Research
Research: Spatial Analysis of Global Bitcoin Mining
Global presence of Bitcoin mining activity. All mining locations detected (n = 6062) are mapped by their unique longitude and latitude coordinates.
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Releases
Bitmatrix Releases Mainnet Beta Bringing Uniswap Functionality to Liquid
Bitmatrix, an automated market maker (AMM) protocol, has released its mainnet beta which will enable bitcoiners to create their own liquidity pools and perform trust minimized swaps on the Liquid Network.
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Guides
Guide: Circumventing Tor Censorship in Iran and Elsewhere
A guide to using Tor if it is actively blocked by your internet provider.
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Releases
Core Lightning v0.12.1: A Few Bug Fixes and Build Improvements
This is a point release with a few bug fixes and build improvements: it's a recommended upgrade from 0.12.0, with no new features.
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Guides
Help People in Iran Reconnect to Signal – a Request to Our Community: Run a Signal Proxy
Signal is currently blocked in Iran. To help people in the country access Signal, consider running a Signal Proxy.
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News
Bitcoin Mining Hosting Provider Compute North Has Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in a Federal Court
Among Compute North's list of clients are some of the biggest bitcoin mining companies, including Marathon.
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News
The Guatemalan Lake Town Mining Bitcoin With Used Cooking Oil
Inspired by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, a town in Guatemala is focused on cleaning its lake by diverting used cooking oil to bitcoin miners.
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Weekly Digest
Block 755234: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
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News
BitGo Adds Lightning Support for Customers
BitGo focuses on bitcoin storage options for businesses and institutions.
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Releases
Specter Desktop v1.13.0: UX Improvements and Improved Dev-Console
* Feature: Improve Dev-Console #1850 (k9ert) * Feature: Menu extensions can extend menus #1648 (k9ert) * UIUX: Adding "Open Bitcoin app" verbiage to Ledger Upload Keys page #1868 (wombat6) * UIUX: Better balance display #1841 (relativisticelectron) * UIUX: Do not hide elements by default #1854 (relativisticelectron) * UIUX: Individual HWI progess for Ledger
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News
FTX in Talks to Raise Up to $1 Billion at Valuation of About $32 Billion
* Existing investors include Singapore’s Temasek, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/21/ftx-in-talks-to-raise-1-billion-at-valuation-of-about-32-billion.html archive: https://archive.ph/psxBw No Bullshit Bitcoin is funded by donations from our audience.
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Research
The Power of Valves for Better Flow Control, Improved Reliability & Lower Expected Payment Failure Rates on the Lightning Network
Valves are an important tool for flow control in fluid or gas networks. We investigate the possibilities to set up valves on the Lightning Network to improve flow control and reduce expected payment failure rates.
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