Block 817500: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Armed Bitcoin Robberies Surge In Sweden Due to Open Data on Citizens
- Nostrasia Hackathon Recap: Winners, Awards & Honorable Mentions
- Bitcoin-Dev Mailing List Is (Still) Looking for New Home
- New Spiral Grantee: Will Clark
- Chat Control: EU Parliament Adopts Position Against Mass Surveillance
- ZeroSync Receives Spiral Grant to Work on Bitcoin Proofs
- Mutiny Wallet Makes Sending Hodl Zaps to Zeus Wallet An Optional Feature
Updates and releases
- GrapheneOS v2023110700: November Security Patch
- Flockstr: Events & Meetups on Nostr
- Cipherchat: Encrypted Messaging Over the Lightning Network
- Breez SDK Core v0.2.9 Released
- Primal Android v0.20.4, iOS v0.90.3 Released
- River Launched Android App and Hourly Recurring Orders
- Fedimint v0.1.4: Bug Fixes, Extending Client Functionality
- Resolvr: Decentralized Escrow & Dispute Resolution for FOSS Bounties
- Human Rights Foundation Launched Its CBDC Tracker
- Zeus v0.8.0-beta3: New Branding & Fixes
- Phoenix Android v2.0.12, iOS v2.0.7 Released
- Minibits v0.1.4-beta: Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Cashu Nutshell v0.14.0: P2PK, DLEQ Proofs, Mint & Wallet Improvements
- LND v0.17.1-beta: Optimizations & Bug Fixes
- Nostree v0.1.5: Themes, UI & UX Improvements
- Fulcrum v1.9.6: Minor Protocol Upgrade
- Current App v0.1.4: PlebAI Integration, Unlimited Access Subscription
- Nayuta Wallet Android v0.4.0, iOS v1.3.0 Released
- Damus v1.6 App Store Release: Long-form Note Support & More
- YakiHonne Mobile Apps for Nostr Long-form Content Now Available for Testing
Guides and research
- BitStream: Decentralized File Hosting Incentivized via Bitcoin Payments
- Bitcoin Optech #277: Ephemeral Anchors Proposal Update, Miniscript Field Report
Mining stats
- Bitcoin hashrate (7 day MA) is currently at ~464 EH/s.
- The next difficulty adjustment is set to occur in less than 1000 blocks or ~7 days.
- Bitcoin transaction fees skyrocketed again this week, making it a highly profitable period for miners.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity is currently at 5365 BTC.
- There are 30 nodes and 400 fewer channels on the network this week, per mempool.space.
Nostr stats
- There are ~ 18000 new users on the Nostr protocol, per Primal.net.
