Block 835000: Important News of the Week
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News
- MicroStrategy Buys 12000 BTC for $821 Million, Owns 205K BTC
- OpenSats Opens Long-term Support Program for Nostr Developers
- Biden Administration Resurrects 30% Bitcoin Mining Tax in Budget Proposal for 2025
- Roman Sterlingov Found Guilty on Four Counts, Court Finds Chainalysis 'Reliable'
- VanEck Cuts Bitcoin ETF Fee to Zero in a Bid to Attract Inflows
- Judge: Evidence Is Overwhelming, Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
- PlebLab Startup Day 2024 Livestream
- US House Passed 'TikTok Ban Bill' for Dealing with 'Foreign-owned Apps Deemed National Security Risk'
- Nayib Bukele Reveals El Salvador's Bitcoin Address
Updates and releases
- Sparrow Wallet v1.8.4: Terminal Fix
- Bitdeer Announced New 4nm Bitcoin Mining Chip SEAL01
- Boltz Web App v1.3.1 Released
- Validating Lightning Signer v0.11.0: Tag-team Signing Support & Dockerized VLS
- Lightning Terminal v0.12.4-alpha Released
- Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.12: UX/UI Improvements, Mobile Key Available by Default
- Primal iOS v1.3.6: Multi-account Support
- Krux v24.03.0: Performance Optimizations, Reproducible Builds & More
- Envoy v1.6.0 with Full RBF Control & Custom Device Names Is Out of Beta
- 10101 v2.0.4: Updated Flutter and BDK, Fee Info for DLC Channels
- BitBox02 v9.17.0 Firmware Added Mnemonics for Lightning Wallets
- COLDCARD Q Firmware v1.0.0 Released
- Relai Launches Lightning for Over 100K of Its European Users
- Mostro v0.10.0: Allow Buyer to Add New Invoice
- New on Geyser: Texas Fire Relief Fund, Bitcoin Indonesia, Brainbow Wallet
- LNbits Demo Server to Disable the Cashu Extension (UPDATED)
- Block Starts Shipping Its Bitkey Wallet
- Zeus v0.8.2: 0-conf LSP Support for LND REST, PoS Print Receipts, Enhanced Recovery Interface
- BitGo Introduced Replace-By-Fee Support for Hot, Custodial & Self-Managed Wallets
- Electrum v4.5.4: Fixes & Improvements
- Boltz Client v2.0.0: Swap Client for Automated, Cheap CLN & LND Channel Rebalancing
- Nostr.org: Nostr Protocol Splash Page
- Bisq v2.0.0 Is Now Live
- eNuts v0.3.1-beta: App Store Release
- BlueWallet v6.5.9: Fixes & Improvements
- Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.2: L-BTC Coin Control
Research
- 40% of Bitcoin Open-Source Developers Focused on L2s and Scaling in 2023 - Report
- Bitcoin Optech #293: Trustless Onchain Betting on Potential Soft Forks
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has increased by more than 5% and reached a new high of 83.95T.
- The network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently at ~595 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- There's almost 100 BTC more on the Lightning Network compared with previous week.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol added more than 7000 new users last week, per primal.net stats.
