👉 Block 793717: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
News
- Atomic Wallet Hack: At Least 1% of Users Affected, $35M+ Stolen, Surveillance Firm Elliptic Says North Korea’s Lazarus Group Responsible For The Hack
- Pete Rizzo’s Twitter Account Has Been Compromised
- Bcademy, Boltz, Equitas, JAN3, Maven and Mifiel Joined The Liquid Federation
- EU Study Calls for Additional Invasive Regulation via ‘Euro Wallet,’ Still Calls Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work Outdated Tech
- SEC Sued Binance and CZ For ‘Blatant Disregard of the Federal Securities Laws,’ Named Coins It Deemed As Securities
- Operation Triangulation: iOS Devices Targeted with Previously Unknown Malware
- El Salvador’s Volcano Energy Secures $1B in Commitments for 241 MW Bitcoin Mine
- SEC Sues Coinbase For Running Unregistered Securities Exchange, Brokerage and Clearing Agency
- SEC Moves to Freeze Binance.US Assets
- Chrome Update Addresses New Zero-Day Exploit
- Stakwork Pledged $180K For Bitcoin Development
- Riot Platforms Awarded Research Grant to Tobin C. Harding
- May 2023 Mining Ops Updates: Riot, Marathon, Core Scientific, Cipher, Stronghold, CleanSpark & More
- Amboss Launched LINER Index For Measuring Cost and Yield on The Lightning Network
- Bitcoin-Denominated Life Insurer Sets Up Shop with $19M Funding From Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI & Google’s VC Fund
- Rumor: Prime Trust Was On The Verge of Bankruptcy, Users Urged To Withdraw Funds From Exchanges
- BitGo Signed Letter of Intent to Acquire Prime Trust
- Vexl Foundation and Financial Tyranny Index Launched by SatoshiLabs
- Binance.US To Be Cut Off From The Banking System, Crypto.com Stops US Institutional Exchange
- DOJ Charges Two Russians For Attempt To Launder 647000 BTC Stolen From Mt Gox
Releases and Updates
- Seed Tool v2.1.0: Updated Styling and Bug Fixes
- TBD Launched Tech Preview of Web5 Verifiable Credentials Toolkit
- Parmanode v3.3.7: Electrum Desktop Wallet
- Satellite CDN: Scalable Media Hosting For The Nostr Ecosystem
- Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.51: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
- eNuts (Alpha): Mobile Cashu Wallet with Lightning Support
- Blockstream’s Greenlight - Scalable, Non-Custodial Lightning Infrastructure Is Now Open to Developers
- LND v0.16.3-beta: Mempool Optimizations & Bug Fixes
- Onyx: A Censorship-Free Fork of Amethyst
- Cashcrab: Cashu Wallet with Flutter UI
- BTCPay Server v1.10.2: Bug Fixes
- Lightning Terminal v0.10.1-alpha: Updates and Bug Fixes
- Musig Playground: Send BTC With Multiple People While Looking Like One Person
- Tor Browser v12.0.7 Released
- ZEBEDEE Integrated ZBD App with Nostr
- Lnprotest: Lightning BOLT Protocol Test Framework
- Fedi Launched First Ever Pop-Up Federation For BTC Prague Event
- GrapheneOS v2023060700 Released
- Strike Moved To Its Own Infrastructure, Rolls Out New Features and Capabilities
- MercuryLayer: A New Mercury Statechain Protocol
- Amethyst v56.4: NIP-89 Notes, Compressed Uploads & More
- Coracle v0.2.30: Mostly Maintenance
- Nunchuk iOS v1.9.26: Batched Transactions
- Electrs v0.9.14: Fixes and Updates
Guides and Research
- Miner Fee Gathering Capability: Out of Band Fees
- nsecBunker: How To Set Up Your Nostr Keys Management Fortress
- Bitcoin Optech #254: Using MATT to Replicate CTV & Manage Joinpools
- BIP for Silent Payments Is Out For Review
- A New Class of ECDSA Signature Vulnerability Observed in the Wild on the Bitcoin Blockchain