Block 819555: Important News of the Week

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News

• Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada
• Livestream: The Future of Bitcoin Mining Conference
• Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding
• 83 BTC Fee Transaction Was a Cold Wallet Hack
• Spiral Renews Grant to the Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) Project
• MicroStrategy Added 16130 BTC to Its Stash in November
• AntPool to Return 83 BTC Fee to Person Who Signs Message From the Compromised Wallet
• Africa Bitcoin Conference 2023 Livestream - Day 1
• Africa Bitcoin Conference 2023 - Day 3 Livestream

Releases and updates

• SimpleX Chat v5.4: Link Mobile & Desktop Apps via Quantum-resistant Protocol
• DEMAND Launches The First Stratum V2 Bitcoin Mining Pool
• GrapheneOS v2023112600 Released
• LNbits v0.11.2: New Service Fee Settings
• Dtan.xyz: Distributed Torrent Archive on Nostr
• Core Lightning v23.11: Dual Funding Cross-Compatibility with Eclair, More Powerful RPCs & More
• Bitcoin Optech #279: Update to The Liquidity Ads Specification
• Hodl Hodl Design Improvements: New Contract Flow & More
• Breez Partners with lipa, SDK Core v0.2.10 Released
• Blockstream Green Android v4.0.20, iOS v4.0.19 Released
• Alby Extension v3.4.1: UI Improvements

Mining stats

• The average Bitcoin network's hashrate (7 day SMA) is currently at ~491 EH/s.
• The next difficulty adjustment is expected to happen next weekend.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning Network capacity is down from 5425 BTC to 5140 BTC this week. The number of active nodes and channels is down by ~1%, too.

Nostr stats

• The Nostr protocol has added nearly ~5000 new users this week.