👉 Block 755459: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
- The Guatemalan Lake Town Mining Bitcoin With Used Cooking Oil
- Bitcoin Mining Hosting Provider Compute North Has Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in a Federal Court
- Help People in Iran Reconnect to Signal – a Request to Our Community: Run a Signal Proxy
- Core Lightning v0.12.1: A Few Bug Fixes and Build Improvements
- Guide: Circumventing Tor Censorship in Iran and Elsewhere
- Bitmatrix Releases Mainnet Beta Bringing Uniswap Functionality to Liquid
- Research: Spatial Analysis of Global Bitcoin Mining
- Details Released on FBI Raid that Resulted in $86M Worth of Property Seized from 1400 Safe Deposit Boxes in Beverly Hills
- Australian Internet Provider ‘Optus’ Exposed Customer Data via API: Includes 4.2M Users’ Passport and Driver’s License Numbers
- BTCPay Server v1.6.11: Update POS App Through API, Adds Mempool.Space as Default Block Explorer, and More
- Bitcoin Non-Profit Brink is Now Funding 11 Bitcoin, Lightning Developers in Total
- Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led by Ten31
- Bitcoin Policy Institute: Why the U.S. Should Reject Central Bank Digital Currencies
- Hoseki Announces $25K Donation to Bitcoin Policy Institute for Transparency and Proof of Reserves Research
- Bitcoin Optech #219
- Blockstream Jade v0.1.38: Adds CompactSeedQRs
- Electrum v4.3.2: Hardened build script for MacOS, Better Reproducibility, and More
- Bitcoin Exchange ‘Bitnob’ Launches in Kenya: Includes Integration With the M-Pesa Network Enabling 50m Users to Easily Send and Receive via Lightning From Their Phones
- Initial Code Release for Taro Protocol: Building the (Tap)Root of the World’s Financial Network with Bitcoin
- Matrix Chat Vulnerabilities Disclosed: Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2
- Swan Acquires Specter, Maintainers of the Open Source Software and Hardware Wallets of the Same Name: Launches Specter Labs
- ‘When Taproot’ Launches to Encourage More Adoption Across Ecosystem
- Cloudflare Announces Turnstile: a user-friendly, privacy-preserving free alternative to CAPTCHA
- Michael Bazzell’s Fourth Edition ‘Unredacted Magazine’ Includes a Bitcoin Privacy Section by ErgoBTC
- Block’s Decentralized Exchange Protocol Team ‘TBD’ Partners with Circle
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f: New Collaborative Transaction UI, Auth47 Integration, and More