Block 806888: Important News of the Week

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News

• Baltic Honeybadger 2023 Day 2 Livestream
• BTCPay Server Partners with Spiral and LDK to Develop BTCPay App
• Btrust Acquires African Bitcoin Talent Development firm Qala
• Support for Mercury Wallet To Be Discontinued As Developers Focus on Mercury Layer
• Nostr.com Domain is for Sale for $5 Million
• FASB Votes To Introduce New Fair Value Accounting Rules For Bitcoin
• El Salvador to Bring Bitcoin Education in Public Schools as Part of Curriculum in 2024
• New KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin
• BLASTPASS iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit: Users Urged to Update Immediately
• OpenSats Announces Long Term Support for Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost
• BitBlockBoom 2024 to Take Place in Dallas on April 11-14
• Ripple Acquires Fortress Trust Used by Swan Bitcoin

Updates and releases

• GrapheneOS v2023090200 Released
• Libwally Core v0.9.2: Recommended Upgrade
• BTCPay Server v1.11.4 Released
• Machankura Implemented Additive Batching with RBF For Onchain Transactions
• Snort v0.1.13: New Design, Native Key Storage for Android
• Current App v0.1.2: UI Improvements & More
• Primal Launched Content Moderation System For Nostr
• Fountain v0.8.0: Music Podcasts, Player & Performance Updates
• libsecp256k1 v0.4.0: New Ellswift Module
• Nutstash Wallet Browser Extension Released
• RoninDojo v2.0.2: Hotfix
• Breez SDK Core v0.2.3: Dynamic Fee Selection According to LSP & More
• 10101 iOS v1.2.5: Non-Custodial Synthetic USD Using DLCs on Lightning Network
• Mutiny Node v0.4.16: Zap Feed & Nostr Contacts
• Ronin UI v2.3.0: New Pairing Page
• LNp2pBot v0.9.0: Typescript Support
• Mostro v0.8.0 Released
• RGB v0.10: Stable Release
• Liana v2.0: Simplified Installation, Reuse xPub in Descriptor & More
• NDK v1.0 Released: OutBox Model
• JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr
• SimLN: A Tool For Simulating Realistic Lightning Payment Activity
• Coldcard Mk4 Firmware v5.1.4: Batch PSBT Sign, Bugfixes & More

Research

• Bitcoin Optech #267: Bitcoin TX Compression, Privacy Enhanced Co-Signing
• Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Oman

Mining stats

• Bitcoin mining difficulty has adjusted downwards by 2.65% this week and is now at 54.15T.
• Currently, the network's average (7 day MA) hashrate is at approximately ~381 EH/s.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning network's capacity increased by more than 40 BTC since last week. There are also 20 more nodes and nearly 650 more channels, per mempool.space.

Nostr stats

• Primal.net registered more than 5000 new Nostr users this week.
• According to nostr.band stats, the number of daily active users is climbing back towards 10000, while the number of weekly active (trusted) users publishing events were at 21743 last week.