Releases
Bitcoin Optech #220
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for new opt-in transaction relay rules and summarizes research into helping LN channels stay balanced.
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News
Arrested Tornado Cash Developer to Stay in Jail After Appeal Rejected: Property may be Seized and Auctioned
Alexey Pertsev, a Tornado Cash developer arrested in August by Dutch authorities over allegations of facilitating money laundering, is to stay in jail for at least another two months after his appeal was rejected.
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Releases
Fountain v0.5.1 - Autoplay Queue, Apple CarPlay, OPML Import & Performance Upgrades
An update featuring some of the most highly-requested features, along with bug fixes which bring improved performance and stability to the app.
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Releases
ZeroSync Utreexo Implementation in Development: Verify Bitcoin's Chain State in an Instant
ZeroSync allows to verify Bitcoin's chain state in an instant. No need to download hundreds of gigabytes of blocks. A tiny cryptographic proof suffices to validate the entire history of transactions and everyone's current balances.
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Weekly Digest
Block 755459: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
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Releases
Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f: New Collaborative Transaction UI, Auth47 Integration, and More
This is a big update with dramatic UI changes, new functionality, the release of a brand new feature, and improvements for our power users.
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News
Block's Decentralized Exchange Protocol Team 'TBD' Partners with Circle
We are supporting USDC with an eye on a number of use cases that make it easy for developers to build on top of Block’s tbDEX protocol and its Web5 decentralized identity platform.
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News
Michael Bazzell's Fourth Edition 'Unredacted Magazine' Includes a Bitcoin Privacy Section by ErgoBTC
This quarterly free magazine in PDF format allows you to digest all of the information on your time in polished written form. Possessing your own PDF copy of each issue allows offline reading without distraction and easy archiving.
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Releases
Cloudflare Announces Turnstile: a user-friendly, privacy-preserving free alternative to CAPTCHA
Anyone, anywhere on the Internet, who wants to replace CAPTCHA on their site will be able to call a simple API, without having to be a Cloudflare customer or sending traffic through the Cloudflare global network. Sign up here for free.
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Releases
'When Taproot' Launches to Encourage More Adoption Across Ecosystem
A rich resource that helps bitcoin developers support and keep track of Taproot adoption.
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News
Swan Acquires Specter, Maintainers of the Open Source Software and Hardware Wallets of the Same Name: Launches Specter Labs
It is important to us that the Specter project remains open source. Swan will provide engineering support and some product direction. Specter’s open source desktop project does not, and will not have any default network connections to Swan or customer identification (KYC) features.
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Releases
Matrix Chat Vulnerabilities Disclosed: Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
These vulnerabilities have now been fixed, and we have not seen evidence of them being exploited in the wild. All of the critical vulnerabilities require cooperation from a malicious homeserver to be exploited.
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