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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden says his office was informed this summer that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is building a massive database with content seized from Americans’ cellphones at the border. Without warrants, the agency permits thousands of employees to search the database “for any reason."
Research
Technical analysis of mining behavior exhibited by an entity that is plausibly Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Over the past six months, agencies across the government have worked together to develop frameworks and policy recommendations.
Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
Releases
Fix compatibility issue with LND 0.15.1-beta The legacy Phoenix app on android used bit 50 for the trampoline feature bit, which has since been reused for zeroconf with a dependency on scid_alias. The legacy app now uses bit 148 instead. This fixes an issue that prevented the
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“The United States will continue to take strong actions to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes, atrocities and aggression,” said Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen.
Research
Blind patriotism encouraging further centralization of mining in America is a regulatory capture trap.
Releases
* Red Dirt Mining is proud to launch The Open Source Mining Calculator - the first bitcoin-denominated, open source mining profitability calculator. Miners can easily view and calculate profitability & cashflow in bitcoin terms. https://reddirtmining.io/calculator No Bullshit Bitcoin is funded by donations from our audience. Click here to
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* The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against ten individuals and two entities affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20220914 archive: https://archive.ph/8vWnP No
News
* LNMarkets is a no-kyc bitcoin exchange * Trading limit 5 times bigger: from 2 to 10 million satoshis (0.1 BTC) * Infrastructure is now hosted with Nodl Cloud rather than Amazon * Additional login option with Lightning Node Connect * New languages: Spanish & French * Simple transfers within different LNM accounts with Lightning
Releases
* Recaps the "Reduce bandwidth during initial headers sync when a block is found" Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Meeting * Covers code changes including: Bitcoin Core #25614, Bitcoin Core #25768, Bitcoin Core #19602, Eclair #2406, Eclair #2190, and Rust Bitcoin #1196 https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/14/
Research
* Taro is a proposed protocol that will allow the issuance of digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. * Taro assets can be fungible currencies such as stablecoins, or non-fungible, unique tokens such as NFTs or collectibles. * Taro assets can be transferred over the Bitcoin network, or instantly, at low cost and
