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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 - Day 2 Livestream
Join experts, advocates, and innovators from around the world at this Bitcoin event in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 Conference - Day 1 Livestream
"Join us for an exciting event in the breathtaking city of Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the unique overlap between Bitcoin and the Parallel Institutions currently being built and deployed here."
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Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode
"We're mining around 4.5 EH - closing in on 1% of the network- with equipment in hand to ramp quickly to 8 EH," announced the company.
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Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses
Bitwise has become the first U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to publicly disclose its Bitcoin address holdings.
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Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider
"The unauthorized email impersonating Trezor using our domain addressed subscribers to our newsletter. No other data were compromised. We immediately restricted access to all unauthorized actors and are now contacting all affected users," Trezor said.
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OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support to René Pickhardt
"We are very excited to award a Long-term Support Grant to René Pickhardt, helping him continue his fundamental research on improving Bitcoin’s overall usefulness as a payment system through the Lightning Network."
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26+ Bitcoin Companies Sign a Letter to FinCEN Against Proposed Surveillance Rules
26 bitcoin companies signed a legal response to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FinCEN’s proposed rules that would seriously harm privacy by effectively prohibiting basic bitcoin best practices such as not reusing addresses and collaborative bitcoin transactions.
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Trezor Warns of Phishing Campaign Following Potential Support Contact Leak
"On January 17, 2024, the third-party support ticketing portal we use encountered unauthorized access. Potentially impacted data are limited to user emails and names/nicknames that contacted our customer support team."
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Tether Acquired 8888 BTC Late in Q4, Now Holds 66465 BTC
"Tether recently acquired an additional 8,888 bitcoins, increasing its total holdings to about 66,465 BTC. The current value of these bitcoins is about $2.8 billion," reported The Block.
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Bondo: The African Village Mining Bitcoin
"Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. Unlike in most places in this impoverished country, when night descends they can now switch on lights, stoves and televisions in their homes."
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New EU KYC/AML Rules to Impose Stricter Surveillance Measures on Users and Service Providers
The European Council and Parliament reached a provisional agreement that would cover 'most of crypto sector' and would require firms to conduct even more surveillance on their customers.
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Spiral Grants Support to Dan Gould and Esraa for Work on Payjoin
"70+ grants later, we have our first twofer. It goes to Dan Gould and Esraa, two devs working to improve PayJoin, which allows parties transacting in bitcoin to coordinate payments before posting to the blockchain without third-party intermediaries," Spiral announced.
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