Research
Learning From The LND Bug That Could Have Robbed The Lightning Network
A bug resulting in the stalling of LND and btcd nodes had minimal impact — but it could have been much worse.
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News
Two Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Obstruction of Justice in Scheme to Bribe U.S. Government Employee with $61000 in Bitcoin
Defendants Paid $61,000 in Bitcoin Bribes to Double Agent under the Control of the FBI to Obtain Internal Files and Other Non-Public Information Related to the Ongoing Investigation and Prosecution of Huawei.
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Research
Publicly Traded Bitcoin Mining Firms Account for 25% of Total Bitcoin Hash Rate: Up from 10% a Year Ago
This chart shows how the public miners’ hashrate share has steadily grown during the last year. The public hashrate first surged in January 2022 when Core Scientific, the world’s biggest bitcoin mining company by hashrate, went public. This number has since gradually increased, now sitting at 25%.
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Releases
Alby v1.18.0 Released: Adds Nostr Support
The Alby browser extension provides deep Lightning Network integration for websites.
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News
Hodlonaut Defeats Craig Wright In Norwegian Court Case: Judge Rules CSW is Unlikely to be Satoshi
“Against this background, the court believes that (Hodlonaut) had sufficient factual grounds to claim that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto in March 2019,” reads the transcript. “Wright has come out with a controversial claim, and must withstand criticism from dissenters.”
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Weekly Digest
Block 759518: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week.
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Releases
Impervious Browser Public Alpha Release for Linux and Mac
A Suite of Peer-to-Peer Tools for Communications, Data Transport, and Payments, Built Directly Into the Web Browser .
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News
Riot Announces 1 GW Mining Facility in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas
The Corsicana Facility’s total capacity of 1 GW has been approved by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (“ERCOT”). To the Company’s knowledge, this is the first 1 GW load ever approved by ERCOT.
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Releases
Bitcoin Optech #222
This week’s newsletter describes the block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND last week, summarizes discussion about a planned Bitcoin Core feature change related to replace by fee, outlines research about validity rollups on Bitcoin, shares an announcement about a vulnerability in the draft BIP for MuSig2, examines a
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News
Bitcoin Mining Council Members Represent 45.4% of Hash Rate Across Five Continents
The Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC), a voluntary global forum of Bitcoin mining companies and other companies in the Bitcoin industry, announced the findings of its third quarter 2022 (“Q3”) survey focused on three metrics: electricity consumption, technological efficiency and sustainable power mix.
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Releases
Echo v0.0.1 Released: Open Source Podcasting 2.0 Web Player That Uses Your Own Node
Uses newly released Lightning Node Connect (LNC) protocol to easily connect to your LND node.
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Releases
LND v0.15.3-beta Released: a minor release that contains mainly bug fixes, and contains no new database migrations
This release fixes a series of bugs related to fee estimation with taproot outputs/inputs, a bug fix to ensure new channels are always properly announced, and fixes an edge case related to zero conf channels.
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