Block 813220: Important News of the Week
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News
- Key Points from Snowden's Speech at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023
- OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support to Vasil Dimov
- SEC Did Not Appeal Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF Court Decision
- California's 'BitLicense' Bill Signed Into Law
- AI Tool Lets Bitcoiners Flood IRS with Comments Against New Draconian Surveillance Regime
- Disclosure: Replacement Cycling Attacks on the Lightning Network
- Silk Road Hacker Showed Feds $70M Worth of Bitcoin on His Laptop Before Getting Arrested
- Elon Musk's X Starts Charging New Users $1 per Year to Unlock Posting
- OpenSats Announces Third Wave of Nostr Grants
- OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support for Gleb Naumenko
- FinCEN Seeks to Impose Strict Surveillance Requirements onto Broadly Defined Class of 'Bitcoin Mixers'
- New Class of Replacement Cycling Attacks Might Put Lightning Network in Perilous Position
Updates and releases
- SATSLINK: Multipurpose Communications Device by Coinkite
- Wasabi Wallet Announced Coinjoin API for Enterprises
- Peach Bitcoin v0.3.2: Connect to Your Own Node
- BitVM Online: Play with Tapleaf Circuits
- WordPress Plugins for Nostr: Nostress & Nostrtium
- Citadel v0.2.9 & v0.3.0 LTS Released
- Block Completes The First Prototype of MDK Hashboard
- Sentinel v5.0.0: Collections, Ability to Compose Unsigned Transactions & More
- Mash Partners with TFTC, Launches v2.0 Publisher Monetization Products
- LNbits v0.11.1: Bugfix Release
- Nodeyez v23.10: Geyser Spotlights Panel & Bugfixes
- BlueWallet v6.4.9: Airdrop MultiSig Cosigner
- Wavlake Added Artist Splits
- BTCPay Server v1.11.7: Bug Fixes & Improvements
- PlebBook.com: Community Resource for Aspiring Bitcoin-Lightning Ecosystem Builders
- SimLN v0.1.0: Payment Activity Generator for the Lightning Network
- noStrudel Update: Zap Splits & UI Improvements
- TaskTiger.io: DVM Client for Working with Images
- RoboSats v0.5.3-alpha: Face-to-Face Cash Trades
- BitBox Partners with Breez to Bring Lightning to the BitBoxApp
- Unchained Launches Its Financial Advice Service Sound Advisory
- Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.86: Receive Instant Payments Without Setup & More
- Taproot Assets v0.3.0-alpha: First Mainnet Release
- Onramp Launches New Multisig Custody Platform
- Bitcoin Core v25.1: Bug Fixes, Improvements, Updated Translations
- Strike Partners with Bitrefill, Enables Zero-value Lightning Invoices
Research and guides
- How to Develop a Non-Custodial Bitcoin Lightning Wallet Using Flutter and LDK
- Bitcoin Optech #273: Payments Contingent on Arbitrary Computation
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty had a significant upwards adjustment (+6.47%) and reached 61.03T - a new all-time high.
- The network's hashrate (7 day MA) currently sits at ~444 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning Network capacity is at ~5400 BTC shared across 14000+ nodes and 63k channels.
Nostr stats
- This week, the Nostr protocol added over 3000 new users, per primal.net.
- The number of daily active trusted pubkeys remains slightly below 10000, while the number of weekly trusted pubkeys remains above 21000, per nostr.band.
