Block 810000: Important News of the Week

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News

• MicroStrategy Acquired 5445 BTC for ~$147M By Issuing More Common Stock
• Bitcoin Minecraft Server Satlantis Ordered to Shut Down Bitcoin Rewards Functionality After Distributing 1 BTC
• AnchorWatch Raises $3M Funding Round Led By Ten31
• HRF's Bitcoin Development Fund Gifts 19 BTC for 15 Bitcoin Projects
• Ripple Won't Go Forward With Acquisition of Fortress Trust
• Pay-to-Snitch Surveillance Firm Arkham Intelligence Says It Identified Nearly 1M BTC in Coinbase Wallets
• MARA Pool's Invalid Block 809478 Had a Transaction Ordering Issue

Updates and releases

• Gossip v0.8.0: Zaps, DMs, New Relay UX & More
• SimpleX Chat v5.3: Desktop App, Local File Encryption and Improved Groups
• Gigsats v0.2.0: Bitcoin Marketplace for Freelance Services
• Trident Vault Launched Open Beta on Testnet
• eNuts v0.0.4-beta: Smoother, More Reliable Experience
• NDK v1.3.0: Massive User Profile Speedup, Zap Splits & More
• EXIT: Port Your X (Twitter) Data into Nostr
• Lightning Network+ Liquidity Pool Launched
• PROXNUT: Cashu Proxy Crafted to Protect and Monetize Web Resources
• 0xChat v1.2.1-beta: Voice and Video Call Capabilities
• $Prism: Lightning Prisms on Nostr Notes
• RaspiBlitz v1.10.0: Stability Fixes & Software Updates
• BTCPay Server v1.11.6: Bug Fixes and Improvements
• Fulcrum v1.9.2: Maintenance Release
• BitBanana v0.6.7: Channel Fee Management
• Oddbean.com: Hacker News Style Nostr Client

Research

• Bitcoin Optech #270: Using Covenants to Improve LN Scalability
• Bitcoin Knowledge and Perceptions 2023 - Block Report

Mining stats

• Bitcoin's hashrate is now reaching 417 EH/s (7 day moving average).
• Next difficulty adjustment is expected to happen in ~3 days.
• Bitcoin mempool has been clearing out this week. 4 sat/vB transactions are being mined this weekend.
• Bitcoin halving is less than 30000 blocks (~7 months) away.

Lightning stats

• Lightning network capacity is down by more than 400 BTC since last week.
• The network also lost 800+ (over 5%) nodes and dropped more than 5000 (-7.5%) channels, per mempool.space.

Nostr stats

• Nostr network welcomed 2000 new users this week, according to Primal.net.
• There are over 9000 daily active users writing events, and over 21,000 weekly active trusted (non-spam) pubkeys posting on Nostr, per Nostr.Band stats.