Block 836084: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- The Human Rights Foundation Donates $500K to 14 Bitcoin Projects
- OpenSats Issues Long-Term Support Grant to Bruno Garcia
- MicroStrategy Surpasses 1% of Total BTC Supply Milestone Using Proceeds of Yet Another $600M Convertible Note Offering
- Elon Musk Building Worlds Most Advanced Spy Satellite Swarm Network for US Gov
- GoFetch: Vulnerability in M-series Mac Chips Lets Attackers Steal Encryption Keys
- EU to Vote on New Draconian AML Package for Service Providers on April 22nd
Updates and releases
- RoboSats v0.6.0-alpha: The Federation Layer
- Cashu Nutshell v0.15.1: Blink as Lightning Funding Source
- UmbrelOS v1.0: New UI, Architectural Overhaul, Search & More
- Electrs v0.10.4 Released
- Teleport Transactions: Binaries & Libraries for Trustless P2P Maxwell-Belcher CoinSwap Protocol
- Whack-A-Mole: Samourai Launches Stage 1 of Whirlpool Decentralization
- Stratum V2 Reference Implementation (SRI) v1.0.0 Released
- Phoenixd: Phoenix for Server
Guides and research
- BitCan: DIY Bitcoin Seed Storage
- MicroBolt Guide: Setting Up Bitcoin & Lightning Node from Scratch
- Bitcoin Optech #294: BIP324 Proxy for Light Clients, BTC Lisp
- Case Study: Bitcoin as Medium of Exchange at Bitcoin Atlantis 2024
Mining stats
- Bitcoin hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently back at ~599 EH/s. It reached a new all-time high of ~612 EH/s on March 20, 2024.
- The next difficulty adjustment is expected in ~3 days on March 28.
Lightning stats
- The capacity of the Lightning network dropped to ~4563 BTC, while the number of nodes is currently at 13105, per mempool.space.
Nostr stats
- The nostr protocol added over 7000 new users last week, per primal.net.
