Research
Was Satoshi a Greedy Miner?
Technical analysis of mining behavior exhibited by an entity that is plausibly Satoshi Nakamoto.
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News
White House Releases Framework for "Responsible Development of Digital Assets"
Over the past six months, agencies across the government have worked together to develop frameworks and policy recommendations.
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Weekly Digest
Block 754353: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
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Releases
Phoenix Wallet Android v1.4.23 Released: Fixes Issue Where Payments Could Not Be Received From LND v0.15.1-beta
Fix compatibility issue with LND 0.15.1-beta The legacy Phoenix app on android used bit 50 for the trampoline feature bit, which has since been reused for zeroconf with a dependency on scid_alias. The legacy app now uses bit 148 instead. This fixes an issue that prevented the
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News
US Treasury OFAC Sanctions 22 Russians, 2 Entities, Including Associated Bitcoin and Ethereum Addresses
“The United States will continue to take strong actions to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes, atrocities and aggression,” said Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen.
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Research
Mining Concentration In America Poses A Major Threat To Bitcoin
Blind patriotism encouraging further centralization of mining in America is a regulatory capture trap.
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Releases
Red Dirt Mining Launches Open Source Bitcoin Denominated Mining Profitability Calculator
* Red Dirt Mining is proud to launch The Open Source Mining Calculator - the first bitcoin-denominated, open source mining profitability calculator. Miners can easily view and calculate profitability & cashflow in bitcoin terms. https://reddirtmining.io/calculator No Bullshit Bitcoin is funded by donations from our audience. Click here to
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News
US Treasury OFAC Sanctions Iranian Ransomware Gang Members and Seven Associated Bitcoin Addresses
* The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against ten individuals and two entities affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20220914 archive: https://archive.ph/8vWnP No
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News
LNMarkets Increases Trade Limit to 10M Sats and Moves Infrastructure From AWS to Nodl Cloud
* LNMarkets is a no-kyc bitcoin exchange * Trading limit 5 times bigger: from 2 to 10 million satoshis (0.1 BTC) * Infrastructure is now hosted with Nodl Cloud rather than Amazon * Additional login option with Lightning Node Connect * New languages: Spanish & French * Simple transfers within different LNM accounts with Lightning
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Releases
Bitcoin Optech #217
* Recaps the "Reduce bandwidth during initial headers sync when a block is found" Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Meeting * Covers code changes including: Bitcoin Core #25614, Bitcoin Core #25768, Bitcoin Core #19602, Eclair #2406, Eclair #2190, and Rust Bitcoin #1196 https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/14/
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Research
Taro Explainer: A Proposed Protocol That Will Allow the Issuance of Digital Assets on the Bitcoin Blockchain That Can Be Transferred Using the Lightning Network
* Taro is a proposed protocol that will allow the issuance of digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. * Taro assets can be fungible currencies such as stablecoins, or non-fungible, unique tokens such as NFTs or collectibles. * Taro assets can be transferred over the Bitcoin network, or instantly, at low cost and
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Releases
LDK Rust-Lightning v0.0.111 Released
"Saturated with Messages" API Updates * Support for relaying onion messages has been added via a new OnionMessenger struct when passed as the OnionMessageHandler to a PeerManager. Pre-encoded onion messages can also be sent and received (#1503, #1650, #1652, #1688). * Rate-limiting of outbound gossip syncs has been rewritten to
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