Block 809000: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Fold Is Working to Onboard New Trading and Custody Partners
- EU Parliament Passed DAC8: Crypto Service Providers Will Have to Report All Transaction Information on EU Clients
- Bitcoin.org Operator Cøbra Must Reveal Identity to Defend Themselves, U.K. High Court Rules
- UK Parliament Undermines Privacy, Security and Freedom of All Internet Users by Passing the 'Online Safety Bill'
- River Is Working on Non-Custodial No KYC Lightning Payments Solution for Developers
- Mullvad Partnered with Tailscale, Completed Migration to RAM-only VPN Infrastructure
- PlebLab's Summer 2023 Startup Day Videos Are Now Available
- GitLab Urges Users to Install Security Updates for Critical Pipeline Flaw
- Bitmain Unveils Antminer S21 Series
- Legends of Lightning Vol. 2 To Take Place on October 5 - December 17
Updates and releases
- Phoenix Android v2.0.6, iOS v2.0 Beta is Now on Testflight
- Breez Mobile v0.16 (iOS v1.0.22): UI Improvements & Bug Fixes
- Zeus v0.8.0-alpha Now Available to Olympus Subscribers, Open Beta Is Coming Soon
- Mutiny Node v0.4.17: NWC Budgeting
- Blockstream Green Lightning Integration Coming by the End of September - Q2 Report
- Formstr: Free and Open Source Alternative to Google Forms
- Alby Developer Portal Launched
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.98 Released
- Amethyst v0.77.0-alpha: Amber Support
- The Bitcoin Company's Web App Added Auth47 Paynym Accounts
- Snort v0.1.14: Zap Splits
- Diamond Hands Partners with Boltz, Releases Improved DH Swap Service
- Virtual Bolt Card: Contactless Lightning Payments for Android
- IVPN Light: Short-Term VPN Access Priced in Sats
- Mutiny Wallet v0.4.19: NWC Budgeting
- GrapheneOS v2023091800 Released
- Samourai Dojo v1.21.0: $1 Fee Estimator
- New.Nostryfied.Online: Accelerated Instant Nostr Backups
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.5.2: Ability to Attach External Wallets
- StartOS, UmbrelOS Now Let You Self-Host Private AI Models
- Minibits Wallet Is Now In Open Beta Testing on Google Play
- UTXOracle.py: Get Bitcoin Price Without Any Exchange or 3rd Party
- Specter Desktop v2.0.2: Multi-Descriptor Multisig Wallet Import
- Balance of Satoshis v16.0.1: Change Default Address Type to P2TR
- Damus v1.6.18 (TestFlight): NostrDB Profiles
- Trezor Suite v23.9.3: Simplified Bitcoin-only Firmware UI
- Fedimint v0.1.0: First Official Fedimint Release
- Alby Extension v3.2.1: Onchain Swaps, Bug Fixes, UI Improvements
- BTCPay Server v1.11.5: Minor Features and Bug Fixes
- Yana v0.10.10: NWC Integration
- ZapThreads: Threaded Comments Component Built on Nostr
- Jam v0.1.6: Wallet Imports
Guides and research
- Bitcoin Optech #269: Bitcoin Research Day
- How Hodl Hodl Used BTCPay to Onboard 20 Merchants & Facilitate 1.1 BTC at Bitcoin Conference - Case Study
- SeedSigner Independent Custody Guide
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted upwards by 5.48% and reached a new all-time high at 57.12T.
- The current network's hashrate (7 day MA) surpassed 400 EH/s and is currently at ~406 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning network capacity continues its upwards climb and is currently at 4899 BTC.
- The network's total node count has risen by 1.7% as well, reaching 15627 nodes, while the total channel count increased by 1.5%, up to 68829 channels on the network.
Nostr stats
- Primal.net finds that approximately 2500 new nostr users joined the network this week.
- The number of daily active (trusted) nostr users remains above 9000, while weekly active (trusted) users were at 20929 last week, according to stats.nostr.band.
