News
After a one-time setup on the app users can transfer between lightning wallets and M-Pesa without any further action by the recipient. They can choose to receive bitcoin or local currency.
Releases
* When creating new requests, reuse addresses of expired requests (fixes #7927). * Index requests by ID instead of receiving address. This affects the following commands: get_request, get_invoice, list_requests, list_invoices, delete_request, delete_invoice * Trampoline routing: remember routes that have failed. Try other routes instead of systematically raising
Releases
Firmware Update for Blockstream's Hardware Wallet.
Releases
* This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN nodes to advertise capacity-dependent feerates and announces a software fork of Bitcoin Core focused on testing major protocol changes on signet. Also included are our regular sections with summaries of popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements
News
As regulators and legislators place even more scrutiny on the Bitcoin economy, Hoseki is proud to support BPI's continued research, education, and advocacy.
Research
Central banks across the world are exploring the possibility of developing their own digital currencies, known as CBDCs. In this whitepaper, the authors make the most comprehensive argument against CBDCs to date: CBDCs will erode the distinction between America and authoritarianism.
News
The funding round was led by Ten31 and joined by new investors Washington University in St. Louis Endowment, University of Wyoming Endowment, and Susquehanna Investment Group.
News
The organization is moving part-time developers to full-time, reorganizing leadership for Bitcoin projects, and onboarding new developers into the ecosystem.
Releases
BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source bitcoin payment processor. It's secure, private, censorship-resistant and free.
News
A "senior figure" inside Optus said that an API for an Optus customer identity database was opened to a test network that "happened to have internet access."
News
According to the FBI “Only those who wish to hide their wealth from the DEA, IRS, or creditors would” rent a box anonymously at U.S. Private Vaults.
Research
Global presence of Bitcoin mining activity. All mining locations detected (n = 6062) are mapped by their unique longitude and latitude coordinates.
