Block 755459: Weekly Digest

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Block 755459: Weekly Digest

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  • The Guatemalan Lake Town Mining Bitcoin With Used Cooking Oil
  • Bitcoin Mining Hosting Provider Compute North Has Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in a Federal Court
  • Help People in Iran Reconnect to Signal – a Request to Our Community: Run a Signal Proxy
  • Core Lightning v0.12.1: A Few Bug Fixes and Build Improvements
  • Guide: Circumventing Tor Censorship in Iran and Elsewhere
  • Bitmatrix Releases Mainnet Beta Bringing Uniswap Functionality to Liquid
  • Research: Spatial Analysis of Global Bitcoin Mining
  • Details Released on FBI Raid that Resulted in $86M Worth of Property Seized from 1400 Safe Deposit Boxes in Beverly Hills
  • Australian Internet Provider 'Optus' Exposed Customer Data via API: Includes 4.2M Users' Passport and Driver’s License Numbers
  • BTCPay Server v1.6.11: Update POS App Through API, Adds Mempool.Space as Default Block Explorer, and More
  • Bitcoin Non-Profit Brink is Now Funding 11 Bitcoin, Lightning Developers in Total
  • Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led by Ten31
  • Bitcoin Policy Institute: Why the U.S. Should Reject Central Bank Digital Currencies
  • Hoseki Announces $25K Donation to Bitcoin Policy Institute for Transparency and Proof of Reserves Research
  • Bitcoin Optech #219
  • Blockstream Jade v0.1.38: Adds CompactSeedQRs
  • Electrum v4.3.2: Hardened build script for MacOS, Better Reproducibility, and More
  • Bitcoin Exchange 'Bitnob' Launches in Kenya: Includes Integration With the M-Pesa Network Enabling 50m Users to Easily Send and Receive via Lightning From Their Phones
  • Initial Code Release for Taro Protocol: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin
  • Matrix Chat Vulnerabilities Disclosed: Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
  • Swan Acquires Specter, Maintainers of the Open Source Software and Hardware Wallets of the Same Name: Launches Specter Labs
  • 'When Taproot' Launches to Encourage More Adoption Across Ecosystem
  • Cloudflare Announces Turnstile: a user-friendly, privacy-preserving free alternative to CAPTCHA
  • Michael Bazzell's Fourth Edition 'Unredacted Magazine' Includes a Bitcoin Privacy Section by ErgoBTC
  • Block's Decentralized Exchange Protocol Team 'TBD' Partners with Circle
  • Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f: New Collaborative Transaction UI, Auth47 Integration, and More