Block 820600: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- BitcoinTalk.org to Ban Link Sharing and Promotion of Custodial No-KYC Mixers
- U.S. Treasury Seeks Massive Expansion of Warrantless Surveillance & Powers to Sanction Open-Source Software
- TABConf 2024 to Take Place on October 23-26 in Atlanta
- Spiral Renews Grant to Johannes Hoffman
- Apple Confirms Governments Use Push Notifications to Surveil Users
- Unchained to Pause Bitcoin Backed Loans to Individuals
- Unconfiscatable 2023 Livestream - Day 1
- Nayib Bukele Stepped Away From Presidency to Pursue Second Term
- Unconfiscatable Conference 2023 - Day 2 Livestream
- Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service
Updates and releases
- Primal Debuts on Mobile App Stores: iOS v1.0.4, Android Beta v0.21.4 Released
- TBD Unveils Tech Preview of tbDEX Open Source Liquidity Protocol
- Wasabi Wallet v2.0.4.1 Released
- RoninDojo v2.1.1: Kernel Update, Security Patches & Fixes
- Envoy v1.4.0: Intuitive Coin Control, New Activity Center & More
- Zeus v0.8.0 Is Here: Embedded LND Node, OLYMPUS, Zeus Pay & More
- Mutiny Node v0.4.39: Payjoin Support, Dynamic Fees, Nostr Wallet Auth
- PlebDevs Released a Backend Course for Lightning App Development
- Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.8: Custom Multisig, Coin Selection & More
- RoninUI v2.4.0: Added Whirlpool UI
- Stacker.News Introduced Territories: User Generated Subs
- Bitcoin Core v26.0: P2P/Network Improvements, Pruning Updates, New RPCs & More
- GrapheneOS v2023120700: December Security Update
- Block Opens Bitkey Preorders in 95+ Countries, Shipping Expected in Q1 2024
- LND v0.17.3-beta: Hot Fix Release
- Payjoin CLI v0.0.1-alpha: A Command-line Payjoin Client for Bitcoin Core
- Ride The Lightning v0.15.0-beta: CLNRest for Core Lightning
- Users of BTCPay Server's LNbank Plugin Urged to Upgrade to v1.8.9 ASAP
Research and guides
- Nostr Tech Weekly Report - 12.03.2023
- Guide: How to Become a Lightning Service Provider (LSP)
- Bitcoin Optech #280: Cluster Mempool, Testing with Warnet
- Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Africa
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty had a small (-0.96%) downwards adjustment today. It went down to 67.31T.
- The average Bitcoin network's hashrate (7 day SMA) is currently at ~482 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity decreased further to 5106 BTC this week. The number of Lightning nodes increased by 50, while the number of open channels declined below 60k.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol added more than 7000 new users this week, per Primal.net.
