News
Elliptic’s analysis of the Bitcoin payments described in the criminal complaint provides insights into the use of BTC by Chinese intelligence officers. In particular, blockchain analytics reveals that China’s spies are using Wasabi Wallet to conceal their transaction trail.
Research
A bug resulting in the stalling of LND and btcd nodes had minimal impact — but it could have been much worse.
News
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.
Research
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%.
Releases
The Alby browser extension provides deep Lightning Network integration for websites.
News
“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.”
Weekly Digest
Important news of the week.
Releases
A Suite of Peer-to-Peer Tools for Communications, Data Transport, and Payments, Built Directly Into the Web Browser .
News
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.
Releases
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
News
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.
Releases
Uses newly released Lightning Node Connect (LNC) protocol to easily connect to your LND node.
