Block 831000: Important News of the Week
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News
- Bitwise's Bitcoin Spot ETF Addresses Updated to Native SegWit P2WPKH
- Spiral Awards Grant to Plebhash, Renews Support for The Charlatan
- European Court of Human Rights Rules Backdoored Encryption Illegal
- Justin Sun Sets Eyes on Shitcoins on Bitcoin, Announces 'Layer 2 Bitcoin Solution'
- Elizabeth Warren Trolled Into Honoring Satoshi Nakamoto on 15th Bitcoin's Launch Anniversary
- U.S. Treasury Admits Wall Street Journal Reported Misleading Numbers on Bitcoin Use By Militant Groups
- Apple Confirms iOS 17.4 Disables Progressive Web Apps in the European Union
- Summer of Bitcoin 2024 Applications are Open Until 20th of February
Updates and releases
- Clams Remote v2.1.0: Spanish Language & Fixes
- Blitz Wallet Beta Is Now Available for Testing
- New on Geyser: Ekasi Center, Sato₿oat, Bitcoin Safari
- Nsec.app: Web-based Nostr Signer
- Stacker.news Implements NWC & LNbits for Sending, LND for Autowithdraw
- v2 Opens aka Dual Funding Officially Merged into Lightning Network Specifications
- Minibits v0.1.6-beta: Fixes & Improvements
- Breez SDK Core v0.3.0 Released
- Holepunch Unveils Open-Source P2P App Development Platform Pear Runtime
- Umbrel Introduces New Umbrel Home, Teases UmbrelOS v1.0
- Whynostr: Proof-of-concept for Collaborative Document Editing on Nostr
- Cashu Nutshell v0.15.0: Support for Cashu v1 Protocol
- Citadel v0.3.3: Connect Wallet Improvements & Optimizations
- BDK v1.0.0-alpha.6: TxBuilder Fix
Research
- Bitcoin Optech #289: Post Cluster Mempool Relay Enhancements & More
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty experienced another significant adjustment up to 81.73T.
- The network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently at ~568 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity contracted by more than 100 BTC, and there are 100 nodes and 1000 channels fewer compared with previous week.
Nostr stats
- There are more than 5000 new users on Nostr this week, per Primal.net.
