Block 801822: Important News of the Week

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News

• Coinbase CEO: SEC Asked To Stop Trading In Everything Except Bitcoin
• HRF Bounty #11: Non-Custodial Mobile Wallet with BIP47 Payment Codes
• Bitcoin ATM Firm Bity Takes On Swiss Regulator For 'Undemocratic' KYC Limits
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance
• Coinbase Is Still 'Looking Into How To Best Add Lightning'
• Someone Used Rewards Bug on Stacker.News to Withdraw 20M Sats
• MicroStrategy Acquired 467 BTC in July, Prepares to Raise Up To $750M More
• Following Scrutiny in Kenya and Europe, Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System
• Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia
• Fitch Downgraded U.S. Long-Term Debt Citing Structural Concerns About U.S. Budget Deficits
• Ilya Lichtenstein and Razzlekhan Pleaded Guilty to Bitfinex 2016 Heist and Money Laundering Conspiracy
• Nearly Half of Block's $5.5 Billion Q2 Revenue Came From Bitcoin Sales
• Voltage Partners with Human Rights Foundation to Help Dissidents, NGOs Accept Bitcoin Donations

Releases and updates

• Zeus v0.7.7: Fixes and Improvements
• Timechain Calendar v0.3: Last 24 Hours of Blocks, Improved Layout & More
• Blink (ex-Bitcoin Beach) Wallet v2.2.105 Adds LNURL Paycodes
• Alby Extension v3.0.0: Mnemonic Master Seed For Bitcoin, Nostr and LNURL-auth Keys
• Stemstr: Create, Connect, and Collaborate on Music via Nostr
• Minibits v0.0.7-alpha: Offline Send + Receive
• BTCPay Server v1.11.1: Bug Fixes
• Nodeless Is Now Open Source: Receive BTC & Lightning Payments Without a Node
• Amber v0.0.2: Nostr Event Signer for Android
• Blockstream Jade v1.0.21: Better Navigation and Readability
• NDK v0.8.0: Data Vending Machines Support & NDK-React v0.1.1 Released
• Lightning Loop v0.26.0-beta: Sweep HTLCs to Addresses Generated from xPub
• Peach Bitcoin v0.2.12: LNURL/BTC Swaps
• Coracle v0.3.0: Faster Feeds, Better Navigation, NIP-89 App Store
• Umbrel Nostr Relay App Now Syncs Your Private Relay with Public Relays
• BDK v0.28.1: Patch Release
• Primal Android v0.13.2, iOS v0.24.3 Released
• Libfloresta: Lightweight Bitcoin Full Node Library
• Ronin UI v2.2.0: New Features & Improvements

Guides and research

• Bitcoin Optech #262: LN Spec Meetings & Blind MuSig2 Signing Safety
• Azteco 101: Unique, Easy & Private Way to Buy Bitcoin

Mining stats

• Currently, the Bitcoin network's hashrate (7 day simple moving average) sits at ~369 EH/s.
• Bitcoin mining difficulty is set to adjust in 545 blocks or approximately 4 days.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning network capacity increased by 30 BTC, up to 4778 BTC today.
• The total number of network nodes gone up by 0.4%, while the total channel count is up by 0.3%, per mempool.space.

Nostr stats

• There are nearly 4000 more new Nostr users compared with a week ago, according to Primal.net.
• The number of daily active users currently stands at ~8000, while the number of weekly active users is trending towards ~20000, per nostr.band stats.