Block 802854: Important News of the Week

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News

• European Bitcoiners Can Still Challenge FATF's Travel Rule on Constitutional Grounds
• Kenyan Police Raided Worldcoin's Warehouse and Seized 'Machines That Store Data'
• PayPal Stablecoin News is a Paxos White Label Branding Play
• Ai4ALL Hackathon Wrap Up: 44 Bitcoin Projects From 173 Participants
• Iris Received Half of HRF's Secret Nostr Group Chats Bounty
• Iraq Blocks Telegram Access In The Country Citing 'Privacy Concerns'
• Milk Sad: Wallet Theft Enabled By Weak Entropy
• Binance Becomes 'The First Fully Licensed Exchange' in El Salvador
• Core Scientific Restructuring Plan Includes Equity Stake For Bitmain and Anchorage
• Banks Hit with $549 Million in Fines For Use of Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage
• BitForge: Fireblocks Uncovered Vulnerabilities in Over 15 Major MPC Wallets
• $37M CoinsPaid Hack Was Triggered By A Fake Job Interview
• Current App's Team Says Apple Allowed Them To Keep Zaps on Posts

Updates and releases

• Stratum v2 Reference Implementation (SRI) Roadmap Announced
• Samourai Wallet v0.99.98h: New Tools, JoinBot Promotion, Stability & Bugfixes
• Amethyst v0.72.1: New Memory Management, Caching Improvements
• StaticWire: Rent Internet Protocol Subnets Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
• Liana v1.1: Patch Release
• GrapheneOS v2023080700: August Security Patch
• StartOS v0.3.4.4: UI Improvements & Bug Fixes
• RoninDojo v2.0.1 Released
• Snort v0.1.12: nsecBunker Support
• Stacker.News Adds Nostr Login, Zap Metadata & More
• Core Lightning v23.08rc1 Comes with Experimental Anchors, Splicing and Renepay
• Bitrefill Partners with eSIM Go to Offer eSIMs in Over 160 Countries
• Magic Webstore Added Store Metadata, Nostr Auth, Notifications & More
• Vault: Free and Open Source Nostr Password Manager
• Primal Android v0.14.3 Released, Web Client Added Relay Management
• Smart Vaults (ex-Coinstr) Launches Testnet Beta, Offers 100k Sats for Testers
• Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.2: Now Open Source, Collaborative Wallets, Assisted Inheritance Key & More
• BDK v0.28.2 Released
• BTCPay Server v1.11.2: Bug Fix Release

Guides and research

• BitMEX Research on Drivechains
• Bitcoin Optech #263: DoS Protection Design Philosophy

Mining stats

• Bitcoin mining difficulty increased by 0.12%, up to 52.39T.
• The 7-day simple MA hashrate is currently at ~ 377 EH/s.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning Network capacity is down from 4778 to 4769 BTC in the last 7 days, per mempool.space stats.
• The number of Lightning nodes and channels are up by 0.1%, meaning 50 more nodes and more than a 100 new channels on the network.

Nostr stats

• Nearly 3000 new users joined nostr this week, per Primal.net.
• The number of active daily users is back above 9000, while the number of weekly active users is still just above 20000, per nostr.band.