👉 Block 832000: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
News
- Coinbase Donates $3.6M to Fund Open Source Bitcoin Developers
- Coinbase Commerce Merchant Payment Processing Platform No Longer Supports Bitcoin
- El Salvador Ex-Security Adviser Who Accused Ruling Party of Corruption Dies in Custody
- Julian Assange Appeals in Most Important Press Freedom Case in the World
- Judge Set to Rule on Assange Extradition Previously Acted for MI6 Whose Activities Were Exposed by WikiLeaks
- ECB Reports Record Loss for 2023, Publishes Another Hit Piece on Bitcoin
- Citrea Raised $2.7M Seed Round to Launch Bitcoin’s First ZK Rollup
- Nigeria Blocks Access to Bitcoin Exchanges in Desperate Bid to Control The Price of Plummeting National Currency
- EIA to Temporarily Suspend Bitcoin Miner Survey After Lawsuit
- Ethiopian Sovereign Wealth Fund to Start Mining Bitcoin Under a ~$250M Preliminary Agreement
Updates and releases
- Bitcoin Tribe v2.4.0: Testnet Support for RGB Assets
- Samourai Dojo v1.23.0: Updated Estimator API, Mempool Persistence & More
- BlueWallet v6.5.4: Fixes & Optimizations
- Lightning Loop v0.27.1-beta: Automatic Sweeping of Incorrectly Deposited Amounts
- Fedimint v0.2.2: Recommended Bug Fix Release
- Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.11: UX Overhaul, Add Multiple Wallets & More
- Amethyst v0.84.3: NIP-49 & NIP-92 Support, Community & Public Chat List Events
- Primal Android v0.93.2: Support for On-chain Transactions, Unified QR & More
- Hack0: Open Source Plug-and- Play Bitcoin Node for Vendors
- Signal Introduces Usernames and Phone Number Privacy
- Braiins Pool Introduces Lightning Payouts
- Cashu-Address.com Moves to Npub.cash, Integrates NIP-46
- JoinMarket v0.9.11: Wallet Performance & RPC API Improvements
- Foundation Passport v2.3.0: Full Taproot Support, SeedQR Export & More
- Bitkey Shares Code for Firmware, Mobile App, Server & Hardware Schematics
- COLDCARD Q v0.0.6-beta: Source Code Is Now Public
- Electrum v4.5.3: Fixes and Improvements
- Lightning Terminal v0.12.3-alpha Released
- Aqua Wallet v0.1.30: Botev Mode
- Mutiny Wallet v0.5.9: Startup Speed Optimizations
- Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0: Swaproot & Quiescence
- Primal iOS v1.2.44: On-chain Wallet, Video Uploads & More
- WikiFreedia: Wikipedia Proof-of-Concept on Nostr
- Satcom v0.1.0: Nostr Login Support
- BitBanana v0.7.5: VPN Automation
- Semaphore.Finance Added Lightning Support
- Superposition and Note Duel: DLC Experiments on Nostr
- LNbits v0.12.2: Fixes & Improvements
- Marathon Launched Slipstream Service for Non-Standard Bitcoin Transactions
- Amboss Reflex: Compliance Tool for Lightning Businesses