Block 799835: Important News of the Week
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News
- Binance Completes Integration of Lightning Network For Deposits & Withdrawals
- Grant Renewals: Niklas Gögge & Daniela Brozzoni
- Truth Social Head of Engineering Resigns to Build Dito & Bring Best Parts of Mastodon to Nostr
- Kuwait Bans Bitcoin Payments, Investment & Mining
- District Court Dismisses Coin Center's Case Against Unconstitutional Financial Surveillance
- CoinSwap Developer Chris Belcher Shares a Glimpse Into His Fight Against Severe Long Covid
Updates and releases
- Blockstream Satellite v2.4.6: Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Ostrich.Work: First Nostr-Native Jobs Board Using Classifieds NIP
- NerdMiner v1.5.2: 45 KH/s Working with 2 Threads
- BitBanana v0.6.5 Released
- Fully Noded - Bitcoin Core v1.0.1: Fixes & Updates
- Hodl Hodl Lend Redesign: New Offer Pages & Improved Navigation
- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.8: Taproot Message Signing & More
- Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.60: New Languages, Smoother Payments & More
- Minibits Wallet: Mobile E-Cash Wallet with Focus on Usability
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet (SBW) To Drop Lightning In Next Release
- Mercury Wallet 0.9.0: Alpha Non-Custodial Lightning Wallet
- BDK v1.0.0-alpha.1: Experimental Release
- Nunchuk Android v1.9.33, iOS v1.9.28 Released
- Torq v1.0.3: Workflow Improvements, HTLC Firewalls, Subscriptions & More
- Boltz Web App v1.0.1 & Backend v3.2.1: Route-ability & Other Improvements
- RGB Core v0.10.5 and RGBEXplorer Released
- MyNode v0.3.19: Software Updates
- Lightning Terminal v0.10.2-alpha Released
- PlebLab Introduced New NostrDevs Course
- Frostsnap: Easy & Personalized Multisig with FROST
- Nostr.Kiwi Updates: Community's Articles, Chat, Zaps & More
- Swarmstr: Nostr Knowledge Hub for Curious Minds
- Clams v1.8.0: Channel Management
- Zeus v0.7.7-beta Is Available For Testing
- Nostr Data Vending Machine: A Marketplace for Data Processing
Guides and research
- Blixt Wallet 101: Cross Platform Non-Custodial Lightning Wallet
- Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #260
Mining stats
- The 7-day simple moving average hashrate currently sits near its highs ~382 EH/s.
- Next mining difficulty adjustment is expected to happen in 4 days on July 26, per mempool.space.
Lightning stats
- There is back just above 5000 BTC on the Lightning Network, per mempool.space.
- The number of nodes remained almost unchanged since last week, while the number of channels dropped below 68,000.
Nostr stats
- According to Primal.net explorer, Nostr added over 3000 new users this week.
- The number of daily active users dropped 10000 this week, while the number of weekly active users is still above 20000, per nostr.band stats.
