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MicroStrategy Added 155 BTC in October, Now Holds 158400 BTC
"Our commitment to acquire and hold bitcoin remains strong, especially with the promising backdrop of potential increased institutional adoption."
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Tether Q3 Attestation Show Highest Percentage of Cash & Cash Equivalent Reserves Yielding Close to ~$1Bn
Tether Q3 attestation reveals highest percentage of Cash & Cash Equivalent reserves, over $330M reduction in secured loans and $72.6Bn exposure in US T-Bills.
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Bitcoin Optech #275: Scripting Changes
"This week’s newsletter follows up on several recent discussions about proposed changes to Bitcoin’s scripting language. Also included are our regular sections..."
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Nostrasia 2023 Livestream - Day 1
Nostrasia is a free freedom conference, bringing together nostriches from different corners of the globe for conversations on everything nostr. It takes place in Tokyo and Hong Kong on November 1-3, 2023.
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WSJ, Elliptic Quietly Issued Small Corrections to Misleading Data
The Wall Street Journal and surveillance firm Elliptic have partially corrected their articles that overstated the extent to which Hamas and related militant groups have been funding their activities with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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GrapheneOS v2023103000: Infrastructure for Hardware Memory Tagging Support
GrapheneOS is an open-source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
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Fulcrum v1.9.3: Improved SynchMempoolTask Performance
Fulcrum is a fast and nimble SPV server implementation for Bitcoin written in modern C++. This version improves the performance of the SynchMempoolTask by over 3x.
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BitcoinDev.org: Bitcoin & Lightning Resources
"BitcoinDev.org is a community funded website created by Vortex with the sole purpose of on-boarding new developers into the bitcoin ecosystem."
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Padawan Wallet v0.12.0: Now In Spanish
Padawan Wallet is a testnet-only bitcoin wallet full of tutorials on how to use bitcoin wallets. Available on Android.
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Azteco Vouchers Now Available in Italy at 5000+ MrPay Locations
Azteco provides a way to buy bitcoin directly from corner shops and certain online retailers without having to provide ID or create an account.
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Torq v1.3.0: Refined Dashboard, Advanced Workflow Channel Filters & More
Torq is an advanced node management software that helps large lightning node operators analyze and automate their nodes.
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TBD, Circle, Linux Foundation Announced New Initiative for Decentralized Identity and Open Payment Standards
"Today, alongside Circle and The Linux Foundation, we’re opening the call for members to establish a new non-profit foundation focused on creating open source standards for digital identity, credentials and open payments."
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