FDIC issues cease-and-desist letters to five companies, including FTX
* for false and misleading claims https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2022/ftx-harrison-letter.pdf
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News
Two Of Ukraine’s Largest Tech Retailers Now Accept Bitcoin
* retailers Techno Їzhak and Stylus now accept bitcoin online and in-store https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/two-large-ukrainian-tech-retailers-now-accept-bitcoin archive: https://archive.ph/KQqMQ
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News
Tether Releases Independent Auditor Report From Accounting Firm BDO
* total assets amount to at least US$ 66,409,619,424 * total liabilities amount to US$66,218,725,778 https://tether.to/en/tether-releases-independent-auditor-report-from-top-5-accounting-firm-bdo-reinforcing-its-dedication-to-transparency-and-revealing-another-major-cut-to-commercial-paper-holdings/ archive:
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News
Craig Wright Vs. Hodlonaut: A Timeline Of The Legal Battle
* On September 12, 2022, a seven-day trial will begin in Oslo, Norway between Craig Wright and the pseudonymous Bitcoiner, hodlonaut. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/timeline-of-hodlonaut-craig-wright-case archive: https://archive.ph/hFdrn
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Research
Lightning Channel Jamming Research
* the costs and impacts of jamming * potential solutions https://jamming-dev.github.io/book/about.html archive: https://archive.ph/qENv7
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News
Built With Bitcoin Completes Clean Water Project For 1,000 Nigerian Villagers
* provides the Igbaruku village with clean water, where the community previously had to travel miles to reach a contaminated water source https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/built-with-bitcoin-completes-water-well-project-in-igbaruku-nigeria archive: https://archive.ph/78Mxv
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News
Apple iOS Devices Don't Route All Network Traffic Through VPNs
* data leaves the iOS device outside of the VPN tunnel * apple has allegedly been aware of the issue for years https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/ios-vpns-still-leak-traffic-more-than-2-years-later-researcher-claims/ archive: https://archive.ph/yxgDG https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.
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Releases
Bitcoin Optech #213
* BLS signatures could be used to improve DLCs without consensus changes * Rust Bitcoin v0.29 and Core Lightning v0.12.0rc2 https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/17/ archive: https://archive.ph/MSBPH
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Research
Bitcoin Ekasi: The Township One Year Later
* modeled after Bitcoin Beach, a South African township attests to the opportunities of a bootstrapped bitcoin economy https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-ekasi-township-one-year-later archive: https://archive.ph/WszFL
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News
CoinCenter: What is and what is not a sanctionable entity in the Tornado Cash case
* by treating autonomous code as a “person” OFAC exceeds its statutory authority https://www.coincenter.org/analysis-what-is-and-what-is-not-a-sanctionable-entity-in-the-tornado-cash-case/ archive: https://archive.ph/mig2M
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News
Bitmain and Antpool Partner with Antalpha to Offer Low Cost Loans for Equipment and Resource Costs
* Bitmain and Antpool will provide proprietary data to the lender in order to evaluate risk https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitmain-antpool-antalpha-offer-bitcoin-mining-industry-lifeline archive: https://archive.ph/uLI7V
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News
US Bans Export of Tech Used in 3nm Chip Production
* rule will ban the export of two ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor materials, as well as some types of electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) technology and pressure gain combustion (PGC) technology https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/15/us_bans_3nm_exports/ archive: https://archive.ph/x7ayT
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