Block 821503: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Tether Freezes All OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets in 'Proactive' Security Measure
- How LNbank User Lost 4 BTC
- Elizabeth Warren Wants to Extend Bank Secrecy Act Regulations to Free & Open Source Software
- US House Intelligence Committee’s Section 702 Reform' Bill Marks The Biggest Expansion of Surveillance in United States Since the Patriot Act
- FASB Officially Adopts Fair Value Accounting Rules for Bitcoin Starting December 2024
- Bitcoin Freedom Festival 2024 To Take Place in Costa Rica on January 18-20
- Ledger Connect Kit Exploited
- Shakepay Leaked Some of Its Customer Information
Updates and releases
- ShockWallet and Lightning.Pub Released for Public Testing
- eNuts v0.2.0-beta: Auto Mint Swapping
- Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.92: Instant Payments, LNURL-withdraw & LNURL-pay Support & More
- LNbits v0.11.3 Released
- FutureBit Announced Apollo II Line of Personal Bitcoin Miners
- LDK Node v0.2.0: Pre-flight Probes, API Improvements
- Coinselect v1.1.0: TypeScript Library for Bitcoin Transaction Management
- NerdMiner v1.6.3: 78 KH/s, BTC Price Screen & More
- Mutiny Wallet Added Nostr Wallet Auth, Can Now Be Self-Hosted with StartOS
- CrowdHealth Integrates Lightning with Breez SDK, SDK Core v0.2.12 Released
- NDK v2.3.0: NIP-42 Support, More Aggressive Caching & More
- Minibits v0.1.5-beta: Seed-based Ecash Backups
- CivKit Node v0.0.2: Mainstay Integration, Database Support & More
- Green Wallet Mobile v4.0.21: UX Improvements
- Phoenix Wallet Android v2.0.15 Released
- River Link Launched: Shareable Bitcoin Links
- New Geyser Launches: Our New Weekly Series
- Samourai Dojo v1.22.0: New API Endpoint, Exclusion of Incompatible Clients
- Arkdev.info: Ark's Developer Hub Launched
- Liana v4.0: Automated Coin Selection, RBF, Cancel & Deposit Address Verification
- Amethyst v0.82.3: Selling & Listing, Image Servers & More
- Snort v0.1.24: 3 Column Layout & Other Improvements
Guides and research
- Nostr Tech Weekly Report - 12.10.2023
- Bitcoin Optech #281: Griefing Liquidity Ads
- How Bitcoin Jungle Enables 200+ Stores in Costa Rica to Embrace Bitcoin
Mining stats
- Bitcoin miners are having another field day thanks to another surge in fees driven by inscriptions.
- The average Bitcoin network's hashrate (7 day SMA) is currently at ~493 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network's capacity has dropped by another 35 BTC this week and currently is at 5071 BTC. Besides, there are 200 fewer active channels while the number of active nodes remains unchanged, per mempool.space.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol added more than 20000 new users this week, per Primal.net.
