Block 826675: Important News of the Week
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News
- GitLab Warns of Critical Zero-click Account Hijacking Vulnerability
- Google, Apple Pull Binance, Kraken and Other Exchanges from India App Stores
- Stripe Is Deplatforming Users For Selling Bitcoin Hardware
- Taxpayers Do Not Have to Report $10K+ Bitcoin Transactions As Cash Until Further Regulations - IRS
- Core Scientific Is Ready to Emerge from Bankruptcy and Re-list on Nasdaq by the End of January
- UN Report Attacks Tether for Facilitating Global Crime
- Spiral Grants Support to Dan Gould and Esraa for Work on Payjoin
- New EU KYC/AML Rules to Impose Stricter Surveillance Measures on Users and Service Providers
- Bondo: The African Village Mining Bitcoin
- Tether Acquired 8888 BTC Late in Q4, Now Holds 66465 BTC
- Trezor Warns of Phishing Campaign Following Potential Support Contact Leak
Releases and updates
- RoboSats v0.6.0 Pre-release: Introducing RoboSats Federation
- Semaphore: P2P Crowdfunding with Bitcoin
- Fountain v1.0.2: Android Improvements, Library Customization & Swipe Gestures
- LDK v0.0.119: API Updates, Performance Improvements, & Fixes
- LDK v0.0.120: Important Bug Fixes, Full Blinded Paths Support & More
- AgoraDesk App v1.1.16 Released
- Fulcrum v1.9.8: Correctness Improvement
- Nostream v2.0.0: Removed NIP-26 Support
- Unleashed.Chat v0.1.7: API Release & Nostr Mode Improvements
- Plasma v1.0.5 Is Now Available on the App Store
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.102 Released
- BlueWallet v6.4.16: Improvements & Fixes (Updated)
- Sparrow Wallet v1.8.2: Improved Transaction Tree Labels & More
- Hermes: Fedimint-based Lightning Address Server
- BDK v1.0.0-alpha.4: Improved KeychainTxOutIndex API & Fixes
- Nutband: Experiment with Cashu Over Reticulum Mesh Network Protocol
- COLDCARD Mk4 v6.2.2X Edge Firmware Released
- Electrum v4.5.2: Bug Fixes
Research
- Bitcoin Optech #285: Past CLN Vulnerability, New Soft Fork Proposals & More
- Hashrate Index 2023 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review - Report
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty went down to 70.34T this week.
- The network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is also down and is currently reaching ~502 EH/s. The decline is attributed to a severe cold outbreak in Texas.
Lightning stats
- Lightning Network's capacity is at 4920 BTC this week, with 160 fewer nodes and 600 fewer channels compared to the previous week.
Nostr stats
- More than 6000 new users joined Nostr last week, per primal.net.
- According to nostr.band stats, there are over 10000 trusted pubkeys writing nostr events daily. Weekly active real nostr users are at ~25000.
