Block 832000: Important News of the Week

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News

• Coinbase Donates $3.6M to Fund Open Source Bitcoin Developers
• Coinbase Commerce Merchant Payment Processing Platform No Longer Supports Bitcoin
• El Salvador Ex-Security Adviser Who Accused Ruling Party of Corruption Dies in Custody
• Julian Assange Appeals in Most Important Press Freedom Case in the World
• Judge Set to Rule on Assange Extradition Previously Acted for MI6 Whose Activities Were Exposed by WikiLeaks
• ECB Reports Record Loss for 2023, Publishes Another Hit Piece on Bitcoin
• Citrea Raised $2.7M Seed Round to Launch Bitcoin’s First ZK Rollup
• Nigeria Blocks Access to Bitcoin Exchanges in Desperate Bid to Control The Price of Plummeting National Currency
• EIA to Temporarily Suspend Bitcoin Miner Survey After Lawsuit
• Ethiopian Sovereign Wealth Fund to Start Mining Bitcoin Under a ~$250M Preliminary Agreement

Updates and releases

• Bitcoin Tribe v2.4.0: Testnet Support for RGB Assets
• Samourai Dojo v1.23.0: Updated Estimator API, Mempool Persistence & More
• BlueWallet v6.5.4: Fixes & Optimizations
• Lightning Loop v0.27.1-beta: Automatic Sweeping of Incorrectly Deposited Amounts
• Fedimint v0.2.2: Recommended Bug Fix Release
• Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.11: UX Overhaul, Add Multiple Wallets & More
• Amethyst v0.84.3: NIP-49 & NIP-92 Support, Community & Public Chat List Events
• Primal Android v0.93.2: Support for On-chain Transactions, Unified QR & More
• Hack0: Open Source Plug-and- Play Bitcoin Node for Vendors
• Signal Introduces Usernames and Phone Number Privacy
• Braiins Pool Introduces Lightning Payouts
• Cashu-Address.com Moves to Npub.cash, Integrates NIP-46
• JoinMarket v0.9.11: Wallet Performance & RPC API Improvements
• Foundation Passport v2.3.0: Full Taproot Support, SeedQR Export & More
• Bitkey Shares Code for Firmware, Mobile App, Server & Hardware Schematics
• COLDCARD Q v0.0.6-beta: Source Code Is Now Public
• Electrum v4.5.3: Fixes and Improvements
• Lightning Terminal v0.12.3-alpha Released
• Aqua Wallet v0.1.30: Botev Mode
• Mutiny Wallet v0.5.9: Startup Speed Optimizations
• Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0: Swaproot & Quiescence
• Primal iOS v1.2.44: On-chain Wallet, Video Uploads & More
• WikiFreedia: Wikipedia Proof-of-Concept on Nostr
• Satcom v0.1.0: Nostr Login Support
• BitBanana v0.7.5: VPN Automation
• Semaphore.Finance Added Lightning Support
• Superposition and Note Duel: DLC Experiments on Nostr
• LNbits v0.12.2: Fixes & Improvements
• Marathon Launched Slipstream Service for Non-Standard Bitcoin Transactions
• Amboss Reflex: Compliance Tool for Lightning Businesses

Research

• Analysis: El Salvador's Decision and the Salvadorian Mainstream Media's Reaction
• Bitcoin Optech #290: DNS-Based Human-readable Bitcoin Payment Instructions
• 2023 Q4 Year-End Review of Global Base Money

Mining stats

• Bitcoin hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently back at ~565 EH/s.
• Mining difficulty is expected to adjust downwards in ~4 days or 607 blocks.

Lightning stats

• Lightning network's capacity is down by another ~80 BTC this week, and there are ~60 nodes and 400 channels fewer.

Nostr stats

• Nostr added over 5000 new users this week, per primal.net.
• According to nostr.band stats, there are over 11000 trusted pubkeys writing events on the network daily, and here are over 26000 trusted pubkeys who are active on a weekly basis.