Block 839000: Important News of the Week
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News
- bitcoin++ Austin to Take Place on May 1-4
- Bitcoin Policy Summit 2024 Livestream
- Database Containing Personal Information of 5.1 Million Salvadoran Citizens Leaked
- OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support for PabloF7z
- Atlanta 2022 CoreDev Event Probed by the FBI
- Paraguay Reconsiders Mining Ban In Favor of Selling Excess Energy to Bitcoin Miners
Updates and releases
- Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI) v3.0.0 Released
- Core Lightning v24.02.2 Released
- Zeus v0.8.3: On-chain tx Coin Control for LND, Improved Controls for Neutrino Peers & More
- Mutiny Wallet v0.6.2: Federated Lightning Addresses for Mutiny+ Users
- New on Geyser: African Bitcoin Community Builders, Node Nation & More
- BlueWallet v6.6.0 Released
- LDK v0.0.122: Bug Fixes
- Sparrow Wallet v1.8.5: Whirlpool Over Decentralized Soroban
- Beignet: Instant Bitcoin Wallet Implementation for JS Devs
- Bisq v1.9.15: Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Blockstream Green Android v4.0.27, iOS v4.0.26, Desktop v2.0.3 Released
- Phoenix Wallet v2.2.2: Updated Fee Estimation for On-The-Fly Channel
- Patriot Act v2.0: US House Passes FISA 702 Surveillance Expansion 'Reform'
Guides and research
- Bitcoin Optech #297: DSL for Experimenting with Contracts
- Mi Primer Bitcoin Introduces 2024 Edition of Its Student Workbook
- Bitcoin-Native Startup and Venture Capital Landscape in 2023 - Report
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has adjusted to a record 86.39T.
- The network's hashrate (7 day SMA) is currently at ~612 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- The number of Lightning nodes and channels declined by ~1% this week.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol has onboarded 10000 new users this week.
