Block 812150: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Bitcoin Should Be Considered First and Separate From All Other Digital Assets - Fidelity Report
- Bitmain Paused Employee Salary Payments For September - Local Reports
- Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 - Day 1 Livestream
- Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 - Day 2 Livestream
- Madeira Announces The Launch of Bitcoin Business Hub
Updates and releases
- GrapheneOS v2023100800: Android 14 Release
- Hostr: Decentralized Web Hosting Solution on Nostr
- Bisq v1.9.14: Added MercadoPago, Updated Java Runtime & More
- Plasma: Core Lightning Powered iOS Wallet
- Tapleaf Circuits: Proof-of-Concept Implementation of BitVM
- Scaling Lightning v0.3.1 Released
- Ride The Lightning v0.14.1-beta: Taproot Channels
- Coldcard Mk4 v5.2.0: Seed Vault, PSBTv2 & More
- Alby Extension v3.3.0: On-Chain Send & Receive
- Blockstream Greenlight Is Now Open For Business
- Trezor Introduces Safe 3 Signing Device & Trezor Keep Metal Backup
- Spring Browser v0.3.0: nsecBunker Support
- Shipyard: Focused Writing and Scheduling for Nostr Notes
- Tor Browser v13.0: First Stable Release on Firefox ESR 115
Research and guides
- BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
- The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years - River Research
- Bitcoin Optech #272: Specification for OP_TXHASH
- Survival of the Biggest: Large Banks & Financial Crises
Mining stats
- Bitcoin hashrate (7-day MA) is currently hovering around its new highs at ~432 EH/s.
- Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is expected to happen within 300 blocks or in ~47 hours.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning network capacity is currently well above 5315 BTC.
- The total number of Lightning nodes is down to 14255, while the number of active channels went down to 63439.
Nostr stats
- Nearly 5000 new users joined Nostr last week, per Primal.net.
- The number of daily active users remains at 9000+, while weekly active pubkeys (excluding spam) writing events declined to 20535 last week.
