👉 Block 788553: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
News
- Hamas to Stop Accepting Bitcoin Donations Due to Privacy Risk for Donors
- Ohio Man Gets 4 Years For Sweeping Brother’s 712 BTC Subject To Forfeiture
- The Kingdom Of Bhutan Confirmed It Has Been Mining Bitcoin For Several Years
- First Republic Bank Seized, Sold to JPMorgan In Second-Largest U.S. Bank Failure
- Venmo Is Rolling Out Bitcoin Transfers to External Wallets
- BlueWallet Postpones Lightning Node Sunset Date to May 31
- ‘DM Reporter Bot’ Serves A Reminder About The Current State of Nostr DMs
- Ongoing Attack On I2P Network: Bitcoin Nodes Using i2pd Affected
- Samara Asset Group Donates $150,000 To Bitcoin Development, Commits For 3 Consecutive Years
- Coinbase Sued for Harvesting Customer Face and Fingerprint Data
- Balaji Forfeits $1M BTC Bet, Donates Additional $500k to Support Bitcoin Development
- Bitcoin Network Reaches New Transaction All-Time High As Fees Surge Due To BRC-20 Tokens
- Who Benefits From The New York Times’ Attacks on Bitcoin?
- Coinbase Launches Offshore Derivatives Exchange
- Biden Administration Proposes A 30% Tax on Bitcoin Mining
- Fedi Raises $17 Million in Series A Round
- Bhutan Plans a $500 Million Fund for Bitcoin Mining in the Himalayas
- Bitcoin Optech #249: MATT-based Vaults, Signature Adaptor Security Analysis
- Summer 2023 Bitcoin Industry Apprenticeship Program Announced
- You Can Buy a Hacked Credit Card for Only $15, A Verified Binance Account for $410, New Report Shows
- OpenSats Receives Additional Funding of $10M From Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall
- Binance Admits to Blocking Thousands of Iranian Accounts Needlessly Due To Sanctions
- US Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr Defends Bitcoin Mining
- North Carolina County Bans Commercial Bitcoin Mining For A Year
- Super Testnet Releases A Tool That Breaks Ordinals
- Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google & OpenAI, Leaked Document Claims
- Cash App Sold $2.16 Billion Worth of Bitcoin in Q1, Up By 25% Year Over Year
- India Banned 14 Messenger Apps Allegedly Used For Spreading Terror and Propaganda
- El Salvador’s Bill On Eliminating Taxes On Tech Innovations Signed Into Law
- Argentina’s Central Bank Bans Financial Institutions From Offering Bitcoin
- Popular Custodial Lightning Service Tippin.me May Be Exit Scamming
- Montana’s Right To Mine Bitcoin Bill Signed Into Law
Releases and Updates
- Swap Service: An Orderbook For Performing Submarine Swaps Over Nostr
- Shiro, A Web Wallet Compatible with RGB, Is Now Available on Umbrel
- Galoy Mobile v2.2.34 Released
- Amethyst v0.40.1: Highlighter Support, Global Media Feed, Amethyst v0.42.0: Private & Public Follow Lists
- Munstr: MuSig + Nostr
- Bisq v1.9.10: Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes
- GrapheneOS v2023042900 Released
- Nostr Web Client Primal Adds Search Functionality
- Zap Android Wallet Forked and Rebranded To BitBanana
- Stack Duo v1.0.5: PayNym Fixes
- Nayuta Wallet v0.1.7: Support For No Amount Invoices
- Zeus v0.7.5: New Camera, Payment Path View & More
- Lightning Terminal v0.9.2-alpha: LND Version Bump
- MyNode v0.3.16 Released
- AgoraDesk App v1.1.1: Design Improvements
- Feni v0.1.8: Cashu Wallet & Mint Implementation in Golang
- Alby Launches Nostr Wallet Connect, Now Available on Umbrel
- OstrichGram: A Chat Software for Nostr Network
- Stacker.News Launches Subs For Bitcoin & Nostr
- Nostr-tx-broadcast: Bitcoin Transactions Over Nostr
- nblog v0.4.0: New UI and Authors Page
- Parmanode v2.3.4: BTCPay with Linux Desktop
- Sphinx Relay v2.3.1 Released
- Kind3: Replace Your Nostr Follow List
- Blixt Wallet v0.6.7: Fee Estimation, Passphrases
- CalyxOS v4.9.0: May Security Update
- Ephemerelay: Nostr Relay That Doesn’t Care About The Past
- nostr-control: Talk To Your CLN Node Over Nostr DMs
- LNbits v0.10.5 Released (highly recommended update)
- Damus v1.4.3-20: Webp Image Support
- MicroStrategy Lightning Platform Introduced at MicroStrategy World
- Mercury Wallet v0.8.12 Released
- Electrum v4.4.2: Various Bug Fixes
- BlueWallet v6.4.3 Released
- Nostr Sovrn: Personal Nostr, Lightning & Email Addresses