record and surpassed 5500 BTC, per mempool.space.
- The number of nodes is up by slightly less than a 100 nodes, while the total channel count decreased by 50 compared to last week.
Nostr stats
