Block 800772: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- LNDK Developer Alyssa Hertig Receives Spiral Grant
- Head of Chainalysis Investigations Admits There's No Scientific Evidence Proving Their Surveillance Software Works
- FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Decentralized Platform Users and Hosts
- HRF Launched 20 BTC Bounty Challenge for Improvements Requested by Activists
- PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation's Account Used For Donations
- Spiral Quarterly Update Q3 2023
- Adopting Bitcoin Conference 2024 Will Take Place on January 26-28 in Cape Town
Updates and releases
- Mempool.Space Introduced Mempool Clock, Calculator\
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.95 Released
- Electrs v0.10.0 Released
- LDK v0.0.116: Lightning Anchor Channels Support
- Iris Desktop App v0.2.0: New Features & Performance Improvements
- Mempool.Space Updates: Full RBF, P2PK Outputs & More
- Mutiny Wallet v0.4.4 Released, Android Version Is Available For Testing
- Amethyst v0.71.0: Geohash
- Breez SDK Core v0.1.4: Custom Errors & Bugfixes
- SimpleX Chat v5.2.0: Message Delivery Receipts
- GrapheneOS v2023072400 Released
- Cashu Nutshell v0.13.0: Ecash Seed Phrase Backups
- Mostro v0.7.8: Fixes & Improvements
- Arcade v0.3.2-beta: AI Chat, Performance Upgrades
- BTCPay Server v1.11.0: Reporting, PoS Cart Redesign, Payment Sounds & More
- CalyxOS New Available For Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold
- Geyser Integrates Zaps, Launches Grant For Bitcoin Educational Communities
- Primal Android App Is Officially in Beta, No Longer Read-Only
- Envoy Wallet v1.3.0: Redeem Azteco Vouchers with a Single QR Scan
- CivKit Orage: LN Node with Focus on Availability, Modularity & Security
- Thunderhub v0.13.20 Released
Guides and research
- Bitcoin Optech #261: Simplified LN Closing Protocol
- Bitcoin Bolt Ring: Contactless Lightning NFC Payment Ring
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted downwards by -2.94% to 52.33T on block 800352.
- The average 7-day simple moving average hashrate currently sits at ~375 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning Network capacity is at 4758 BTC, down by more than 200 BTC in the past seven days, per mempool.space.
- The total number of channels and nodes on the network remains relatively unchanged.
Nostr stats
- The number of Nostr users has grown to 541,527, up by more than 3800 in a week, per Primal.net.
- According to Nostr.Band stats, Nostr currently has nearly 9000 daily active users and over 22000 weekly active users.
